Good morning. Hello. Can you hear me? Very warm welcome to DrupalCon Vienna. It's been amazing. So this is the first time in this continent I am here as speaker as well as attending DrupalCon. I'm Rakesh James. My co-speaker is Vicky and she is the official general of migration module in Drupal 8. As well as I have Maxi with us. Maxi, can you stand? Maxi is one of the migration contributors. Yeah, always we have and just also with us. Release manager. So it's what we're going to do with the sessions. Just want to introduce you guys how to migrate to Drupal 8. I would love to know how many of you are working with Drupal 8 now? Started working with Drupal 8. Okay, cool. It's good numbers. I mean like, yeah, previously done, it's very less numbers. Yeah, it's, I want to say if you are still working with Drupal 7, it's easy. You can directly, if you want to do it with Drupal 8, you can directly go and start migrating it. You don't need to worry about anything. Only you need to take a couple of clicks. Then it will migrate. I will show you how to do that. Sorry. Okay. So these are the contents we are going to talk about it. First is migration modules are in Drupal 8 core. Then D7 to D8 migration. Migrating from CSV data. Just on our CSV data, comma-separated values. If you get data in comma-separated values, how to do migration and source plugins and process plugins and how to use migration modules through Drush modules. I would like to know how many of you guys migrated 6 to 7? How you guys migrated? Anyone, please? Feeds module? Yes. I mean, so we're looking forward to how the Feeds module Drupal 8, anyway. Again, anyone else used a migration class? Yes. Again, there is another way of importing, not import, as well as not import modules are there. You can easily migrate it. But for now, you don't need any more modules. Technically speaking, if you know a little bit about developing, you can directly go and use the CSV data to migrate. Let's check out what are the core modules, what are the contributor modules involved with the migration process. Migrate module and migrate Drupal UA. That is a core module that originally ships with Drupal 8.x. So you don't need to download any of these modules. And you can download the modules who may be added in future. Not sure about that. Yeah, but can be. Migrate plus and migrate tools and migrate upgrade as well as migrate source CSV. I'm just going to say how to process the CSV data to migrations. Till now, any questions? I would like to have an interactive session because of it's sort of difficult session. I'm taking this as a third time. It's all when lot of problems and like it was in Baltimore, it's when we try to do it in a workshop. Whatever you're not understanding, just raise the hands, we stop and we discuss, then we'll go forward. So these are the modules available. And you can download those contributor modules through Drash or console, anything. Yeah. So when you want to do a D7 to D8 migration, what do you need to take care of it? Obviously, you need to have the instance D8 installed in your system. And you need to have this migrate, migrate Drupal, migrate Drupal UI module installed. Then you need to run the migrate upgrade module as well. The four modules, you can start using it. Then you will go to the configuration for the migrate upgrade. You will get this kind of page. It's very straightforward. You can see what all the database you are using it, what all the database you're going to use it. And if it is where it is getting hosted and what is a database name, it's very straightforward. This is you'll get the UI part in D8, this UI. Then click, it's update. That's all you need to do it D7 to D8. But still, there is a lot of critical issues around tall critical issues as tricemen and in tricenaut. We welcome you all to come and work with the migrate issue queues. Any help, Maxi or Vicky or me or Adam or just any, come to the code sprint room. Ask any of us like we can help you. If that tall issue is more than tall, I think if we spend for another six months in a very brute force, I think it will be easy for any one of you or me. Can symbol clicks, can be migrate from seven to eight. One more thing you want to add it. This should be the last, most upgrade you are doing it manually. That's what dry says in the notes. So if you do seven to eight migration, that when your nine comes, triple nine comes, you don't need to do anything. I hope you all see that slides, drys are presented in Baltimore. There will be, have you ever find it deprecated in your coding? Drupalite coding? It's called deprecated. How many of you have heard that? Deprecated system, it still supports and it will be removed in future, but it will support with the current system. Okay, I'm not changing the topic. So D7 to D8 migration is just like this. So there's some changes on this form as well where at the top, which you can't see, you have to choose Drupal six or seven as your source. That's quite simple. It's just a little click. And also for the source files, you can set, it now accepts both your public and your private files. Yeah, adding one more thing. You can be here. Yeah, adding one more thing. The same way you can do the eight migration, six to eight migration also. There is not much difference. How many of you guys are still working with the Drupal six? It's okay. I think it's, it's not a, it's not a big problem. Yeah, I started with the Drupal six and I saw all those changes of entity. Then when I come, D7, I need to study this. Then I came to here. Oh, I need to study a lot of things. It's, it's, it's okay. It's totally okay.  In fact, you don't need to know object oriented program. If you want to be a builder side now. I would say if you want to build a multi-lingual site is far easier than D6 and D7. You don't need to do anything else. Like you don't, you don't need to do install a multi-lingual sites or multi-lingual modules or download any of this. D8 is very easy. I want to say that. Same way you can do the D6 to D8 migration same screen. You need to do what are the versions like a database as well as the where is getting hosted all the stuff getting updated. Then you need to do it. So moving forward, we're going to find out how to migrate other legacy systems. Anybody who works on, I personally worked on call fusion, migrated call fusion website to Drupal eight two times. I mean, one is a normal website. Other one is Drupal eight commerce. I migrated to Drupal eight commerce actually. How many of you guys familiar with this? That first block is CSV file. Yeah, you want to have a question? Please. Asking questions. No problem. Yeah. The first one is block is CSV files, comma, separated values. First one is IDs, the one, two, three. The second column is titles and third column is the body. So in these slides, we have a second block is the dot YML file. Excuse me. Dot YML files. We have a three process. There are three things involved. Three, actually, technically is three process. When you have a migration, you need to have a source where the data is placed. And you need to have a processor. And so you process the data for your purpose in the eight, like how it has to be placed. Then there is a destination. So three way. First is first is source, then process and destination. You can see the source, process and destination. So in the source, you are saying which is the CSV file you're going to migrate it. From where is the data is placed? Where is your CSV files are placed? Yeah, you can give an absolute path as well as the relative path. And the second one is process. Process use, do all the mapping. Remember, you guys use the fields module and do the field mapping. Not in both modules, we do the field mapping also, right? The same way, we can map the fields, what are the things, title is, title is, what is the CSV columns as well as the body. And we can create what is the type. There is a process plugin. I will come to that. And then destination. Destination, I say I am going to create a node. I'm going to create article. So from this CSV file, I'm going to create node. That's what these slides, like this process do. Any questions till now? Yeah. I'd like to add a tidbit there in that it can be tempting when you're writing a process plugin to do more than processing. Like you want to do something in the destination. And in fact, in one of the contrib modules, there is a thing to generate an entity during the process. But that has lots of bad things around it. And it's dealing with simple things here. So I won't go into all that. I just want to point out that if you're getting into writing these things, remember this process. This is just about changing the data you've provided it into something else. Nothing more. Okay. And then your destinations tend to be quite simple. Like as you can see, that's the destination for entity node. That's it. The rest of it is handled by the core migrate. If you look in core, there are very few destinations in the other modules. And they're all quite simple. So if you find you're making a destination plugin that's complex, stop and think about it and seek some support. Come to meet us in Drupal Migrate. Process. All these are plugins. The three steps I told you. It's getting so much light. Sorry. Source, process and destination. Three of them are plugins. So what is the basic idea of plugins? All of you guys know. You can plug and play. How many of you are familiar with plugins? Okay. So let me tell you this example. So you have a fan. You have a lot of plugs around this room. You can plug anywhere and it will work. What is according to work? Correct. It plugs to the where it has to be. It has to become for the electric and you can plug it wherever you want. And it play according to that. So plugins is like that. You can extend. You can create your own fan and plug it anywhere also. It sort of rotates. The fan still works. That's why the plugins play. Plugins work. So three of them are the plugins. We're going to explain you what is a source plugin and what is a process plugin. This I will show you in a developer perspective with an online demo. We'll show you how to do that also. So this is the easiest way to migrate from any kind of... You're getting any kind of WordPress or anything. Any data. Get that value. Get that data into the comma-separated values. And just write this YML file. Then you can import into the Drupalite very easily. Yeah. This is a source plugin. You can see the right hand of this slide that is the XML files. And the left side is the source plugin we've written for how to read these XML files. The left side is the YML file for reading this XML file. It's pretty straightforward. You... It's already... You don't need to write any of this code. It's already there. It's already there in Drupalite. I just want to explain you. So there it's... Source plugin is written and says... Where is the path? The source... The plugin says the URL... From the URL we're going to pass it. And say URL is... This is the URL. And the data feature we say... It's HTTP. And then the password we say XML. It's straightforward. And say item selector slash nodes, slash nodes. Then we say what are the things we need to map it? We say the fields come name, label, selector. It's the page title and title and body. So this is a source plugin. If you have a custom table, suppose like you have a set of data in a MySQL table. And how you can easily write a source plugin for that. Or you have a different way of data is processed. You can write a source plugin for that and get it migrated. Or you can give online streaming data and you can migrate to the system. It's... You don't need to worry about it. All these codes are available. There is a lot of examples available in the code itself. Migrate examples. You can look at that code and you'll see to find out how to do it. So this is a source plugin. Source plugin, when it's getting created, XML is already there. And JSON is already there. And CSV is already there in Drupal ecosystem. If any data present in any other way, if you want to... If you feel like, okay, I need to have it in a source plugin. So just write it all. And one more thing. If you have any piece of data that can be converted in the CSV, that is very easy way of migrating the data from other system to your local system. We're gonna talk about next, process plugins. Yeah, a process plugin is basically we are using for... We use the feeds module, right? All of you guys, I think, used feeds module. Suppose you get data, however, you need to migrate an address. So address comes generally like street numbers and address line two is comma separated just