Did you know the Cisco 220 series 10 gig 24 port PoE switch will work with non-sysco DAC cables? Let's test and there we are Linked at 10 gig with a Ubuntu tagged cable pretty neat Link to the switch down below


LFG is here, looking for group. If you go to your dashboard, you can click looking for group. Yes, we know it's misspelled. That'll get fixed. And there you can fill in information about yourself. And then you can find other people to connect with, to help each other grow, to form a team. And then we will create leaderboards that will rank teams based on how quickly they grow together. And then we will reward you with small channel spotlight, large channel spotlight, and other spotlights with freedom points and a lot of other prizes to encourage you to help each other grow. Here's how it works. First you fill in your information like I have done. You put in your skills, a little description about yourself, and some contact info that you're comfortable sharing with everybody. Then you go look for partners. And here I am scrolling down the list trying to find someone who's interesting that I can work with. And I found someone, Lucas.  That's cool. I'm going to want to be your partner. So I now am waiting for Lucas to accept my partnership invitation. And if you do, we're going to help each other grow, Lucas. Score! So tell me in the comments below what you think of this feature. Instead of looking for people randomly through the comments, hey, I'm a Minecrafter. Who wants to work with me? Now let you do it in an organized double opt-in way where you both have to accept each other so that you can work together to help each other grow. Do you like this idea? Tell us how to improve it down there in the comments below. We read every single comment, but we cannot reply to every single comment. You can be sure however everything you write gets read. Alright guys, LFG is one of many new features coming to the Freedom Dashboard. I hope you enjoy what we are building for you so that we can grow faster and we can grow together as a family. Freedom is all about that. Be free. Till next time guys, you've been watching... And click the second video to see how to monetize all of your videos with just a few clicks to enable all ad formats and monetize in all countries. And we will grow together as a family because this is the Freedom Family. You are part of it. We are all part of it. And we're all growing together. So grow with us and partner with Freedom. That play now button right there on the video bar is all you need to click to get started.


Musicians regularly talk about having writer's block or creative blocks. The confusion in this state is very real But in my experience, there's never been a musician I couldn't coach out of it as long as they followed through on what we figured out Let's first talk about the root of these blocks. Being that the artist isn't happy with what they're trying to create The creation isn't living up to their standards of what's worthy of further development. In this video I want to talk about how you get past writer's block in the songwriting process Hi, I'm Jesse Cannon. This is Muse Formation. Since you always need to trust your gut while writing a song You need to take blocks seriously and while pushing through a block can often work Many people have already tried to push through it and are getting nowhere So let's talk about some thoughts on how you get through writer's block that you may have not heard before The first is emotional evolution. It can often be confusing since a creative block can come from being a different person Emotionally than the last time you were writing songs that you really enjoyed. I along with many other record producer friends Tell every musician that they should never stop writing since this is the most common cause of writer's block Is that you just don't feel the same as you used to when you hear a song when you go too long between batches of writing songs Skipping ahead can leave you confused about the emotions you're having in present time You felt one way in the past and now you feel an entirely different way So songs don't have the same resonance that they used to needing to express an emotion That's different than those you've expressed before can lead to your gut being unsure if the emotion is as Resonant as songs used to be to you Especially if you recently went through heartbreak or you wrote your best songs during a heartbreak and you're now happy But if you don't follow the advice to never stop writing or are now in a block This advice is of little help at this moment What you now need to do is acknowledge you're a different person emotionally and figure out that if you're less fragile Than you used to be during your last album you may not want to rip your heart out when the right riff comes You need to figure out what's currently inspiring you and perspire what you currently feel Trusting that whatever comes out of you may be a different emotion than you used to express and that's okay For example, if you were listening to stoner rock while smoking a ton of the pot on your last record And are now listening to folk music those won't resonate in the same way Acknowledge that and then figure out who you are today based upon what's emotionally resonating with you by Continuing to explore what you now feel don't try to be the person you used to be Instead pay attention to who you are now the next issue is standards a common cause for a block can be the standards We develop after hearing our ideas fully realized after hearing how awesome your last record sounded once was produced mixed and mastered Hearing your ideas on GarageBand can be pretty damn disappointing You can be used to the emotion you got from hearing fully realized ideas for so long Subsequently bare bones ideas don't resonate as strongly It takes time to develop your ideas to be the level of emotional resonance You're looking towards if you're experiencing an extended block It can be helpful to bring a few songs to near completion to remember what that sounds like Even if you're not confident that they're your best work yet Even if you have to throw them out by then you'll have relearned What songs should sound like at certain points of the process allowing you to make good decisions again? The next trick is to change perspective for less serious create blocks where you're stumped on a small detail It could be as easy as shaking things up in a small way Simple changes in environment or interface Blindfolding yourself playing your part on another instrument that you don't usually play Standing up instead of sitting down or using a different hand or changing the octave you play in can all shape up The process enough to give you a breakthrough in a new perspective Anytime you feel stumped the best practice is to change small variables that give you enough perspective until you break through The next is finding new inspiration force yourself to find new inspiration It isn't discussed enough that inspiration is nutrition and perspiration is writing a song with many artists as they age It gets harder and harder to be inspired music just doesn't hit them the same way it used to I like to see this a little different That and when we are younger, it's easy to get inspired But as we get older we need to search for it even more I had to spend a lot of time finding new music that made me feel the way I did when I was younger But I'm not one of those people who only listens to music I found in recent months and barely ever revisit the past I'm always so inspired by new finds even if they are older records that I don't need to revisit things I used to like I make it a point to pay a lot of attention to who the artist I love enjoy and really put effort into listening attentively to their music seeing what I can take from them This has never been easier now that artists are constantly making playlists and interviews can be found easily talking about their influences So I visit those influences and I get inspired from there. Thanks so much for watching That's it. Am I missing anything? Is there any way you would have done this? I need to know your questions and what no one else is telling you since I want to answer them so leave them in the comments I hope you liked this video and if you did please like and subscribe and get notified for my future videos Since I'm going to be breaking down the concepts in this video along with tons of others on promoting your music And how to make music you're more happy with As well, I have a Facebook group that's linked below that has only helpful information No one tried to sell you anything playlist or con artists only helpful information for musicians looking to be better themselves If you want to learn more about me make a record with me or check out any of my books podcasts or anything else I do head to jessecanon.com or at Jesse cannon on any of the socials. 