like that in a single row. But when you're going to the system, it has to be placed in a proper way. Or let's say you have a user migration, you are doing it. You have a first name and last name. But you have a field called full name. So it will attach first name and last name together, right? That is what the process plugin we have written here. So if you think about the Drupal 7 site, you use the tampering force feeds module for particular field, how it should behave it, how it should read the data from the source file and how it should get imported in Drupal. So those part, you're processing it here. So you can see this. This is the class you written process plugin class. In the right side, it's written. It's a process plugin class. In the left side, it is the YML file. You're going to migrate from the YML dot YML through the configurations. I will show you how to do that. Yeah. Let me explain this process class. And you can see that in the process class, it's say full name and class name. And you have the annotations for what should be the ID, migration process ID. Then you get a function called transform. Transform is the method that allow you to tamper the fields. You can make your own fields how should be appeared. Suppose you want to split the fields. I mean, split the data. You're getting a raw data straight one, two, three together. You can split it with a comma-separate, explode it or implode it. That's what we're doing it. Here, we're going to get the first name and last name. You can see that. And we're returning it together as a single field. So in the left side, you can see in the field full name, are you able to see the field full name? The field full name, you say the plug-in name is called full name. And source is the unique ID what is generally passing it. That has to be present. Don't matter what source. You can check out the full name. That full name will close, call this class, migration process class, and say, check for the first name and last name and concatenate together and return back. That's what process plugin does. Any questions still on? Okay. So the bit there about the process plug-in and the example provided of the full name process plug-in. In core, there's a whole bunch of existing process plug-ins. So if you look in the core migrate module, you'll see a bunch. And there's simple things in there like concat. Just a concat two fields. There's extract to pull something out of an array. It comes to mind. And then there's some more tricky ones. Like... Oh, it changed its name. Hang on. Migration lookup. So more advanced won't go there. I'm just saying there's more advanced ones in there as well. And it's worth a read of the APIs to find out the ones that you need.  So I will show you how the process plug-in works also. Yeah. Next one is what is the Drush modules help us to do it? So we need to find out how it's get runs. So when you're installing Drush modules, then migrate tools you need to install. Once you install migrate tools, modules, that will allow you to give these Drush commands. The first Drush commands give you an option to check the status of the migration files. Then you can see the import. Then you can roll back that one if you're not happy with that. Then you can stop it. Then you can reset it. And you can find out the migration messages. What is a message happen if there is an error happens or those stuff. This is the basic commands you need to understand when you're doing the migrations. Yeah. Okay. Let's do a... Any questions still now before demoing it? Yeah, please. Can you please repeat the question? So you want to migrate from six to eight? Seven to eight. Okay. That still works, actually. Okay. I will show how this has to be hands-on, but I didn't get the time. So this already is working. Let me show this. So this is your D7 site. This is your DH site. You need to go to this path slash upgrade. Then I... I told you this... This UI getting it? Seven to eight? Yeah. So you give the database name and you give the host if it is a local host, if you can do it in an online also you can do. When you click on upgrade, you'll get what all the things you need to get upgraded. Okay. When you click on upgrade, you'll see this bar. This is your happening in D8 site. Ten minutes later. It takes some time, okay? Trust me, it takes some time. So all the contents from that site is migrated here. This is a seven to eight migration. You need to do it. Yeah. Can you please come to the mic so that everyone can hear you? So it will help to others also. If you have questions, please come forward. We'll do the process plug-in migration demo also. Yeah. So my name is Marco. I'm from the Dialogue Schmiede here in Vienna. And my question is... So basically when I'm migrating custom modules from my functionalities that I need from Drupal 7 to Drupal 8, I'm basically needing the slides you showed before with the status messages and all these basic status things. That's my question. Thank you. Thank you for asking the question, Marco. It's a good question. All of you asked this. Even when I started, I also has it. I would like to say all of the contributed modules we are trying to getting into the migration upgraded. And custom modules can do the upgrade one by yourself. The content actually we're getting migrated through the migration process. After that, if you want a very particular functionality better do upgrade a module upgradation module that will give you the overview what all the things you need to change as hooks or if it is hook underscore menu that is converted into the menu.links.yml files. If you have a very particular process better those custom areas you can develop by yourself. Majorly migration we meant for the data migration first and custom module migration you need to upgrade first then you need to work on those specific functionalities. Yeah. That is the only part you need to do it but rest of the everything as possible even the translation also we're trying to get it. It's take if you do it very manually it will take three or four months to do it but if you do it in this way how much time you needed maybe one hour? Three hours? Thank you. Yeah. Just to clarify the policy on what we migrate in core anything that's in core we migrate but if it's a contributed module like paragraphs it's a responsibility of the paragraph maintainers to write the migration for that. Just just a quick question on multi-lingual content is it possible using the current multi-lingual content is it possible using the current migration tools to migrate multi-lingual content? Yes. It's a very good Maxime is probably the best one for this but it's mostly Ah! Yeah. Maxime can come and answer for that question. Come. My first thing that comes to mind is to read the known issues page about migrate there's a known issues pages but a lot of the translations are done but I don't know the nuances of it that's why I'm pausing. Please come here. The nodes from Drupal 6 and Drupal 7 to Drupal 8 are migrated there's still some work to be done like with menu items blocks and other things but it's hard to find people to work on them because you have to be able to know the multi-language system and the migrate system so it's kind of tricky issues but we're working on that. And I will gladly say that I'm sadly monolingual so I've had to learn Drupal 6 and 7 translation stuff enough to write patches so please come join us if I can do it so can you. Yeah. When you migrate all the tables including the content types so when you want to start working with the new Drupal 8 you can start adding content to the same content types. So I think you say can you repeat the question once again? Yeah. When you migrate from 7 to 8 using the migrate does it migrate also the content types? It's content types and the fields too. So this you have is automatically created here too. So then you can just start using adding new content without a problem. So it's just run this click click click it's everything translated there. I mean, yeah. Yeah, please go. In your example it's pretty simple content structures but what if I have like a more complex architecture with node references and categories, taxonomy tags how do you, is it possible right now in the state of the current API to handle all these relationships? Thank you. Yeah, entity reference are we having it. You have a taxonomies you can have it. If you have a lot of level of taxonomies you need to do a process plugin. If you have a lot of taxonomies and a lot of very high level architecture. So you would have to program a plugin, a specific plugin. Yeah, I will show you that. But it's possible, right? And just another quick question you said it can take some time. Yeah. What would be an estimate for like 4,000 nodes for example? 4,000, it's a lot of things in factor actually. So if you run it in an 8GB RAM system or 16GB or 32GB RAM system that is also factor. If you have a heavy system a good system and also we cannot have that exact times. Like a ranch like half an hour to two hours. You need to give your time.  A little time. It won't break. I'm sure because I've done that it won't break but you need to be a little patient. Come on, you can be patient because it's not asking you to do it a couple of months patients. Maybe a couple of hours. That's okay. Okay, thanks. Also with those Drosch commands you can tell it just to do a couple. There's some fields you can send. Yeah, please. Yes. I have a question. Could you give us a workflow of multi-lang site in Drupal 6 but this site is not updated so it's not using the last version of Drupal 6 and it has also custom models. Cool. Thank you. You want to upgrade this is what I understand. I'm sorry, I'm making it. You have a Drupal 6 site in Drupal. Correct. You want to update to Drupal 8. Is that you want? 7 or 8, yes. No, don't do it with anything you don't need with 6 to 7. Directly go and do it with the 6 to 8. D6 to D8. No D6 to D7. D6 to D8. If you're doing it that is very correctly, that will be good. So after that you need to create your own modules, check the deprecated ones has to be removed and you keep doing it. It will be Drupal 9. When Drupal 9 comes your site is also automatically updated and upgraded. So what I'm telling 6 to 8, not 6 to 7. Coming back to your question. Yeah. 1145. 20 minutes. Okay. 6 to 8 migration with a multilingual. Actually we are not very much capable, but still we are capable. Yeah, some of the things if it is not you want it in a very direct way of this one maybe a little bit breaks you will get it. All the nodes it will migrated the couple of taxonomy or entity reference. We are working on the same plugins. So 6 to 8 migrations, translations. Excuse me. The translation it has to be work little more issues are there. We are working on it. Always welcome. Anyone wants to speed up the stuff come on issue queues are one of the good initiative and be very proactive come on ask questions or what you are doing it anyone you can find anyone of us or you can find Lucas or Adam or Maxie quite one or anyone like find out they will be answering your questions as well as. Just a second in regards to the roadmap if you have the old D6 you really do need to upgrade it to the latest because obviously we can't support every version of D6 and all the modules. So start with that lovely task and then move on. The D6 translation migrations are further along than the D7 ones. So. The migration of translations in D6 is further along than the translation migrations in D7. Hi, I've got a real quick question. On one of your first slides you showed the migration form and you could select MySQL, MariaDB or equivalent. Is Postgres considered an equivalent because it wasn't on the list otherwise? Have you included Postgres basically? That's a good question actually. I think it's work but I'm not done yet and definitely I'm going to take it forward that one. We'll discuss that. Thank you for asking that. Really appreciate it. Totally agreeing it. Totally agreeing it. We'll be doing that. I do know there were some issues that some stuff way back wasn't working with Postgres and I thought it was all fixed and it could just be an anomaly that it's not up there. So, yeah. Thank you. Yeah, please. Hi, I'm Takim. I'm working in a digitalist group from Sweden. I have two questions. The first one is that I have a D7 site where I have content in the taxonomies like taxonomy with different fields and in D8 hello. Yeah, please. I have a D7 site where I have a taxonomy with a lot of fields and in D8 I move it to content type with fields. Can I migrate the taxonomies into the content types in D7 D7 to D8? Repeat me once again, please. I have a taxonomy with a lot of fields in the D7 but the same thing I have in D8 but as a content type. You already create the two systems then you need this data from there to there. So, better you get it in a CSV file and do it. Otherwise, you need to incremental migration that can cause a little problem for you but it's better you can have it in a CSV file and I'm going to show that how to migrate a CSV file to D8. So, in the CSV plugin I will map it with the fields which I want. Yeah, I'll show you. I'm going to demo this what we told the process plugin as well as the how to create a data migrated data from CSV. So, this is a fresh Drupal 8 site. You need to go and install migrate module and you need to migrate plus and you need migrate CSV and migrate tools. So, once you install this modules yeah, you install this module yeah, I am having a let's do this. I have a CSV file yeah, this is a CSV file. Can you see it? I'm going to show you how to make it bigger in area. Sorry. This anyway, anyone know how to make it bigger? It's not work. Please come. No, okay. Anyway, this is if you can. It's not working. Okay, no problem. I think this is the first block, that same CSV file, I'm keeping it there. And I have a YML file this is my YML file. Once you install this module you need to go here in the configuration and you need to go to the configurations and you need to import it single import group is migration you're going to say see you can see before is there any there is no users present now we have the users already in the CSV file I kept that in a CSV folder here you can see I'm taking the absolute path and this is my YML file presenting here and this is my absolute path and you can see the path I'm giving it. This is my absolute path for the CSV file I have done and in the CSV file there is a column called name, email, roles same as I'm mapping with the file name I added I need to add the first name and last name then I need to add the last name then one more field I need to add that is that is the full name so I made sure that those fields are added and we need to import this CSV file and then you go to the terminal just type migration status ms-ms you can see one CSV unprocessed no no I didn't I didn't import it actually you can see this I'm going to import it so I'm going to import it now it's not imported it now I'm just checking the migration status I'm just checking the file ID is called CSV the same ID you given here CSV that is the ID you getting hit here group in the group CSV then you say there is an idealist status is ideal there is three rows of data are there and it's not imported it's not unprocessed so I'm going to use drashmi that is called drashmigration there are three files are created and you can see three files are created three users are created this is how it is if you want to roll back so you got some mistakes suppose like you found the dummy user name there is no first name last name so sorry it's not working sorry so if you want to roll back you created those three files you found some mistake you can roll back through same ID you can give it's rollback so when you go here it's rollback so it's easy to do the migration to and fro it's easy to get updated so any questions? so I saw that you are using drash to migrate I was following the official documentation it was saying to use Composer to install drash and it was installing the nine version but the first command fails because it wants the eight version so which version of drash is recommended drash to use situation of drash use drash eight drash eight above drash eight is works but not drash nine drash nine also works mine is drash nine I use drash nine you can see it's a drash nine you can see that it's a drash nine there is a really interesting page somewhere about drash it must be in the drash stock somewhere which might answer your question and it's a really clear description of which one to use and just for the recording with the gentleman the gentleman is going to use the microphone again with installing drash via Composer it all depends on we've installed drash if you've got drash eight in global and then you've installed drash nine in your projects, in your local project then it all depends on which one is running and there can be some conflicts between what's in your vendor stuff and what's in your global and what you're running so you've got to make sure that those two are aligned Yeah so I have two drash running on my system which is let me see you can see this is my d8 drash drash version eight so I got this conflict sometimes so because I need a Drupal 7 so drash nine won't work with a Drupal 7 so I installed this separately and created areas for this drash eight and using it said this is my drash eight yeah if you can see run this it will still work still is created one more question about migrating modules so it is recommended in the documentation to install all modules that you have in the Drupal 7 sites on the Drupal 8 before the migration so you go all this process let's say and eventually there is no more migration path so there is no added value if the modules do not have a migration path so is there a way to know that beforehand if the module has a migration somehow so you save the time of installing everything what is the question so the question is about determining beforehand before you enter all the data and waiting for it to decide what's available is to know what modules have an upgrade path a migration a path the answer is that anything that's in core any modules that have moved into core does have one or it's in the process has some bugs if it's not you actually have to go and look at the module itself look at their own documentation it's their responsibility to do it I can say that address field does have one I looked therefore I knew so if you have a lot of modules that could be difficult for you my question is related to that because you rightly pointed out that if it's a contrib module then it's the responsibility of the contrib people to deal with it but what happens if it's contrib in D7 it's core in D8 obviously the biggest one here is views is there any process even if it's an import rather than a migration for views there's two parts in that the first part is that if it was a contrib module in D7 in D8 because it's core in D8 it has a migration path except for views views is unique, challenging and it is documented in the known issues that it's just way too difficult except to rebuild them in D8 from scratch yes and the general consensus if I remember the discussion correctly with the other core migrators was generally you'd want to do that anyway because so much other things have changed and you might want to improve things and the views it has a UI so it's accessible you don't need a developer to do it yes please so my question is about the specific use case where you have a D7 site which is being used and you have a D8 site on the side where you would like to have the same content flowing into so it's kind of a rolling thing my question is do you think migrate is the right tool to use in that case or is there any other possibilities that would work better in your opinion can you once again you have two sites close to the mic please two sites one is the D7 site that people are using and adding content to all the time and then you have this D8 site which is basically on the side where you would like to have the same content flowing into you know on a rolling you can do it with the web service all the time do it with the web service you can do the same thing because you wanted to in 8 as well as in 7 right sorry I'm having a bit of a hard time maybe we can talk a little 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We're just so glad that it worked out and our musicians are here with us. I want to make a few mentions before I introduce the bands. I want to thank Montpelier Alive for the equipment lending. I work for Montpelier Alive. This event is partially funded by Montpelier Alive. And I also want to thank the Parks and Recs and Recreation and Alec Ellsworth for having us here and at the tuning fork stage. He had a wonderful concert series. He and his team called the Parka Palooza this summer. So maybe some of you have come to that. We're just really grateful for what they've created here for us and all the other wonderful events that happen throughout the summer. I also want to thank Le Bon Crippe for coming here and vending. It's nice to have that element a part of this festival day. And of course Dana Robinson who has agreed to do sound for us today. So let's hear it for all of those wonderful supporters. And a huge shout out to all of our volunteers. We had about 10 volunteers working throughout the day to make this happen. I definitely couldn't have done this without them. So I hope now they can take a break and sit and enjoy the music with you. So let's thank our volunteers with another round of applause. I really, really care about those volunteers. I am first introducing tonight Jake Blunt who is joining us from Providence, Rhode Island. I heard about Jake through the threads of the old time community. He is an up and coming but beyond that rising star amongst banjo players in the nation and soon the world I am sure. He has been discovered by apparently I just heard Rolling Stone magazine. Is this correct Jake? Yes. He has an album coming out on Smithsonian Folkways in September that he'll tell you more about. He has another album called Spider Tales that he is going to be selling here. And he's been on tour a lot. Newport Folk Festival recently. Is that right too? Yes. I did some reading. Jake is a wonderful banjo fiddle guitar player and singer. So he's going first and that will be followed by Nadine Landry and Sammy Lind of Foghorn String Band who has come to the Spice On Snow Festival a couple of times in the past in a couple of different iterations, different bands. We've really enjoyed them so much. We invited them back as a duo and they live in Quebec only about 10 hours away but we're really happy that they came to join us too and they're going to be playing old time Cajun and Quebecois music for you. So let's hear it for our musicians today and welcome them to Montpelier, Vermont. Thank you all for coming out. Enthusiasm. My name is Jake. I am from Providence, Rhode Island. This is my second time playing up here in Montpelier. I love it here. It's so pretty. I played at Zen Barn last fall. And that was a hoot. And I was really bummed that this didn't work out in the winter so I'm glad that we finally made it here. Triumph, despite the circumstances. Just a little bit curious to take instruments back to the place they come from and see how they respond to the climate shift. Which is less dramatic now that I live in Rhode Island but I've spent most of my life in Washington, DC which is different and not desirably so at this time of year. I have to say. I'm enjoying the cool evenings. And if you are maybe newer to old-time music you may not be aware that oftentimes this music involves different tunings according to the key or sometimes just the individual song. It doesn't usually involve electric guitars but you know you got to make things work in the tradition. So I have to retune everything in front of a lot of people. As Katie mentioned I have a new record coming out this fall. It's coming out September 23rd on Smithsonian Folkways Recordings as part of their African American Legacy series. It's called The New Faith and came out of me reading a lot of Afrofuturist sci-fi and thinking about what climate change will do to this music that we play and the places that we play it. And this is one of the songs that I recorded for that. It's called City Called Heaven and I learned it from Fanny Lou Hamer. I only learned stuff from dead people for the most part. This world would try to make heaven my home Sometimes and sister Because I am trying to get in Sometimes all buts all stick on some dark It's been so fun to spend the day with y'all learning some banjo music hanging out. This is a beautiful park. I wish more cities had parks like this in the middle of them. It's a pretty cool thing to just drive from a city block into a large forest. We don't have that in Providence. Maybe we will. The fun secret of the old time show is that typically I play two versions of Grey Eagle in two versions of Roustabout in every set because there are so many to pick from. We have had two Roustabouts. We're not going to get into Grey Eagles today. So you should come to the next show to hear the next Grey Eagle or buy my CD, which includes it and many of the songs which you have for tonight. It's called