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Welcome back to the channel everybody. Howdy, dude. Thank you for subscribing, especially all you new spring time subscribers This is usually where we get a lot of you curious spring Fishermen you're trying to get into the world of dangling and I love it I love teaching you guys new things and I love exploring exploring Experiencing outdoor greatness. That's good. That's good right there the great outdoors outdoor greatness We explore it right here you guys so I kind of like it now That might be the new channel tagline dadgum because I don't just do bass fishing that's obviously where I got into sport and Developed a career at everything, but I love to fish. I love to fish for everything anything that pulls But right now it's really where where a lot of people are getting into bass fishing because it's hot Bastard start and move up shallow. That's where that's where you see big bass caught up in the shallows this time of Years why everybody gets so excited including me. I'm still like a kid during this time So today I'm going to do a little creek dangling probably gonna end up taking out the boat This afternoon, but right now I want to go check a creek Kind of was doing some reandering the other day and came across this creek on on a trail And it was muddy, but I think it's normally clear So I want to go out there take a couple of rides Just kind of trek got a backpack on right now just a little little bit of tackle in there And I'm I'm gonna go see what this creek looks like So let's get out there and see if she's clear muddy or it's got fish in it or not made it here I've got a couple of spinning rods a couple of favorite jack hammers Ready to put the hammer down hopefully and then back here. I've just got you know a little pack It's actually my hunting pack not very big doesn't hold too much. I just put together, you know couple of boxes And I've got new bass box bass mafia boxes by the way guys if you haven't heard We have Guggen's quad bass mafia boxes not in this size yet, but we have the 3700 size fully sealed latch with Guggen green with Inserts already applied, but this is one of the small ones perfect size for You know pawn hopping I actually use them for a lot of my crappie tackle and then just stuff like this So I've got a little jerk bait in there. I've got some small hooks I've got a couple spinner baits just got you know, I don't know what I'm gonna get into So if you watched my last video where I was fishing with flair We were actually catching bass and then a couple of really nice crappie up in the same spots up shallow And I have really been wanting to target crappie shallow ever since me and my dad got into those Monster black crappie up on Rainy Lake and Canada up shallow, you know, just bank fishing throwing throwing little Jigs up there and you could throw spinners up there a little little small road runners and things like that for crappie this time of year So I'm gonna be armed For the spring dangle if I'm bass fishing start catching crappie on crankbaits or jerk baits or whatever I'm gonna break out the crappie rod and I might just fish for them to begin with because they're delicious I've started fishing for crappie in the last few years and you know, I don't dedicate enough time to it I really really enjoy it, especially when I go out with my friends So I'm gonna try to figure them out a little bit more and give you guys some of the information I figure out So I'm armed for both whatever's back in here. You never know Okay, well we made it just a hair money. It's like I'm literally sitting on top of a beaver dam Perfect place for the old Copperhead be sitting just have a rooster tail tied on so Start with this This is looking like it's gonna be a weightless bait situation So I'm gonna keep moving Folks might know it as the old beetle spin Now this guy I'm gonna take this death stalker off. I'm gonna put it on a Niko hook Katana Niko hook. This is Something I got in my MTB box little finesse rigging Option here 10 pound Guggen fluoro carbon leader a little finesse hook right there That is such a simple rig spinning setup and then I've even got a little ring here This ring is perfect For putting on the slim shake slide that up till about the Not halfway, it's too skinny halfway. You want to go up a little bit farther on the meat and you take that Niko hook rig boom Perfect so that that slim shakes not gonna fall off Okay first cast with a slim shake I have a hundred percent just attracted a bass in Just barely saw it. I got a really high position Where I can see and I've got my polarized lenses on And a bass just came up in this corner. I just did a little Little test cast kind of worked it high at the surface. This fish is just coming up to make a bed. It looks like oh He's got it. Oh, he had it There I go, I don't know how that happened. We got a mess I don't know what that fishery was definitely seem like some bad behavior though. It's lining up with the conditions baby First bass on the old beetle hit it right underneath me Right on the bank a few little bass running around back here, okay another hook up looks like a What bass? This is what kind of goes on here guys these these white bass they need current to spawn So they will run up in these creeks Just like a bass will except they're really looking for more current than calm water And this is just kind of a little bend right here. I'm just gonna throw this beetle spin out see if I can Maybe hawk another one on this thing Man that felt good at first not so much now Unfortunately That's a goneroo.  Must be a female Maybe just feeding up pretty cool. Y'all when they really get to running Up in the creeks. You can absolutely slay them. This is why I love creek fishing. I Mean you could just yeah, I could catch a catfish right now. I could look into a big old bass crappie You just don't know Hooked up again Another white bass. Oh, come here. Oh my gosh. It's a big one. Oh Come here, baby Olly That's a fun fight.   It's too. May have to go get my straggler, baby.  Oh, there's a male. See that that milky white substance right there That is What you think it is That's how they make the babies pretty immediate reaction there It's like they're sitting out in this channel. Oh, they're coming to get it on top. I mean, there's Mm-hmm.  Oh Oh really bad Like a nice soft cast and stop it right there. We go. It's gonna get pounded boom Wow Found him running up here in the creek. God.  I'm gonna catch a couple more of these guys and I'm Keep bouncing around. This is really fun though on this tackle I got these rods for finesse fishing in Canada a few years ago, and they are Phenomenal the favorite jackhammer series Actually could use this rod even crappie fishing. It's a six foot light action or medium light action perfect for for drop shots and just Throw in the weightless stuff and it's good for a lot of different Finesse purposes boom right there. Boom swirling on it. Boom Never use really light braid when cranking Just don't do it. Let's shut should be the lesson of the day tip of the day. Don't do that.  Oh Flashing at it if y'all aren't putting pauses in Your your techniques on any any kind of crankbait Do it. I mean, I know it's it's kind of a reel and retrieve thing But oh god it as you can see it just makes the fish react To your bait, you know, they look at it. They see it. They they even follow it.  I can I can grab that easily. This is my chance.  They like it Man, I love figuring fish out like that. I hate slinging fish and getting dirt on them It's embarrassing me to do that with you guys, but I got such a light tackle man. By the way, if you guys want to check out this rod, I will link it down below You won't be disappointed in it. It's uh, it's a higher end reel or rod But if you're looking for something really sensitive To throw lightweight stuff That's where a lot of people invest their money Up north and a lot of those lakes is for that not as much down here in texas. I mean, I I know the power of it and I utilize it, but It is a game changer When trying to detect those light bites when you're throwing finesse stuff and even just getting it out there You know, I can absolutely bomb this this little thing with light line 500 size reel not even using a thousand size reel So It is a it's a really good finesse combo Rod tip down let it get down Boom hit it I love you little guys. I could put you on the dinner table, but I'm not Just so I know I'm going to catch my limit Next time after I'm done Slaying the bass this spring Better believe I'm gonna get after those in the summer Oh, yeah, this is way Clear up here There's just so much brush Oh my god, there's one right here. There's one right here next to me Mm-hmm. Oh, he's taking a gander Taking a gander at me too Exciting time of year, but they can also be very finicky to catch right now Till they get locked on well, we are definitely in the midst Of a lot of fish.  It's gotten heated up and I've gone to the flip flops and the shorts Uh, the fishing up in that creek pretty good. I mean the white bass action hot I haven't really done that a whole lot to be honest. We like fishing up in the creeks for white bass Lot of fun. Um, but what I saw with all those bass up there moving up in the shallows Literally starting to make their beds so cool. And I was not successful catching them I mean they were really getting locked on uh, or you know in that phase where they're starting to find their beds Not really locked on yet. So I didn't see any really true paired But what that makes me want to do is just go out to the main lake So I've got silver bullet hooked up right now And we're just going to go ahead out there. I've only got a couple hours. I just came back to see Amy and uh baby Amy and Stephanie And uh, it's day nine gotta go on our date got two hours to go try to catch some fish. Let's do it I love fish Look at this blue heron coming in hot blue heron That like button for that rack focus to the blue heron Mid-sentence listen. I love bass fishing. I love fishing for the bank. I love fishing in creeks. I really do When I get on my boat, I love that too But particularly fishing out of the boat that I have now and everything's laid out And I got all my new tackle boxes and I got all my gigabits and all that stuff Uh, I'm really excited to be out on the boat right now even though I don't have very much time So here we go. We got hour 45 minutes to try to catch a few bass Disgraces y'all There it is There's something Doesn't feel like a fish, but I got it Oh, yeah Not a freaking fish at all Oh, yeah, we got a fishing pole, baby Got ourselves a daggum Rattle trapping dangler Oh boy, what kind of we got here?  Yeah felt a little weird Give it that had a little fight in it. What a nasty situation. I'm just gonna cut that whole thing off And we'll just start that over crankbait is now in my hand Uh, you know what? I'll be a good person Take this out of the lake There we go. Catch of the day Well, y'all, you know what? I'm just gonna I'm just gonna hand it right here Okay, I got a trash can right here. I'm gonna stick this Combo in my gosh. That's the only thing I caught That is freaking sad Well, I do want to give a congratulations to Papa LFD if you guys are new to this channel, uh That is my dad LFD lake fork dad He is uh, he's been on fork today and I got a text from him and he caught a seven He said seven ish pounder big old chuck.  So he's holding up a big fish I'm sure he that's a mondo and I believe he was out there fishing with one of his his buddies That lives out there right now.  It's mostly just me having fun. I'm going out and I'm fishing for any kind of species Sometimes I get lost in the action. I'm just having fun. I'm excited You know, that's that's part of what I the biggest compliment I get Uh, what I mean to you guys is man, you got me back into fishing or man, you got me into fishing I learned this and then I went after it and uh, it's mainly from a lot of my older videos where I just did tips and Anyway, I like to just have fun now on the vlogs But what I do want to do is give you guys more information and I'm going to Leave a link down below for my instagram And on that on my instagram a lot of you follow me on instagram It's mostly just you know picks this up What I'm going to start doing is posting short videos Uh on more detailed information that I don't want to put in The vlogs that that bores like 80 percent of people That it's just a lot of technical stuff, but I do want to give those nice little juicy tidbits On my instagram. So follow me there. Link is down below. I got to go get on a date with osg I love you guys. Thanks for tuning in subscribe right here. So you don't miss the next dangle and I'll see you


Hi friends welcome back to my channel and a very special welcome if you're new here. My name is Jen. I'm a certified weight loss and nutrition coach and it's Monday and it's back to meal prep. I can't tell you how much I actually missed having meal prepped breakfast, lunches and snacks on hand. It definitely helps keep me on track makes my life a lot easier so I'm really excited that I'm in the physical condition to do this week's meal prep. So if you're excited give this video a big thumbs up subscribe if you're not because I typically upload a meal prep every Monday and five videos every single week. Check out the description box down below where you will find my recipe website that is where you will find all three of today's recipes as well as nutrition coaching where I offer personalized to you macros and calories highly recommend. This is how I've lost 140 pounds as well as one-on-one coaching if you would like to chat with me directly. Links, discounts to my favorite things and of course come join our Facebook group we'd love to have you. So let's head on into the kitchen for meal prep. For breakfast this week I am making an easy healthy baked pear oatmeal. I love pears and I don't eat them enough so I'm really excited about having this the entire week. So let me show you what you'll need. First you're going to need some walnuts, rolled oats, milk of your choice as you know I always use fair life for the added protein, vanilla extract, salt, baking powder, ginger, cinnamon and four Bosch pears. So to get started on the baked oatmeal I'm going to add two cups of rolled oats, one teaspoon of baking powder, about a teaspoon of ground cinnamon and ginger. I'm going to do more like a tablespoon just because I want that added flavor. A pinch of salt and half of a cup of chopped walnuts. Give that a stir mix all of your dry ingredients together really well. Then we're going to add two cups of fair life milk and about a teaspoon of vanilla extract and then give that another quick stir and then we're going to add in the four chopped up pears and give it a final stir. Spray the six by nine baking dish with some cooking spray and we're going to add in the oat mixture and then just spread that out nice and even in the bottom. I have my oven preheating to 375 degrees. This is going into a 375 degree oven for about 35 minutes. The pear baked oatmeal is out of the oven and I have to say this looks absolutely delicious. It smells delicious. It actually makes eight servings. I plan on pairing this with some protein whether that be bacon turkey bacon eggs. We'll just see how the week goes but I'm going to have this as part of my breakfast this week. I'll go ahead and put points calories macros here on the screen for you. For lunch this week I am making chili. I have been craving chili. This is packed with fiber packed with protein exactly what I need. So let me show you what's in the recipe. First you're going to need a yellow onion, minced garlic, a can of diced tomatoes with green chilies. The recipe actually calls for three cans of black beans but I'm doing two cans of black beans, one can of chili beans, lots of seasoning or you could even use a chili seasoning pack but I need smoked paprika, oregano, chili powder, not parsley, cumin. Let me grab out my cumin, tomato paste, salt and pepper and a pound of 99% extra lean ground turkey. So I'm going to be making my chili in the instant pot since I'm not allowed to cook. I actually just turned it on to saute but you can make this recipe on your stove top. You could probably even throw this in your crock pot but because of my situation we're going to use the instant pot so I sprayed it with some non-stick cooking spray. I diced up my onions, I'm going to add that and a couple of big scoops of minced garlic and like I said I have this on saute and I'm going to let this saute down just a little bit until the garlic becomes fragrant and the onions are soft. I'm going to go ahead and add in my pound of 99% ground turkey and we're going to let that also on saute mode cook completely through. Once your ground turkey is cooked go ahead and return off your instant pot. We're going to add in our spices, chili powder, smoked paprika, oregano and cumin, some salt and pepper. I will link this cute little salt and pepper holder down below. I got this right off of amazon. I'm going to give that just a quick stir before adding in all of my beans and my diced tomatoes. You're going to add all your beans in undrained. So there's my can of chili beans, black beans and my diced tomatoes with chilies and then again give that a stir. Make sure it's mixed really well. You want that seasoning to get incorporated with the beans and the diced tomatoes. We're going to add in about a quarter cup of tomato paste. Give it one last stir. Now you want your chili mixture to simmer about 10 minutes, whether that's on the stove top or in the instant pot. So I'm going to go ahead and set my instant pot for 10 minutes. So I just turned off the instant pot, removed the lid and the chili is done. This looks so good. Let me just tell you how amazing this smells. As it cools, it will definitely thicken up even though it's pretty thick already. So let me go ahead and put points, calories, macros here on the screen. You can add your favorite chili topping, sour cream, cheese, crackers. I'm seriously so excited for this. For a sweet treat, dessert snack this week. I am making Copycat Perfect Bars. Now I love the Perfect Bar, but they're really high in calories and points and there's some processed ingredients in there and this way we're kind of able to make it our own. So let me show you what you'll need for the recipe. First you're going to need coconut oil, powdered egg whites, AKA meringue powder, some salt, two types of peanut butter. You'll need a crunchy and a creamy. I was going to use American Dream, not better, but I don't want to alter the flavor of the bars from just being peanut butter. So I'm just going to use regular peanut butter, honey, and then you'll need some nonfat dry milk powder. So to put together the Perfect Bars, it is so easy and this is actually a no bake recipe. So even better. So the first thing I'm going to do is add a quarter cup of chunky peanut butter and then a cup of creamy, a third of a cup of raw honey, a half of a cup of the egg white powder, three quarters of a cup of the nonfat powdered milk, a pinch of salt, and three tablespoons of melted coconut oil. And then you can use a stand mixer, a handheld mixer. You can just mix this together, but you want everything fully mixed and combined. We're going to spread that mixture in the bottom of any type of dish. It doesn't really matter. You're just going to add your mixture and then using wax paper, spread it out evenly. We're going to place the Perfect Bars in the refrigerator until they are solid. One hour later. So the bars have hardened. The coconut oil is essential to make them the hardened consistency of a bar. So I'm going to go ahead and cut this into 24 bars and I'll be back to share points, calories, and macros. So I cut them into 24 bars. So they're actually really good sized bars for the point. So I'll go ahead and put all of the information here on the screen for you. Thank you for joining me for this week's meal prep.  It is linked at the top of the description box. And if you are excited for another meal prep, give it a big thumbs up. Make sure you're subscribed and your bells on so you never miss a future video. Also, down in that description box, you'll find nutrition coaching, links and discounts to my favorite things in my Facebook group. Head on over, join us there. We'd love to have you. And that's how you can keep up with me just a little bit more day to day. Thank you so much for watching. Happy Monday and I'll see you in the next one. Bye.