Spider Tales. I have CDs and I have vinyl and I would love to not have them anymore. Come see me after the show. The music I play comes from black and indigenous people. That's my family's heritage. It's what I like to dig up in this music. And this next piece is part of that. It's a wild tune. It doesn't sound a lot like what we expect fiddle tunes to sound like. Probably because it's a very old Cherokee tune. Well, we're going to hunt the buffalo. I've been a spring tank on my pedalboard. This next one is a song from Cutie Leadbeller, better known as Leadbelly. There's a very cool band in Providence where I live called the Vox Hunters who sings some very awesome old songs. Yeah, one Vox Hunters fan. It is very hard to get them out of Rhode Island. So they're not well known, but within the traditional songs community, they're very well regarded. And I've had the great pleasure of working on them, working on a project with them that's on the history of black maritime music. We got a grant from Club Passim in Boston to dig further into this and make a little recording project. And we're still making baby steps toward the recording stage, but we have started taking the stuff out and performing it, which is fun. And this is a sea shanty I learned while actually living and working on a sailboat. It's called Holloway Joe. And it makes a great sing along if anybody feels like singing. So I will sing one line and then there's an answering line. Wait, I'm not going to quiz you. You got it. Thanks for coming, everybody. Take a moment again to once again thank our volunteers for this summer spice celebration and also the board of directors for the Summit School of Traditional Music and Culture which is presenting this event today. So let's hear it for those guys. I just want to mention that you're really in for a treat with Sammy, Linda, Nadine, Landry. As I said, they drove 10 hours from Northern Quebec, I believe, to join us today. And we're just really honored to have them. They've been touring with Foghorn String Band. They have another band called Cajun Country Revival. You should check out. And now, as we can see, they're doing some duo material. We're so glad to have them here. They're ready to hit the stage. They're going to do a little bit of a sound check. So once again, we have Le Bon Crepe. You can get some food, stick around. We're going to have Nadine and Sammy up next. Thanks again for coming. And for Jake again, that was a great show. Thank you for the wee bit. Hardly any. Hello. No, we don't want feedback. We don't want feedback, right? Unless it's constructive. Well, once Sammy's done talking, he'll come up and we'll play some tunes. In the meantime, I'm just going to ask this question. Have you ever been to Quebec? Have you ever been to the Gas Bay Coast? A few of you. That's pretty east. It's further north, but not considered north. Quebec goes up so far up. But we're as far east as we can get, pretty much. And my hometown of Pointe à la Croix. If you ever come, we'll have the kettle on. You can stop by. Nice Cajun song on fiddle and triangle called Mont Vieux Wagon. My old wagon. When I was young, I used to go in my old wagon to go pick up my bell. And it was on a Saturday night, and life was great. Basically. Oh, yeah. And still married for 40 years. That's the song it's about. And I see that there's a big dance floor in the front. So don't be shy. Grab your waltzing or a two-step partner. Play a nice little fiddle tune from the great state of Missouri and walk around the kitchen until the cook comes home. Cajun music on the banjo. I don't see any Cajun police here tonight, so... I'm gonna risk it. This one is a nice one that originated in France and went to probably Acadie, where I'm living right now, and then headed down to Louisiana at some point. And it started as a nice conversation between a man and a woman where he says to her, I'm gonna give you a golden ring if you'll marry me. And she's like, man, is that all you got? I'm gonna say no. And I'm gonna give you a brand new car and my portrait if you'll marry me. How about this, the key to all my silver and my gold? And once again, she just does not light up until he says I'll give you my love and my heart and all the love that's in it. Sammy and I are gonna celebrate the wedding anniversary tomorrow. Pretty awesome that I married someone who plays both banjo and accordion, right? Nice for me, anyway. Thanks, everybody. There's a little banjo tune from Kentucky called the Ball. So much, or as much as we'd like. These days, they came a point where there's quite a few fiddlers. My grandma was, and she taught all her kids to play piano and guitar to back up her fiddle tunes. And growing up, we always had music parties, which was really nice. And I just kind of assumed that everybody had music gatherings in their family. And one time, maybe in fifth grade or something, my friend was all bummed out and I was like, what's going on? I was like, oh, if a family meeting, family, well, you can call it a party. Because there was no such thing, right? And he's like, well, they're just like so boring and they only talk about politics. I was like, wait, they're not like playing music and raging tunes and dancing and singing. He's like, no. So then I realized I was pretty privileged to have grown up in a musical family. But we'll play a tune called Castongue that comes a little further east and north of us from Iduafishaw and then into a nice Newfoundland tune that we've learned lately called the Red Island tune. Thank you so much. You play all those? Are they all going to come back with you? Are you going to leave some down there? Like, no, no. They're all coming back with us. Crazy. We're not going to forget any. It's happened before, but we're really going to try hard not to forget any. So since we brought them all, we played them all. We're just going to play the party in the box here, the accordion. Playing the Cajun music and it seems like since I'm a Cajun that would have been kind of the reason why I got into it. It wouldn't make sense anyways, but when I was 19, I went to visit my aunt who lived in the Yukon territory and I thought I'd visit her for a couple of weeks, but I ended up staying 17 years up north and I went very many frequent trips to Alaska and discovered this gang of crazy people that did not speak one word of French, but yet they sang all this Cajun music so beautifully and I was like, what? Why am I not doing that stuff? I love it. And I understand what they're saying. And it's different from my French, but still close enough I can understand and just appreciate all the beautiful imagery that's in it. This one's called Jean Glamois which is like juggle of me, juggle. Yeah. So it's like, think of me once a day even though you've left me. And Dan saw us to follow up a two-step with the waltz. So we're going to do one here called the waltz of no return. Proud to say that I'm well, we'll know in six to eight weeks if it's really official but most likely will be in the Guinness world book of record Guinness something, something order of those three words for the most amount of people that tapped their foot to a fiddle tune like Quebecois style sitting down while the tune played all together. There was 361 of us that did it all at the same time. It's cool to be part of that event. It was like, we did it for six minutes and 38 seconds and there was a jumbotron with like the timer going up and it seemed like we had done it for at least 30 seconds and I look up and it said eight. And I don't know what type of time unit they had there but when we finished because the officials had like a little timer around their neck and it said six minutes, 38 seconds but it was like one minute and 42 at the counter. So I don't know if they were trying to play a joke because we were supposed to do it for at least five minutes but their five minutes is like half an hour so I think that was super weird. But yeah, we did it and it was it was really funny to be part of that. And then I was like in Julliet just north of Montreal and I sat down and the girl next to me we just kind of chit-chat before it started because it took a long time to sit 300 people because it all had to be like recorded officially and I said oh, I came all the way from the Gaspe goes for this she's like are you kidding me? I was just there a couple weeks ago I was like oh, really where'd you go? And then she was telling me like northern New Brunswick and all those towns and there's a town called Cafequette and I was like oh, you went there like did you go for the festival because they have a pretty big Acadian festival she's like no, but we were in Camelton and we saw this duo it was great and she was like yeah, that's it I was like, that's me she's like you're kidding me I was funny so I was like I got it down my sister-in-law enough talking well, I'm from Minnesota originally and I was really lucky to a pretty musical family but it was my oldest got me going on the kind of music I still love started off with the Minneapolis rock and roll bands you know, Husker and Replacements and all that kind of good stuff but of course Bob Dylan but probably one of the biggest influence I was like, yeah, he rules he's still going and I got to see him you know, at least three times a year from time I was 12 to when I left home and I was 18 but it was a big dream of ours a big dream of mine last time Faughan String Band played Minneapolis we got Spider to open up the show and it was just unbelievable he's still going he might have retired from playing music but he's still walking around and being the youth ball that he was oh yeah the Fiddler from Texas just named Eck Robert I would have lost a lot of sleep over that. It's because there'll be a test later, so. One that I got from Spyder. It's a real common fiddle tune and common song in the old-time music tradition. It's called the Roven Gambler from the great country of Norway. Listened to a lot of music at home, especially the last couple of years. Gotten into all kinds of crazy stuff. Not crazy stuff, but beautiful music from other places. And here's a waltz called Vettelback, which means like a mountain bird. Both my grandparents actively playing. It was really cute. The fiddle always gonna hang on the wall. And she picked it up and handed it to my grandpa. Did not play any music at all, but somehow tuned the fiddle and handed it back to my grandma. I got the advantage. Well, and it never sounded bad. Like grandpa was magic that way. Believed in fairies and stopped people from bleeding when they had injuries and stopped colleagues and horses. So we'd get lots of phone call. I called him a bunch, like carving pumpkins, like grandpa, my roommate just cut herself, carving pumpkins. He's like, he did this thing where he was not allowed to say anything. He's not allowed to share what it was. He was allowed to say the secret to one person of different gender than him. And then she or he, you know, would be able to say it just once to someone of different gender. And my grandma also knew that trick, but we always thought of grandpa. And one day I was like, so curious, and I wanted to have that gift so bad. And I said, well, what do you know if you say the same thing? They're like, no, we never talked about it. I was like, well, where is it now? And they're like, well, grandpa gave it to the local nurse, the village nurse, and grandma gave it to the oldest son and it kind of got lost. And I'm just like, no. But anyways, tuning fiddle was another of his magic powers. That was nothing for him. Oh, and the funny part about his horses, too, if let's say grandpa's neighbor, his horse had colics, and then he would call my grandpa. And grandpa on the phone had to be like, what color is it? Even though he saw it every single day of his life. And he'd be like, what color is your horse? Still gray. All right, go tomorrow morning, your horse will be fine. And sure enough, they go to the stable. Horse was just perfect health. From Mississippi there, called Don't Get. Summer's nice, winter's nice. It's all good. And also thanks to Tracy for like, getting our food and everything. That was really nice. And also to Chris and Jenny for inviting us in their homes. Really nice to see you all folks. And thanks to all of you for supporting life music. We still have fun, but we're having way more fun that you're here. Here's an old Carter family song, a gospel song. We're gonna finish up here with an old classic and we're gonna invite a new friend. Well, we became reacquainted today after six years of hanging out, or hanging out six years ago. Jake Lund. It never stopped us from smiling.


هو يساعده ، يساعده. يجب أن يساعد المسؤولة. ألماء ، أماناء ، أرسل ، لقد رأيتهم ، يجب أن يساعدهم ، نحن لا نستطيع المساعدة ، لا نرى إبراهيم ، لا نرى موسى ، لا نرى إيسا ، لا نرى أمان ، لا نرى أمان ، كيف ف clockwise؟ تیکل هذه العرام bring out موافوباتنا. يريدون لنا ، نلقق الفئة. فإنこれ preventing علماء .. إذا ل paints qui trs ساقلون اي المجرد اعودة 2 جاهل للستنكف وان يتعلق ومن who is not Ali is a student but he does not disdain to go and learn he doesn't say work my social status I'm rich I am this I am that I am let's say 60 years old 70 years old I'm not still لكي يجب أن يتعلم. لا يجب أن يقول هذا. يقول ، نعم. أعرف أنه مستخدم لأني. في كل ما أحب I am. يجب أن يكون أعرفة من أعرفة. في أي أعرفة. في أي أعرفة. even at the last day of our life to die while we know is better than dying while we don't know. The story of the person who came to Imam As-Sa'a that he said if I know one day has been left of my life 24 hours. What should I do? Imam said go تعلم. تعلم الميلي. Go learn. One day is left of his life.  So someone who's ready to learn he says I'm ready. If I can learn from this person I'll go to him. If I learn from this school I'll go to this school. If I learn in this city I'll go to that city. If I go learn in this community I'll go to this community. He doesn't disdain. Disdain. لا يستنكف. و جاهلوا لا يستنكفو حانية العلم. Nothing should stop us from learning. Nothing. The other day I read in the paper that someone concluded she concluded her PhD thesis at the age of 96. 96 years old. She learned until she she got her PhD. She's a wise person. She did not waste her time going shopping and sitting with you know sipping tea with women and speaking about dunya and you know. Really. She used her time in the best way. Best memory. She left a legacy because this ale that you leave behind this is your legacy. إذا ما تبنه آدم أطعا أمله و عمله إلا عن ثلاث. First علمون يمتفعوا بهنص. If you leave a legacy people come and learn.  You receive the thawab, the reward.  You get the thawab. So don't say I had knowledge enough for me because I'm not going to live longer than that. You would never say that. You know why? Because when it comes to money we don't say I have money enough for me. I'm not going to live longer. When it comes to money we run after money. So why when it comes to money we stop? We should not stop. This is number 2. Number 3. The third foundation و جواده لا يبخل بمعروفه. A jawad person who is rich and also what? Not only his pocket is rich but his heart is rich too. Generous. Some people the pocket is rich. Believe me. His pocket is rich but when you look at his face you feel sorry for him. Sometimes you need to give him 5 box. Believe me. That he is rich. His pocket is rich but the soul is not rich. Others no. Others others are the opposite. The pocket is empty but the soul is rich. And the Quran says يحسبهم الجاهل أغنياء من التعفف. Someone who is unaware he thinks they are millionaires but they are not millionaires. They have no dinner for tonight. But their soul is rich. They have honor. They have dignity. They have honor and dignity. This jawad this person the third example is the one who gives. لا يبخل بمعروفه. He gives. When there is a need he would rush to that. Allah says to Sulayman عليه السلام في صورة صلاة هذا عطاءنا فنن أمسك بغير الحساب. This is our gift to you. You are king. I am giving you wealth. And when I give you wealth I want you to give generously فنن without reckoning, without حساب. I want you when you give give graciously and generously. Don't say I have given this two dinars. So the third one is too much for him. Give. Because this is my money. Allah says this is my money. Why do you worry about it? You are my agent. You have to give. فنن Give. When God has given you share. Share. And number four number four foundation وفقير لا يبيع أخلته بالدنيا. سلن who is faqir. He doesn't have that good income. He has hard time making ends meet. He has hard time paying his rent his food, his medication but his soul is as he is dignified. He does not sell himself cheap. He does not sell his آخر.  He knows the wrong ways of making money but these ways are illegal. These ways are haram. He would not approach them. Though he need the money. He need the money. But he says the money that is haram I don't touch it. Because I don't لا يبيع أخيرته بالدنيا. I do not trade my آخر for a few days in this life. I don't do that. أمير المؤمنين says فإذا ضيع العالي معلمة. Once the scholar does not disseminate his knowledge. He waste his knowledge. How does he waste his knowledge? He does not practice it. How does they waste their knowledge? Sometimes they don't teach. Sometimes they don't practice what they preach. This is how they lose their knowledge. فإذا ضيع العالي معلمة استنكف الجاهل أن يتعلن. Someone who is unaware and student he says if the scholar is not practicing his knowledge why should I go and learn? There is no benefit in me going and learning because look at this scholar he is not practicing what he is learning. So we send wrong messages to the people. That elm is useless. Don't waste your time. When we don't practice it ourselves. وإذا بخل الغنين يوبي معروفه. When someone is rich that he does not give باع الفقير وأخيرته بدنياه. باع الفقير. Someone who is poor, needy. He doesn't have income. In that case when the rich one does not help him he is going to go and sell himself cheap. He is going to go and commit haram. In some countries these countries are very rich. They have surplus of wealth. Surplus, vast surplus of wealth. At the same time you find some people begging in the streets. At the same time you find some prostitutes in the hotels. Why should they have prostitutes? If the country takes care of its citizens and they lead a dignified life there shouldn't be anyone who sells his honor or her honor, their dignity cheap to others. When the economy is strong and the hakim is just the ruler, the Sultan is just he takes care of his citizens. Why should people go and sell the drugs and do this and do that?  If the hakim and those who are rich they are not just they are corrupt. They seize the wealth only for themselves. They don't share it with the citizens. So if if the rich and the well-known comes to the poor his wealth is in this world the true ruler The Prince of the Faith


So, what we're going to do is I'm going to be asking our panel some questions about their world and how they use WordPress, but I'm going to go ahead and have the panel introduce themselves, say a little bit about who they are and why they're here. Hi, my name is Sunny Tucker. I'm 16 and I blog. Hi, my name is Alicia. I'm 13 years old and I blog with WordPress. I love WordPress and I love connecting with people and sharing my story. Hi, my name is Alyssa Fernandez. I'm 12 years old and I'm here because we were actually, well, because of this kids panel and our mom is speaking here and so are we. Yay! Hi, my name is Anna Tuttle. I'm 15 and a couple of years ago I did a presentation, but this year I'm just coming to enjoy and I blog with WordPress, obviously. Okay, so the question is basically do we publish any content online and what do we publish? So I should I answer first? So me personally, my blog is mainly just about things that happen to me in my life and how I'm reacting to them with funny photos and stuff. So I mainly just publish stuff online to make people laugh and I also now I'm focusing more on like social media aspect, so yeah, and yes, I publish online. So I do publish online. I have a blog called Holy Art and I publish things to help kids become better people and deal with the changing world around them. Yes, I publish online. I am with my sister at holyart.com and basically what I really love doing is sharing my message because I was bullied in elementary school and I like helping kids embrace themselves, love themselves and have self-esteem and confidence. So I publish online. I actually started my blog to keep up with my extended family who live very far away. And also as an outlet to get out feelings and thoughts that I had that I didn't really feel like telling anybody else currently. So yeah, I definitely publish online. Awesome. So the next question is going to be what methods do you use to push your publications?  I actually don't use any kind of marketing at all. I just word of mouth tell other friends and stuff like that, so. Well, since this is WordCamp WordPress, obviously, well, I'm on all social media, Tumblr, Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram, you name it. I just love putting stuff out there, creating graphics and images to go with my blog posts. So my sister and dad published with WordPress and we do all social media, like you said. When I started publishing on WordPress, I was like eight years old. So at that time I didn't have any social medias. So it was mainly just like a thing to connect with like my grandparents and stuff and tell them about my life. So I haven't really, I don't really use any social media to like spread the word about my blog. I probably will in the future, we'll see. But I haven't yet. So we'll see. Okay. So the next question is things that you prefer to use. Are you guys mobile or tablet users or do you prefer desktop? And with that, what type of third party apps are you using when it comes to your WordPress blog? Are you using any type of plugins and things of that nature? So it's kind of a two-fold question. Well, I just, I really only use a laptop. So and I don't use any plugins. I'm WordPress hosted. So that's it. Well, I like using my laptop too. I feel it gives me accessibility and like typing on a keyboard. Well, some things that I use is co-schedule. I use that for my headlines to make them pop out and make sure my readers and my target audience that will make it more appealing to them. It's co-schedule.com slash headline-dash-analyzer. And I also use Canva to create graphics that I pair up with my blog posts. And sometimes I do infographics and things like that that are really fun and really easy to do. I mostly use my laptop to publish things, but I also some occasionally use my mini iPad where I conveniently have the WordPress app. For me, it's kind of both. As far as most social media is like Instagram, Twitter, which I mainly use Instagram and Twitter, I definitely use mobile. I love mobile.  