experience WordPress Multi-Site basically thinking through how you might use WordPress Multi-Site or how you are using WordPress Multi-Site to support a community of tens, hundreds, thousands of publishers. And so given that I started talking and I'm hoping others will, I'll give you a little bit of my background with WordPress Multi-Site and then we can share other people want to chime in and talk about what they've done. So back in 2006 I started a prototype for what would be UMW blogs with WordPress Multi-Site and it's actually interesting because around that time there was someone at the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill who was forked WordPress and had kind of created a WordPress Multi-Site system but it wasn't WordPress what was known at the time as WordPress Multi-User or MPMU. They had created their own and I was using that for a minute and I probably have blog posts about it but soon after WordPress announced WordPress.com and WordPress.com is obviously the most notable WordPress Multi-Site instance in that it's a single WordPress database that can run thousands, tens of thousands probably in the case of WordPress.com millions of sites and that was something that we started at UMW. It became known as UMW blogs to support well over 10,000 faculty, students and staff to do everything from create like student sites, the newspaper, journals, core sites, portfolios. I liked WordPress a lot and I like WordPress Multi-Site a lot because it was you protein. It could basically be anything because you could use various plugins, themes, etc. That was in 2006, 2007 we officially announced UMW blogs and that platform, Shannon who's not here but usually is, can attest is still running because it's a little bit long in the tooth like some of those who started it. They're kind of retiring it in order to bring on what they're calling UMW sites but it's basically a fresh start of the same thing for their community. So that's one instance of a WordPress Multi-Site that I think for me the greatest thing about WordPress Multi-Site it was easy for at least one or two of us to manage and to scale for an entire community of faculty and staff and students who needed that, who had a need for that. And one of the questions that comes up and it may come up today is why that versus something like your own WordPress site in a cPanel environment and so that's an interesting question if anyone wants to talk about that but regardless that's my backstory WordPress Multi-Site. I still think it was the single most kind of utilitarian and powerful tool, open source tool that I've used as a as a kind of ed tech in that in that context and led to a lot of very interesting stuff at UMW. Anyway I've said enough. I think it's kind of interesting like so I threw in the chat like I didn't even really consider the fact that WordPress.com is kind of a WordPress Multi-Site like before you drew that connection just because of the scale of it right but yeah it is interesting to me just to think about like how like I would really love to hear from there someone on their team at automatic of like what what do this gets into WordPress Multi-Site and improves that or what do we take from like how that relationship works I guess as a person who's just kind of always curious about how open source software or how it goes over its lifespan and stuff like that because yeah I didn't even really think of that as a WordPress Multi-Site but of course it is. I feel like the other the interesting thing to me about Multi-Site and this is not something I really appreciated until I started at Reclaim and kind of saw what folks are doing with it is like how much you can scale a Multi-Site like how big how many sites how many people using it how long they can use it while keeping that maintenance kind of at a single level the whole time right like there's not you don't need you know a you don't need 10 servers to provide 40,000 sites right like you can do that with one big Multi-Site install if you really want to and that's really fascinating to me especially as someone who before this worked at a place where it's much smaller scale so I wasn't really used to encountering those kinds of numbers um like my most of my experience with Multi-Site before I started Reclaim was retiring Multi-Sites and moving them into domain of one zone as individual c panels so I was kind of like yeah I guess you could do that but seeing how much you can do with a little on a Multi-Site is insane and and by a little I mean server-wise but also like support time-wise like you don't have to be you can you can keep that up and running for users for such a long time and with so many people with relatively little work interesting Ed just brought up the idea of jetpack and one of the things Shannon who I keep on talking about Shannon I'm sorry Shannon but talked about recently one of our WordPress Multi-Site sessions is she went into WordPress.com to help someone and literally like could not recognize it anymore as a WordPress Multi-Site like it was such a different experience I don't know if anyone's had that experience with WordPress Multi-Site or WordPress.com the differences but like it literally is a morph of its own thing and I think jetpack and the various tools they built around it and how they're using React and JavaScript to build that has has been defining and that being its own ecosystem like literally and based on WordPress Multi-Site but a long way from from that reality. Yeah Taylor and I got into it one day we were talking about the differences between automatic and WordPress. I made I made a comment where I was like oh I really like suggesting the automatic themes to my users because often they're set up to be super simple and really easy to be moderately successful with very quickly because that's the WordPress.com business model and and seeing a separation between what automatic does as WordPress.com and what WordPress.org does is sometimes interesting because many of the very user focused features get implemented first on WordPress.com because they're trying to simplify, simplify, simplify. Yeah and it's kind of it makes a lot of sense too in terms of like open source projects in general you often have like a need for more like user interface design folks there's often like a lack of that and to see that obviously a company like automatic that is selling it's very different relationship to the product right it's a product I guess fundamentally for you know that it's kind of cool to see that that I think works in both directions a good way for folks using WordPress right like you get this folks that these folks that are really interested in developing that and making sure that that's easy to use and whether or not we agree with all their decisions and you get this open source foundation that is making sure the technical core is really good and and it's portable and you can move it multiple places and host it multiple places that's the really cool thing and that's kind of why like it's interesting to me like for multi site in particular there's not really anything like WordPress multi site that it's not it's not like there's ghost multi site right or or I mean maybe I'm wrong I guess there are like a lot of like proprietary CMS's that like campuses use for and that's kind of like WordPress multi site but not really in that they don't usually aren't intended for folks to have the level of control an individual user gets in multi site so that's really kind of cool I have an instructor that uses it's either Wix or Weebly I stop paying attention after the W because it's not open source that has similar controls to WordPress multi site has kind of admin controls over their students blogs and can do that so we see those structures other places that that I think is interesting I also I'm thinking now of there's definitely CMS's that are specifically dedicated to portfolio sites and I wish I was looking into them at Carlton when we were transitioning away from WordPress multi site and looking at other options and I wish I could remember the name of the one that I was looking at I'm gonna google it and put it in the chat see if I can find it but education education sounds right but the idea of it was being used by one of the Alaska state universities in Alaska and it was huge and so I think that they really liked that they could have a lot of control over it but again that that was something that I believe was proprietary yeah and and so so often those platforms like live text is a big one or watermark and I remember what it's called anymore that might be the company but I was always not a big fan of those because you usually are trading it's like yeah we don't have to administer this basically at all like