I'm like always like scrolling my Twitter feed. But then for other things like definitely publishing on WordPress, I always do it on my computer and then stuff like Tumblr too. I just like the way it looks better on my desktop. So I usually use Tumblr on my desktop, but I also have my mobile in case of emergencies. So we'll see. Okay, so we talked a little bit about what you guys are doing in the online space. Let's talk a little bit about how you get there and your process. So when you start to write a new blog post or push something out and publish it, what is the thought process that you use to get to the final product? I go through a lengthy process to write my blog post. First of all, it starts with the idea. Usually I just do a put an ideas paper and create a brief outline of the main points that I'm going to be covering. And then basically I do my research. I read books. I go on Google. I look for statistics if I need them. And then I do kind of a brain dump. I write down everything that I want to write down. And then I spend the next few minutes organizing it and editing and kind of polishing it. And then after that, I do my images. I do my headline. And then I'm just ready to publish. Well, for my blog posts, I research. I look for quotes and statistics and also other people's outlook on the topic that I choose to be walking about because I'd like to have a broad variety of perspectives. I'm sorry for my blog. And then I write everything down and kind of put it in order. I do Canva images. Then I do my headline. And then I ask my mom to be my proofreader and check to see if anything is missing. Then I publish it. And then I do the web promotion. For me, a common theme in a lot of my WordPress posts on my blog is just different stories that I've heard. So usually it's on like a TV show that I watch or a movie or a book that I really love. So for me, when I'm writing blog posts, it's usually just like she was saying like brain dump. I usually just write everything down. And then sometimes when I'm in the middle of writing a story or writing something that happened to me, I'll think, oh, this makes me think of this such and such thing that I saw either on the internet or in a TV show or something. So then I'll get the gif of that and put it in the blog post. So I'm always putting pictures and stuff. So I usually do that. And I just write a lot. And then I'll go back and edit and proofread and do everything. And then I just post it. And then after I post it, I'll go to people I know and be like, oh, hey, check it out. Like my friends and stuff. So. I'm one of those instant gratification people. So I kind of write and then hit publish and then go back and go, I want to change this and change it and hit publish. And then so it kind of depends on which with what kind of a post I'm doing. So occasionally I'll write a poem and I'll write on my notebook paper and then just put it on my blog. Suddenly I will write on an assignment for school and send it into my teacher and then put it on my blog. If I'm doing an update post on everything I've done in the past three months for my family, I will go to my journal and make an outline of everything I've done and then go by that and write my post. My mom edits some of it. Sometimes it goes unedited. But that's pretty much my process. Well, thanks so much, guys. So now that we've talked about what your process is and everything, how often do you post your content and what is the thought process behind that frequency? So usually I try to do it three times a week. Lately I've been doing it once a week, but I want to get back on track and be more consistent. For me it's like, I'm not saying this because you guys are so organized, but for me it's like just when I have something I want to say I'll say it. So usually it's like every couple months, it depends. It really depends. But because usually what I write about is something that happens to me. So if there's something really weird like in a class or something that my professor said, I'll write about it. So yeah, is there another part of the question I'm sorry? We'll see. Okay. Well, the question was how often do you post, right? Okay. Well, I try to do it three times a week too because our mom has a rule of thumb that we have three categories so we alternate on those every week and I think consistency is key to how you're doing your blogging that the more often you publish, the more often you publish, the more people will want to come to your blog because they know stuff is there. Well, I'm kind of one of those bloggers again. So I kind of just publish every once in a while. I actually haven't published since November. I was a lot more frequent before then and I just published for the first time like last week I think again. So definitely looking into getting back into that. Awesome. Awesome. And I like that there's some differences there because it shows that there's not necessarily a right or wrong way to do things. It's all personally what works for us. So now here's the big question. How are your parents involved in the process of your blogging and how thankful for that are you? So now I'm putting you on the spot. I'm definitely thankful for that. My mom is pretty much the biggest person who edits everything. She reads everything almost instantly. She basically really actually keeps track of the whole cyber security thing. So the whole cyber bullying and all that stuff. She's like that filter that everything comes through so that stops. So that's really important. So yeah, she just edits everything. She reads all my comments. Who follows me? She stalks people who follow me sometimes. It is true in some cases. A few cases. That's pretty much it though. Well, what can I say about my mom? She's incredible. But all the things that we've done have been supported by her. The idea of blogging and of getting out there in first place was through her because that's what she does and that's what she works for. And while she edits for us, she has been our book editor as well. She has helped us in all our writing processes and in proof reading and making sure that everything is safe for the cyber security as well. She does all our comments for us on WordPress. And she is just our number one supporter and biggest fan. She reads all my blog posts and checks my Canva images to make sure everything is good on there. And I'm just really thankful for her. So thank you, mom. I love my mom. She has always been there for me. And she proofreads all my stuff and makes sure that it's relevant. And that I'm doing it right. And also that it looks good as well. And she's always there for me. And she, of course, it's a pretty big deal that she even lets me blog. So thank you, mommy. Cool. OK, shout out to my parents over there. Because without them, I would literally not be here. So as far as my blogging process, it's actually kind of perfect. Because my parents kind of represent the two sides of blogging. Because my dad is like super computer with like amazing smart. And so he's really good with the techie side of it. So I actually started blogging on one of my dad's websites called Miami Fun Guide. And it's basically like a guide for people who are coming to Miami as tourists to different family friendly places. So as a kid, I used to write reviews of different restaurants, theaters, different stuff that we would go to. So that's kind of what started me blogging. Because I got comfortable with WordPress and writing posts in that way. And then I started my own blog. And my dad is the one that formatted my whole blog and made it look really pretty and everything. And then my mom is the other side of that, which is like the actual writing part. Because I'm actually homeschooled by my mom. So she, awesome. Yes. Oh, this is our home school. Awesome. So she like literally taught me how to write. So both of them are huge factors. As far as actually publishing, I mean writing posts, individual posts, I usually write most of the stuff and put the pictures and stuff. And then I'll just like run it through them to see what they think. And they're usually like, the only reason I'm blogging, well not the only reason. But I would not be blogging if it weren't for them. So I'm super thankful. Thank you. OK, so now that I know you're all homeschooled, I can add a new question to my list. I say homeschool mom who integrates WordPress into her curriculum for her child. Is it integrated into your curriculum? And if so, in what ways? And if not, is there any way you could think to integrate it into your curriculum next year? OK. So yeah, it's integrated into my curriculum. I just finished building a blog for our homeschool co-op for the co-op wide. They wanted a blog to represent them on the internet. So I just finished doing that. And that was part of my curriculum for just coding and stuff like that. That's what I did for that. And just coding in general is actually part of my curriculum. I took a whole class on C-Sharp. So that's kind of, it's been part of my curriculum for a while. So, but WordPress is kind of like the way that I can utilize all that stuff. You know, it's one thing to learn it and then another thing to actually do it. So. Definitely, I think that's one of the biggest part of our curriculum right there is writing and learning how to create content. Graphic design is something that I'm really big on and that I love doing and I'm particularly good at. And just really learning how WordPress works. It's so simple and so easy to use, which is why I think it's so easy to love and so easy to learn doing. It's incredible and I just love doing it. Well, our curriculum is really made up of different curriculums. It's very unique and I love it. And yes, WordPress, our blog is part of our curriculum. And we are learning how to write. And one day we won't need mom's help with the writing. How? Oh, well, we actually do prefer it for our mom's blog. So that's also training and it will help us when we're older. So it is definitely part of our schooling. Yeah, I would agree in the same way. Whenever there was a specific book report or an essay or something that I really liked that I would write for school, I would post it on my blog. So it was kind of like an initiative, I guess, because sometimes when you're doing school work and you're like, what's the point of this essay? No one's going to see it. So for the example, when I would put it on my blog, I would feel like that I was doing something. And then also with Mommy Fun Guide, with writing posts and stuff, that was also incorporated into homeschooling. So yeah, I would say it's a really big part. Well, I forgot to mention too because I took a journalism class and I had to actually publish all of my stuff. And it was with FLVS. I don't know if you use that. So it was without FLVS and I had to officially publish all my stuff but not publish it. So it all went on my blog. So the whole world could see it and say, you misspelled that or you forgot to come in there. So that was part of my curriculum also. That's awesome. So when we're talking about posting out into the real world, for lack of a better term, with that comes social media and conversing with friends and things of that nature.   But maybe I should try doing that. I mean, I haven't thought of it before but maybe they'd be interested in something like that. I actually, my friends use Instagram. Sometimes we go to church and we see that our friends just followed us on Instagram and we're like, yay. I actually just got in touch with what we used to go to school and I stopped at first grade but I had a best friend in kindergarten and I just got in touch with her after a long time on Instagram. So that has been a big help for me and she uses that a lot. Yeah, I would say definitely social media is such a huge part of my life. I would say even the reason I haven't used my blog so much is because I'm on social media because social media is like tiny little blogs. You know what I mean? So in terms of what my friends use, definitely Instagram, Twitter, Tumblr a lot. I heard that people don't like this but I have to be honest. Snapchat is huge. Everyone uses it. So that's definitely a big social media. One thing that I don't like about Snapchat though, which is better on WordPress, is that everything goes away really quickly but on WordPress everything's there so you have the record of your life, which is something I really like. So that's why I prefer Instagram or Twitter over Snapchat. As far as telling my friends about WordPress, I actually haven't, aside from sharing my blog posts with friends, but I am actually in addition to homeschooling this semester. I'm taking dual enrollment classes here at FIU as a high school student and I was actually really impressed because my professors, it's a writing class and my professors are actually using WordPress as part of the class. So it was amazing because all the students were like, ah, now I have to learn how to use WordPress and I'm like, I already know. So it was great, it was perfect. So I'm, yeah. So and coming to WordCamp in the past years and stuff, I feel like I was the only person who knew WordPress but now people are using it a lot more so I'm really excited. Well, I think something, yeah, Instagram and Twitter are really big among my friends and actually the same, no, I haven't thought of sharing WordPress with my friends. Aside from telling them, hey, I published this blog post. I think you might really like it and telling them about my business side of things. I think it would be really awesome for me to start letting people know that a blog is something that anyone can do. Yeah, and just to add to that, yeah, I've kind of shared my blog posts with all my friends too, but I've never, you know, encouraged them to blog themselves. I have considered starting a blog with my best friend, just like kind of like two people posting on the same blog, kind of like a cooperation kind of a thing but we haven't pursued that so that would be definitely a good idea. And yeah, so as far as my friends in social media, it's a lot of Instagram and Facebook and yeah, Snapchat. I forgot to say a couple of years ago or maybe a year ago, I'm not sure, at a word camp actually one of my friends came and she's here, so I have shared WordPress with one of my friends, I forgot to say that and I like helped her set up a blog and everything so I forgot I have shared WordPress with my friends. Yay! So, we're actually gonna do a workshop in Texas about how to start a blog for kids so we're really excited about that. So we've talked about what you guys are doing now, we've talked about what you guys have done so far and we've talked about getting your friends involved and stuff like that. Where do you see WordPress taking you in the future and how do you think it's going to play a role in potential careers later on down the road and I know some of you are younger than others but that might be something that you're thinking about, it might not and if it's not, you can skip. It's fine. Oh, me, okay. For me, yeah, definitely, I've definitely thought of it in multiple ways. For me personally, I've always wanted to have in the newspaper one of those advice columns so I've always thought what if my blog could be an advice website or either that or a movie review website because I'm really into movies and stuff. So those are ways that I'm thinking of taking my blog in the future. We'll see what happens. We'll see again. But then another more practical career way that I might use WordPress in the future is that I personally at the moment I wanna become a wedding planner. So yeah, so I'm actually, I just got accepted to FIU so I wanna come here to study hospitality management. So that with social media and with WordPress that would be a huge way of like promoting myself like as a wedding planner, if I become a wedding planner because then I could write posts about the weddings that I do and everything. So I think that WordPress will definitely be a big part of my career in the future. Well, I have thought about careers a lot and I actually wrote a book about careers when I was seven. So that goes to show you. Anyways, I do want to be a writer when I grow up and I already am now. So that sort of has set the foundation and I also want to be a singer and an artist which I am right now but I want to take that to the next level. And I think that that could help me get the connections that I need to start my business doing that. Well, I definitely see WordPress playing a part of my future. Actually, I pretty much have my life planned out right now. I know where I'm gonna go to the college and everything and I wanna major in English and because I really love writing and it's one of my top passions and I need to get in tune more of what it could do for me and I wanna be a blogger for the rest of my life basically.  So it sounds like I'm the odd one out here. I definitely see in the next few years taking my blog to the next level maybe doing some sponsorships or something like that. As far as a career, I plan on majoring in marine bio so it might work its way in there somehow. It might not. Definitely, I'll probably still blog about my life and keeping up with family and stuff, but as far as a career, not positive about that but definitely, definitely will stick with me. Awesome. Well, I wanna thank you guys. I will say, I wanna thank you guys for your time and I know it's not easy to get up in front of people because I did it earlier today. So thanks for standing up here with me. So I'm not the only one up here, but we do have time for at least one, maybe two depending on how long it takes from the audience to take questions. So there's anybody that wants to ask a question. Speak now. We love questions, yeah. I could say promote that type of learning word for us to kids your age a little younger. So the question for the video is what could be done to help get kids interested in WordPress from an educational standpoint? Correct, okay. So something that would really, kids love to, like if you have long-distance friends or family, then kids love to get in touch with them and not have to say hi to them once in a year and spend all that time getting caught up and then not seeing them in forever. So that would definitely be a way to look at it and also being able to express themselves more. Yeah, I definitely agree. Like that was like almost exactly what I was gonna say. So I definitely think that that's something. Yeah, so basically one, to connect with people. Definitely, I'm just like repeating what you said. But yeah, to connect with people, friends and then also just cause a lot of people, like kids a lot of times I feel like they think that like people don't wanna listen to what they have to say. So I think definitely a way that could promote having a blog for a kid would just be to like share their ideas or share their art if they're artists or just to like to be able to be themselves like on a blog, I think that would be good. I think the biggest thing is letting them know that they can do anything they want. Not keeping them to a restriction, you have to blog about this or do this or do that or the layout or design has to look like this. Just let their imagination run wild and that they can do anything and the possibilities are endless. I agree with the connecting with other people as well and also what I heard saying about the essays and poems for school that it's really fun to know that it's going to good use and that other kids can see it out there too. I would say something like I personally journal for a lot of kids, especially nowadays, they don't like to write or hand writing, typing is much easier for them. So I would see it as a journal of sorts that you can look back on 10 years from now and go, wait, I did that or I wrote like that or who says that anymore?  A lot of people have qualms about talking to a human, saying something to their mom or their dad or their friends that they think, oh, they won't like it. Just, you know, post it on blog, it's a little different. So. Yes. I think for what things would you like to change that word to press and this is your last question, guys. No pressure. Sure, I'll start. Sure. I know. Okay. I know what my mom wants me to say about this. Rave me on this question. I'm sort of joking about that. But so something that I could see would definitely be, could be paid attention to. I know that there are some fixes for this. Is the cyber security thing. So the cyber bullying, that stuff does go on. It does happen. It could happen to anybody.  So that's one thing I would change. Well, I don't really see right now anything that I would personally like to change about word press. Just probably going back to kids doing word press, just advertising and marketing it more that kids can do it and that kids can share their stories and share their message. Because there are lots of adult blogs, but kids can blog too and I would really love to see more kids getting out there and doing things like all of us are doing and just sharing their stories, sharing their opinion and expressing themselves. Well, I think that something that would make it a lot easier for me to publish a blog post would be if I could take those apps that I use like Canva and Co-Schedule and be able to use them on the word press site. Like if I could download an app on the word press site and use it right there and then be able to upload my pictures and the things that I want to use in my blog post, right there. That would be so much easier because then I don't have to open new tabs and go here and then download it and then put it in my post. Yeah, the only thing I think that could be improved which is already being improved as we see with kids camp, just what she said about spreading the word to kids. So yeah, that's it. There was a little girl in the audience. Is it Alicia that had a question? Alicia, what's your question? Oh no, in front of Alicia? I'm sorry, I don't know your name. Ava, what's your question? Who wants to take it? Okay, Anna. Yeah, definitely. Anything you want, basically. You can do, you can write a post with embedded or like, I don't know if you know what embedded means but like, you can put photos and videos in your post with writing or you could even just post a photo. Like I've seen a lot of photography blogs and stuff that have just videos and photos and that's your blog. So yeah, basically you can do whatever you want, post whatever. Yeah. You could also just do, you could have a vlog which is a video blog that you get a YouTube channel and then basically you write up descriptions and make videos and that's a blog but it's a video blog, so it's a blog. Do I have any other questions?  I wanna thank you guys for coming out again. Thank the parents for letting us borrow their children. Thank you.