it's just handled for us and then often not always but often it becomes not very valuable to the student making the portfolio anymore because they don't get any flexibility in how it looks and how they tell their story it's just like yeah I can upload PDFs here and put my name on it and that's what it is and that is always such a bummer to me because it's like okay well why are we doing these portfolios is it just for program assessment because do they even need to be websites if that's all it's for you know and I always like how flexible multi site gives I'd like to make a comment Taylor um I'm Mari Miles I managed the WordPress multi site at UNC Asheville hi Laurie hey Jim how are you um and it's great to see like faces with the names because I've seen names there are emails and reclaim hosting and stuff and support but I will say that one of the things I'm challenged with is uh the fact that the students who are doing um are using our WordPress sites have all different levels of expertise in dealing with website billing tools and one of the things that we offer is this WordPress site that they can practice on so one thing I find that when I look at or go to meetings about WordPress it's highly web developer um well web developer attended and so I have to say Taylor the simpler the better for our students and our faculty and one thing that I'm concerned about is I'm seeing WordPress transition the next upgrades some of the stuff is really complicated and I don't think the students or the faculty are interested in doing these like like the full editing stuff and so I've kind of cut that off and in the uh the newest versions and not made it available because it would be so complicated for them to use and I think that's one thing that is important as web developers you got to remember that if you're giving students or novices an ability to play around with a web tool then they need to kind of not deal with the most complicated stuff especially a student because they'll just get all wrapped up in the technology and not actually do the assignment or they get lost in the assignment so I hope I'm making sense and I don't know where to go with it um I'm a little concerned about the direction that WordPress is going truthfully I'm yeah I'm glad you said that because that that is definitely I first of all I agree with you right like because the the complexity for for lots of people can get in the way right and we've definitely come up with these community chats about the the direction of WordPress and full site editing and like Gutenberg too just like that you know that post editing and page editing because a lot I think a lot of us I think share that concern of like hey this is not you know not for everybody clearly um so yeah and that that is something I'm always kind of curious about is like how can you make that a clean on ramp um and some of it we don't always have control over as admin some of it we have to like be like no we're just that's not ready yet and we're not gonna make that available um because I I would say I 100% agree with you especially on full site editing like I I think if I was um doing this especially for student portfolios or something like that I I would make the default theme just not one of those themes because I don't think it's ready yet for everyone I would maybe think about having it available as an option and say like yeah you could use this and hear some information about it if you want to but this isn't gonna be our our defaults um and I am really interested to see how automatic and WordPress the WordPress community like continue down that and make that better and more palatable but I'm also interested to see about like where like it's to me disappointing that 2022 is the default theme I think that is not a great choice personally 2019 so great either Taylor nope I haven't liked the last couple of present I think uh what was the one with the plant um 2017 that was a great one let's still you know um but uh so I I disagree with that choice but I think it's it's kind of hard because I think for a lot of the WordPress like open source community they're still thinking of WordPress as like well the person who installed this set up a database and put all these files in it's like I don't know if that's the majority of people using data uh WordPress um certainly not the people I work with and talk to but yeah I just want to follow up on what Laurie said because it was exactly a conversation I had with a fellow kind of ed tech enthusiast yesterday she put out on a public discussion forum that we use across SUNY hey we're starting to look at e-portfolio programs now this person is located at Geneseo so they already have two WordPress multi sites they've got an open lab and they've got a vanilla WordPress multi site um um and I responded to it and I just said hey you know we use open lab I'm very happy with it next month we've got Charlie Edwards coming to campus from the city tech group part of the group that develops the open lab but I think there's two strong arguments against using WordPress as your portfolio system and the first argument against that I would say is that it's messy you can make a bad looking WordPress site but I don't think you could make a bad looking digication site I would counter that and say I don't think you could make a really great looking digication site um and you could make a really good WordPress site but I think I see more bad WordPress sites than I see really good WordPress sites you know when I see a really good one I'm like oh this person has a little bit of talent in this and then the second thing is the data a lot of people buy these as like the upstream data middle states compliance systems and WordPress is just never going to do that and and as much as I hate that conversation I can't ignore it if I want to keep serving my campus I hate that when when when education decisions are made completely on data but I I can't ignore that I have to find solutions for that if I want to keep the type of solutions that I want available available to the campus I think I talked oh sorry I would just say I mean to Lori to your point I think a tangent Ed to yours is like WordPress for the for the web developer it seems to be that direction when you see some of the themes and and the Gutenberg and there is the choice people many people who run WordPress multi sets here might have to make like how do I support these new tools like Gutenberg and full site editor and also and that's like in a case by cases I'd be interested to see like you know what questions you're getting are you getting people who are saying I want the full site editor like how is that transition going because I think that's a shared pain Lori so I'd love to know hey how you're doing it and other people who manage WordPress multi site like what is your approach to the is it just you know like wissy wig old school editor classic editor done or what no I I definitely support the Gutenberg editor with the students but I when I look at some of these things like the full site editing or whatever it just it's complicated to me so for someone who's a novice or brand new to WordPress to throw them that kind of instructions it's it's just beyond it's it's it's not necessary for them to get a feel for what WordPress is about and building websites is about and communicating on the web and so I don't I'm not necessarily getting any particular questions I'm mostly just looking at the new stuff that's coming and going that's just way beyond what they are going to be happy with now I know our our campus actually uses WordPress for their campus website and they've just cut off all I mean it's just the classic editor they've cut everything else off so it's just easy for them to keep it updated and and other people to use it when they're building their own like department sites and one of the things I just put in the chat here too I really liked what Tom and pilot were saying yesterday in the session around you know being really strategic or particular around around how many plugins you're bringing in to have various solutions so not overboarding your dashboard with four site editors which of course we all know can be quite heavy in and of themselves so compiling them on top of each other you know but as a larger instance you know sticking with one or two solutions and then the the conversation with folks is this is what we can support in-house here is our solution for what you're trying to do and if you want to run another tool you know let's maybe consider a single instance of WordPress in cPanel or something else so you're still sort of providing offerings within the parameters of the multi-site but you're not letting it go further than what you can support because ultimately you want to keep these instances sustainable so that was something that that I really liked from yesterday's conversation and the other thing I wanted to raise too is you know I think with WordPress multi-site conversations it's really easy to start talking about the very large institutional WordPress multi-sites or you know the big legacy instances that you know are just very big ships to move but the other thing I am interested maybe at some point we can talk about is you know how faculty or individual users might have their own multi-sites for course organization um you know and when you have users that are considering hosting multiple single WordPress instances versus having their own multi-site to manage courses semester after semester so I'm not sure if that's something that you will see or