What's good Josh boy Ross back again with another video, so we're gonna check out I I forgot what we was checking out. Um Here's the thing sometimes the feud of a particular You know particular to wrestlers or whatnot could be I guess you can say not that good But then when it gets to the pay-per-view event, it's like a five-star classic and you're trying to figure out How did that happen this feud has been kind of boring kind of mid, but the match was great And that sometimes happens in WWE the feud itself is no one really cares about but when the match gets there Everyone's raving about it. So it's a weird. It's a weird thing that can happen Especially in WWE so we're gonna check this out. Appreciate all love and support Old saying in life not the hooks. I have a child. There's another old saying in life It's not about the destination It's about the journey the way you end up is secondary to the scenic route you take and you know that because ultimately the final Destination is death cheerful business in wrestling It's the other way around the match is almost always more important than the story that gets us there after all What's more heartbreaking than an amazing feud full of twists and turns that ends with an awful match Yeah, what's the point of any of this or to put it more simply Randy Orton? However, sometimes Yeah, the other way around sometimes the feud is like wading through sweaty molasses only for the blow-off match to be Surprisingly incredible. It's kind of magical when that happens with all odds a match rules making it all worth it After all I'm Adam Haley from parts fun known and here are 10 terrible feuds that ended with great matches While you're here like and subscribe to parts fun known or we'll have a terrible feud with you That will end in a great murder number 10 Seth Rollins versus Brock Lesnar SummerSlam 2019 What a weird 2019 Seth Rollins had he won the Royal Rumble won world championships at both WrestleMania and SummerSlam And somehow into the year about as popular as a skunk and a lift probably had something to do with a this bastard match Bastard yeah, be him tweeting about how rich he was constantly doesn't change the path That's one of those type of things where it's like Rollins he at that time He was he wasn't taking the criticism very well granted wrestling fans can be some of the worst Fans out there, but he wasn't taking it in stride In fact, he was kind of coming off as a prick online So it didn't really help During those small parts of bangers like the main event of SummerSlam 2019 the few going into that main event was arseholes Brock winning money in the bank despite not being in the match Dancing around with the briefcase like your dad trying to teach you about the perils of gangs Cashing in then murdering Seth every single week just making him look like an an absolute twat every Monday night However, when the end result is a proper David versus Goliath masterpiece and a main event It's actually matches the night we accept sometimes as a method to the Brock Lesnar booking madness Yeah, I'm Seamus versus Big Show hell in a cell 2012 You know how everyone hated Roman Reigns because they tried to make him into the new John Cena aka an Inhumanly chipper stand-up comedian who shrugged off villains by winking at the crowd and saying to his opponent. Yeah I lost but look at your weird penis.  It that match should have been much better And it wasn't even like it was awful. It was just They the crowd just didn't have no more energy, bro That was unfortunate for them the match in Saudi Arabia that ended in a double countdown You are completely justified in forgetting about that money in the bank 2018 Their last man standing match ruled did it rule to the point where it justified WWE booking five matches in two months between the two men No, no, I think you justify that and thank you WWE for not doing that anymore since dinosaur dick had his claws priced off the book But it's a really good match that deserves to be revisited It even pays off the endless nut shots in a satisfying enough way. At least we got this one I suppose at least we got this Death triangle versus house of black double or nothing 2022 bloody hell this feud went on a bit all in all the house of black began Feuding with death triangle round about February and the few didn't pay off until May that's some WWE levels of stretching things Yeah, it all seems super aimless as well house of black would show up attack someone rinse repeat And they were doing that with multiple different teams not just death triangle They bothered Fuego del Sol a bunt hounded the varsity blondes in Julia Hart a bunt beat death triangle with Eric Redbeard at Revolution it just went on and on both teams just attacking each other with no real storyline progression beyond that didn't help that Ray Phoenix was out with a broken arm They want to wait he was back to do the match properly But credit where it's due at double or nothing 2022 they did the match properly it ruled They even tied everything up with Julia Hart turning heel and doing black gobs in packs face to be fairies from Newcastle It's one of the more sanitary ways He's ended a night a little piece of trios brilliance that was almost Worth the wait he said almost Bray Wyatt versus John Cena Wrestlemania 36 the worst thing that ever happened to Bray Wyatt was meeting John Cena Yeah, I co-clown that laughs last laughs longest Why in Cena have actually had two feuds it ended with ball and matches their first in 2014 saw the invincible Wyatt family Be made to look like reek knobs for weeks on end losing at mania only winning and extreme rules with the help him losing That mania is still another bad bad decision Imagine if he would have beat John Cena at WrestleMania. I believe that was I think that was WrestleMania 30. I want to say that was WrestleMania 30 Imagine if he would be John Cena Could have been wonders for his career at that time for sure Helps of creeps junior and then ending with a last man standing match, which was very good indeed But also I think we're bray being literally buried under a Fast-forward six years to WrestleMania 36 and the wretched 2014 feud ends up being the entire basis for a fiend Cena feud Are you can't even really call it a feud? Cena just swings by to dunk on Wyatt like an uncle on Christmas Day popping into remind everyone that you pissed yourself ten years ago It all looked horrible It was like it was gonna happen again until the Firefly Funhouse match happened And it was the best cinematic wrestling that's ever been No matter how many pilot discos bray wrestlers in nowadays. They can't take that away from him.  This was back in a day less than one year on from the first dynamite And the company was still riding high from neatly plotted feuds like kodi versus mjf moxley versus omega The elite slow implosion so when ftr arrived in AEW the best tag team in nxt history seemed on a natural collision course with the best Tag team in aw history the young bucks. Yeah, it's a dream match Had been stoked by fans speculation online pettiness for eons. Surely this thing writes itself Well, no it did no it didn't though with aw going a really confusing route with it Both teams being friends then bucks were sort of heels And then ftr were sort of the heels They didn't really acknowledge their history all that much and then young bucks said if they lost They'd never challenge for the belts again only a year after kodi run that exact same stiff against chris jericho It was a hot unfocused mess, but then the match was one of the best matches of the year.  Can they coexist has turned into a long running in joke for wrestling fans because it seemed to be the only way That's that's always a thing. Can they coexist? The will they be able to work together even though they're going to be opponents in a couple of weeks We've seen that story so many times in wrestling WWE knew how to book feuds between two baby faces at the 2021 royal rumble Bianca lasted from number three to win the thing looking like an unspeakable badass in the process The boss sasha banks was smackdown champion at the height of her charismatic superstar powers Now I may be only a simple country hyper chicken But if I was in charge of booking a show down between two of the hottest prospects on smackdown I might not book them to lose back-to-back tag matches on pay-per-view against nia jackson Shayna baszler featuring heavy prominence from reginald to Cirque du Soleil scrappy do of the women's f***ing tag division I just might not do that despite both women coming off their feud looking incompetent even creative couldn't dim their Shine having all the best and most showed out satisfying world title matches in recent wrestle mania. They showed out honestly Sometimes wrestling's easy Just just let them fight Stop over complicating things And speaking of number three the rock versus steve austin wrestle mania x7 Potentially the best world title match in wrestle mania history potentially the best wrestle mania in wrestle mania history So much so that everyone knows how much needless Deborah was in the feud leading up to x7 because again WWE panics when it has to book face versus face and tries to stump up artificial drama As if rock versus austin the two biggest baby faces of the decade would ever need that because he's a little trick And here's the thing I get it, you know, they traditionally wanted to heal versus face But once again, they didn't have to It sells itself You don't have to have a heal in when it when we're talking about these two guys stone cold and the rock It works regardless. They don't there doesn't have to be a heal and face dynamic People are going to cheer for whatever they want to cheer for and people love them both. So It's one of those things. No one really had to go heal here. No one really had to it's just I want to be the best I need to win the championship. I need to retain the championship. It's all about the championship. That's it Nothing else. It's nothing personal. Just business. I That's just my personal being my personal take on it Vince made debra steve austin's wife who incidentally is as accomplished at wrestling promos as a tablespoon of cold piss He made her the manager to the rock almost immediately the few turned from a clash of gods into a soap opera squabble I mean, who doesn't like seeing steve austin bickering. That's why we fell in love with him in the first place The whole angle fell flat and was promptly ditched a few days before mania. Bam. She's not a factor And thankfully no over-the-top soap opera silliness ever again grace a steve austin rock feud That's some patented adam blampie restaurant quality sarcasm Roman Reigns versus broc lesnar wrestle mania 31 to be honest It wasn't just a main event between definitely about to leave the company broc lesnar in the least popular dog since cujo Roman Reigns most matches at wrestle mania 31 were built f***ing terribly The ic ladder match was built around the wrestlers tiptoeing around like cartoon characters stealing the belt Triple H versus sting was built around magical teleporting heat slaters And bray Wyatt versus undertaker was built around a combustible rocking chair It was a rough time to be a fan Reigns won the royal rumble that everyone wanted daniel brine to win He's going to fight lesnar at the wrestle mania where broc's contract was set to expire the wrong guy in a match That he couldn't lose Yeah f***ing dreadful Paul haven did his best to inject life into the view but no one was having it It was an absolutely dire situation for all involved crescendoing with a laughably bad angle on the go home raw Lesnar and Reigns snatching the title off you I remember that bro. They're just holding the title. It's mine. No, it's mine. Look That was just But the match was f***ing fantastic Match was great Each other like children squabbling over who gets the last pack of quavers in the shop It almost makes you laugh the one saving grace of both competitors They're able to smack each other around like nobody's business and the last shot the feud before the match start Contains no violence a week later wrestle mania one small announcement about lesnar's contract being extended later Suddenly the match is dynamite because of course it is it's intense.  They hit each other really hard. It's really great Yeah, it's really weird and interesting crowd dynamic before WWE pools won the greatest switcher who's they ever pulled bastards. Why'd you keep our hope alive?  I love that match eight out of the ten wrestlers were wwe guys shush though Hot crowd wonderfully catty performances from havin and jr on commentary.  I think it's jr. That's it. You're out of a job.  Hey, man. That's it. You're out of a job The inter promotional war fans had spent years dreaming of but as an isolated wrestling match It is sheer lightning and an unfortunate reminder that no matter how bad wrestling gets You can never stop watching or you might miss something like this.  What's been your favorite great match from a terrible feud? Let us know in the comments. Don't forget to like and share Now that's that's max if that's how it usually happens the few can be just Awful to the point when you don't care and then all of a sudden the match is actually quite entertaining and very good So comment down below Let me know what's a feud that you just thought was just boring But when the match actually came across You actually enjoyed it and you were wondering where did this come from? So I appreciate all love and support relative to 150k I'm still young to speedy youtube wrestling champ and your intercultural heavyweight champion. Appreciate your kicking with me See y'all next one. Peace


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