if you're really just more using WordPress multi-site at a larger scale I think a really nice example that I saw was a conference that used a WordPress multi-site so that they had a domain for each year so they could leave the past years alone and just keep picking a new modern theme each year without changing the old one I thought it was really simple and really elegant way to like allow each year to have its own identity while still just being on the same WordPress install I was writing in the chat but that's a good idea and maybe something that Reclaim should do again if we have a couple of domains conference sites that are out there floating that I think we've flattened into static html for some but you know we could probably consolidate that a bit more so I like that for events too I um at one point had used it for supporting a class that had like 10 people every year take it it's a small class but every year they wanted to add like they wanted to make a resource at throughout the course of the year on a particular topic and they each of them had a different topic and so the point of the multi-site was they would log in just get a site start writing and at the end of it it stayed there because the next year's class was built on top of it and that was a pretty good resource or I think it was a pretty good use case for multi-site because it allowed me to really focus on making that like what and they did that for a couple years I don't think the person teaches that class anymore but like that that was great because I was able to invest the time in being like like I set up single sign-on for it like and it was not a huge multi-site I think there was maybe 30 sites but like throughout the the use of it but it was like really fast for folks to get started with and you know I picked like three themes and I was like if these if you're unhappy with these here's my email address but maybe just make one of them work for you and they were all pretty simple themes and it let people do some cool stuff and then you know it was ultimately like they're publishing something on the web but they didn't have to think too hard about the design of it yeah and there's a good some good questions in the chat too around themes and stuff like that like Robin I know when we did UMW blogs we probably had 150 themes and that was that was interesting and please jump right in I don't mean but there's some good questions in the chat so follow up on those I'd love to and go for it it's good to see you green backup it's awesome oh yeah that's uh that's my paint I chose green it's like my house uh has all kinds of colors in it and we decided all of that paint like there's green here in the living room our kitchen is yellow we have uh my partner's work room is like black and yellow we have blues it's it's a rainbow over here it's cool um but anyways I think Anika did you have your hand raised okay um I was just going to piggyback off Taylor's example um we have used multi site or WordPress multi site for just individual cases um usually faculty teaching a course on e-portfolios and having students set up their e-portfolios within that site so that the faculty member can control the themes and the plugins that they use and we talked about approved plugins versus um network network activated versus just uh plugins to install for specific portfolios um and that makes it easy for just that one case I have not done a WordPress multi site for the entire institution although I think it would be helpful just to have those one off portfolios for students who just want to create something and then take it out um one of the issues that we did run into is rights to ownership of of that site does it it's student created content so they have the right to their own content however it is owned by the faculty member so I go through a process of getting it approved by if the student wants to take it out if they want a copy of their site they can obviously get that but if they want it removed from the site after they're done with the class or they graduate I go through a process of saying um I've talked to the student we also need to talk to the faculty member since they're the one owning it and of course it's approved by an institution if they want to remove it so I'm curious if anyone else has run into that issue of rights and ownership I had run into something similar but mine where it was this in this particular example wasn't a multi site but it was students making um portfolios on their own c-panel accounts for a class and most of them I think were in like their own like a new WordPress install and at the end of it because in this particular case the the faculty member was like this will be great because they can make it their own way they can integrate in their own way they're all about that I think it was for communications so it was pretty relevant to the types of work they were doing that was awesome but then at the end of it they're like well we really need these to exist for program assessment like you know for a while right like even if the student wants to delete it and so we ended up using like archiving tools to make copies that weren't even public so it was like all right here here's a copy here's a zipped up folder of what it is if you ever need it you can unzip it and open up the file and it'll view it in your browser and that worked okay for that situation um but it can be really tricky with that like is this my content if I created in your space like it's so situational and obviously everyone has different thoughts about that too like I typically end up on the like I usually want to give students whatever rights I can right like and say like no you made this you should be able to delete it too that's a valid choice um but um that was that worked well for that situation is saying like let's keep a copy of this but it doesn't necessarily have to be public um but yeah just bouncing off of that uh Taylor I have actually been on the opposite end of that um which is when I was a student at Carlton we I was working with a faculty member uh I was taking a portfolio capstone centered on digital humanities digital work and how that sort of thing is presented online for a very young program it was the first time that that capstone had been uh offered and so when I left Carlton I ended up pulling it wasn't in a multi-site it was WordPress in a domain of one zone uh c-panel and I ended up getting basically a zip copy of that taking it with me and then I could rewrite it and update it and make it my own professional site which was the general idea but that's still out there because the professor has keeps really tight control over his c-panel and really wanted that content to stay both for assessment and for future examples and because that was sort of the philosophy of showing off your digital work and leaving your footprint which is an interesting conversation about having ownership over your digital work in the end um that I was not brave enough to have with a guy who was handling my grades at the time but yep that's the really tricky thing I think I know who you're talking about pilot yeah I think you do but yeah when you talk about archival in general or keeping something around to have it preserved you know usually what's to follow is permissions for that right or giving folks an opportunity to opt in to keep their their stuff or to opt out and that becomes very tricky especially since every software is different right just uh on my WordPress multi-site um I have published press permissions on it's a it's a plugin that you can edit the permissions on a single sub-site and it's I've got the way I've got this set up is only I can turn it on but when I one of the use cases I use it for is I change the role ability of authors so that authors can see private posts and what I do that for is if I allow authors to be able to see private posts I can tell a student if you market private in the WordPress multi-site now this will be seen only by your classmates like it was a blackboard discussion board or more of a closed LMS and if you choose to miss a unprivate now this is available to the entire community and so I'm trying to like I'm hacking the permissions a little bit to try to make both a real choice for closed versus open those kinds of tools like that ability to even you described it as a hack right but like but it isn't it isn't in that like it isn't it isn't there isn't like a built-in WordPress way to edit the user roles but there are a million plugins to do it and you could theoretically write your own if you really wanted to and that is one of the I think to me the most fascinating thing is that you can walk you can you can create that spectrum in a multi-site in almost any way you want and any way your students and faculty need in a way that would be you could do it in individual c panels but you would have to have like documentation about this is the plugins you need to install and you can actually make that pretty easy in a multi-site that's really fascinating to me and and even going the opposite way too like I know Tom in the WordPress multi-site workshop has mentioned a couple times how rampages has like a on the homepage like all blog posts that are public are just there that you can see I think that's maybe a feature of open lab too like bringing that content together into a network is doable because it's you know what one WordPress install with one database so that is I think one of the most cool things to me about multi-site is that you have that those tools to imagine almost any thing along that spectrum between nobody can see it and everybody can see it yeah I guess just to clarify all the students are in roles on the same single site I'm not modifying it so they can see their sites between different ones yeah but you could like technically you could do that if that's a thing you wanted and open lab does that you can you have five you have five security levels you can make it private just to admins private just to people with roles on the site private to the community world public world public and encouraged to be crawled on the robots txt file so that's the five levels that they built into their system and so what we do is we we push into the class we teach them about those levels of permissions and also bring a librarian with us who teaches them about creative commons licensing at the same time to try to think about how open should your work be and what are the implications of that yeah that's what i'm saying at that point it's really about getting people to understand the options they even have and probably landing on three four five good options and say these are the place these are the places we recommend you land right because when every choice is a choice that's obviously overwhelming or every choice is an option that's overwhelming but landing on a few that makes sense for your use case and then explaining them and what that means and what they may want to be considering is the conversations i love to see students have or be confronted with but have to be done well for them to mean anything i'm actually thinking we're going to be talking about site archiving soon maybe next week and i'm thinking about uh taylor you talked about you had a stream last week talking about flattening sites in general to static html um when i was wondering if anyone wanted to has done archiving work in a major sense or in a smaller sense on their wordpress multi site with the process for that look like n or i don't know multi site that would be interesting but i have done some archiving unfortunately ht track is not an approved tool that we can use at carlton i talked to our um security chief officer and he said that it's not something that we should use because it has vulnerabilities so he recommended site sucker and i'm a windows user so i i was so upset but well if you want help i can send you a special wget command that should work on windows so um we can talk about that in discord okay but um so yeah i've used a site sucker on my ipad to um flatten and archive um dynamic sites and send those to uh students who want a copy of their site i've also used web recorder on some very low um websites that don't have a lot of information um and i'm also working with our institutions archive commons librarians and they're using a tool called archive it um that they have their own um budget for and they it's a crawler that you can go through any site and direct it to go to additional domains um and so we're in the process of talking about how to archive institutional student work so that it is more accessible to students um when they want a copy of their site versus just emailing me saying that they want um their stuff archive it is the one that basically is the way back machine right yeah um it uses the way back machine but it um you can command it to crawl either um an automated annual process or just once and i from what i heard archive it um with their financial process they don't charge if you crawl the same site um over and over again they just do for new domains we have a process it's uh a very manual um because we have a lot of users um and we uh in our sites um in our system our maruti site and so what the system we have in place is that we go into our banner student information system database and we gather a um we basically get a csv file um of current students um and then we compare that to our users in wordpress and so the users that are no longer in wordpress are or you know know are that are still in wordpress but are no longer in our banner system had probably graduated so that we kind of have this manual system of weeding out those um users who are no longer at the university because we only support their wordpress sites while they're at um our university and so then we can take those to those users um um we don't i think no no no we just uh not delete them but we um that's the right word um we deactivate them i think is how i think it's what it is but then we take their sites and we actually export them as a zip file and put them on um on a separate server so or maybe we deactivate the sites anyway there's a whole process where we basically look at what students are still are still there and which ones are already left the university and we basically deactivate their sites if they come back to the university or want you know email us and want their site um carry on to another wordpress instant then we can we can give them that backup of their site and that's kind of how we do it is that did that answer your question sorry uh but answered sort of what i was curious about um definitely that that doesn't really manual and i'm but i if it works for you like i have not i need to confess that i have not had to do major archiving for a wordpress multi-site so mostly what i'm curious is just how people do it and how they think about those processes yes can i ask you lory what's what's in the zip file is it just the wp export is it all the media files does it have um i actually i try to grab everything um when we um let's see i think there's a plugin that allows you to grab the media as well because yeah if not when you just get the and this is the tricky part to me about exporting wordpress sites is that a lot of times it'll it'll link back to the original site um you know what i'm saying and so it's better to export the whole thing and to be honest with you i haven't done it in a while so i couldn't tell you exactly what all's in it but i i do try to get everything um so that it it links to the correct to the media that's in the backup that makes sense i i've definitely run into that too like you can use the built-in uh as a json file and if you're using that to like migrate like you're exporting that and installing wordpress someplace else and using that file now wordpress will offer to pull over media when you do that but of course the original has to exist for it to be able to do that um so that file on its own is just the text in your posts obviously so um uh you probably i don't know what plugin you use but i know some folks use updraft for that um and i think that works pretty well um and there's probably a lot of other options um and uh oh xml yes you're right um but uh yeah that that it can be a really tricky one um and i i always kind of feel like it's it's difficult i always have a hard time when because i had some some instances where folks will say i want a backup of my site and sometimes you have to kind of poke at that question a little bit and say well what do you what do you mean like what do you want here if i give you a database dump and the entire files all of the files that is a very complete backup but you may not be able to do anything with it right like depending on what you want to do maybe you want to look at it on your computer without publishing it anywhere and that will be tricky for i mean you can do it right but like that would be less useful than uh maybe a web recorder archive or something so that was always kind of a tricky thing so you have to land on one for a process right where you're archiving lots of sites but then every once in a while i get questions from individuals and i sort of eventually developed like a series of questions of like how do you want to view this and because it's it's tricky if you phrase it the wrong way people will say well i want to do all of those things and you go say well i'm willing to do one of them for you so you have to pick hey it's robin here um i'm just i'm just wondering if there is a way to automate like the archival process here a little bit so i mean lori mentioned that you know she does a manual process of when when a student is no longer at the university or college that they just manually do a backup of the site i'm wondering if there is some sort of plugin that will allow you to back up um their site like if it hasn't been touched in x amount of time um it probably means that they they're probably not here anymore i'm wondering if there is a tool that does that i'm not personally aware of one that would do one on a schedule like that but that doesn't mean it doesn't exist um you could theoretically kind of string a couple tools together because you can um you could via the database um and it would require a little bit of programming and stuff but you could theoretically look at the database and say like okay what should these sites haven't been updated since x day and then you know uh script that to do something but it would also be a little tricky because you'd also have to have some way to mark well we don't ever want to disable these sites right these are a textbook that hasn't been modified in four years but doesn't need to be modified every year or whatever uh obviously so it would be a little bit of a project but um but i think would be theoretically possible theoretically easier to do in multi-site than in like c-panel because it is sharing a database um but you have to be really careful with how you'd set that up i think there's also built in and it's a it's a strange tool but it is a just a button within your mode your network admin where you can click archive which will essentially take that site offline but keep the site as part of the WordPress multi-site so in some ways it's not making your database more efficient and but the site is offline but in terms of what it would look like to go in and um pull all the details from that site and archive it would be interesting so we're talking about flat files are we talking about pulling those the database and all that stuff so it's like a full-blown archive of that because the the WordPress multi-site database is structured differently right so you can get the core like tables but then the users is part of the global users so some of that would be custom but depending on whether you just want the flat files for that to live on whether you just want to have a dump of like here's an html version of the site that you can take with you you know professor x or student y or faculty member z and that would be something so depending on what you want there are different possibilities i do know that brad cos like in cold camp police back in the day at penn state did that like they built a tool that effectively took sites from their WordPress multi-site and packaged them up as html sites and said here you go here's an html export of all your stuff thanks for you shopping at psv blogs you know we'll see you later penn state's now campus press they don't they don't do much custom anymore that's right i added two plugins that i use in my multi-site one is and i use it in conjunction with the back you know the downloading a zip file of your site it's the export media library so that's the one that grabs the media of the the user in the in the actual backup and then the other one kind of goes to your question about how to know when the last time someone logged in or that sort of thing it's called wp last login and it's actually really helpful it shows up in your administration user screen so you can see when the last time someone actually logged in and and it and kind of helps you with cleaning up those user accounts that way who is going to unmute first that would be me yeah so we're coming up we have five minutes but i'd wonder anyone else who's here who manages a wordpress or like steve i know you talked about wanting to or thinking about bringing a wordpress multi-site and if you are coming here kind of with advice or for advice about wordpress multi-site like starting one i think a few people can attest to this here in this group like one of the things i love about wordpress multi-site is literally you can do it on shared hosting it's a very easy like change little change in the config and the network siding and you go from a single site to a full-blown multi-site and it doesn't have to be gigantic neither in scale right not until you get a ton of people publishing simultaneously so on a guy i know you were saying um you were or m i think you were saying you were thinking about doing one or maybe it's time to do one the nice thing about wordpress multi-site is it's really a very simple switch you flick in a single wordpress that allows you to have multiple users um and depending upon usage even if you do sub-sites sub-directories it's really like you don't have to worry about ssl search it's really simple so um if you're thinking about it and you want to experiment with something on campus it's great and easy the thing i would warn you about is it can't explode and people like oh great i have the service so then you have to like be in scale mode like okay it's getting bigger and it's successful which is good i know lori you can speak to the success you've had add many folks here robin but like if you're doing it it could be a very useful tool on campus so just be ready for that too when it starts to grow that there is but luckily i think it's manageable as a tool like even as a single admin i think if you can manage wordpress you're not that far away from being able to manage a full-blown wordpress multi-site for hundreds or even thousands of users so that's my advice steve if you're looking from other people here have a lot of great advice they've been through this but em if you're imagining this as a potential useful tool you've come to the right community with reclaim to get help along the way because it is a very i found it one of the most useful tools that we had on campus at my time as an ed tech far not so i would add one thing about starting a multi-site on your campus our multi-site is do not go crazy on a ton of themes keep it restricted just a few some simple ones and then some more that you know have more bells and whistles because i did that and then it was really hard to scale back and one thing we tell our users is that if you know oh i don't really like these themes they have the right to go get their own wordpress instance and load up whatever themes and plugins they want to so i mean that's the advice i'd give to you don't don't go overboard with plugins and things because you can really do it and get yourself in trouble oh yeah i have conversations with a couple of faculty and students who have their own wordpress sites and say be careful with the amount of plugins and themes you have in your wordpress instance one because it takes up storage second every wordpress plugin is an additional database that you add and i can also have vulnerabilities to it if it's not kept up by the developer and so the more plugins you have the more vulnerabilities you have and the more you have to upkeep your your website so i'm definitely in favor of keeping it low low stakes low scale only a couple things my question is if i do create this institution-wide wordpress site for e-portfolios and we have some existing e-portfolios for students and faculty that we can move i would need to create a redirection but does the site still the original sites still have to be active like the c-panel in which it was created in not for redirection as long as it's pointed as long as the actual domain is pointed to the right place then the c-panel shouldn't have anything to do with it it kind of it kind of depends right you need something to read like if you can do it in dns like you can point the domain to the that existed over here to the new multi-site you can totally map domains and that's super easy to do but if it's something like you want the new url like there is a new url say it's mycoolsite.com and we move it to mycoolsite.wordpressmulti-site.com and you want that to be the actual visible url and you don't want to map the domain sometimes there are times you want to do that you would probably need to keep the old c-panel in that instance but most the part you can you can map domains and multi-site there's ways to do that so then yeah we'll need a separate conversation for that yeah i would say also thinking about that and then thinking about what lori was saying bringing existing portfolios that people have already built out into a wordpress multi-site does prompt conversations about four people who have it installed all these plugins all these themes and who say hey no i want to keep this available you know just in case or no i'm still using this i want this to be part of the site that does mean pulling it into the wordpress multi-site and that does mean making it available for all of the users and thinking about what that ends up meaning for everybody and for you as an admin and long-term management yeah if they have any themes or plugins that they were using that they want keep those will have to be part yeah and also in my experience a lot of users would say well no it's not active right now i'm not using it right now but you know i might change my mind i want to keep it i was lori you mentioned like the conversation of like hey you know you can take when you outgrow what you can do here you can take it your site and move it to a different place like i always kind of loved those conversations because it was sort of like a hey your project is like lost outgrown this little garden right when now we need its own space you can do things with this like it can be kind of tricky or at least at least i always had anxiety around those when i first had those conversations of like they're gonna be mad or whatever that i can't help them but like it matters so much the tone right and say like okay we we can't offer that here but here are really good options this is where we can point you to get started here's how moving it would look you know or or maybe we'll help you with it depending on what you're able to offer um and a lot of times people were kind of excited to take that next step and say like oh and i'll be able to do like multiple sites if i want to and all this other stuff and obviously then you get in the hole not and not everyone wants that of course but um i was surprised at how often that was actually like a really like energizing interaction and not like uh i'm sorry i can't help you kind of thing yeah some people are also they shy away from a lot of options like if you are over ecstatic about all the things that they can do um then they become a little intimidated by all the options that they have and tend to shy away from exploration yeah it's a fine line right i mean i think making it simple too has its its real its real power i think that's why a lot of people kept with the classic editor and like you know it's five hundred five million active installs and then another million for the classic widgets like there's something happening there but i think beyond that one of the things i've been doing lately and it's very interesting as we talk about these legacy sites that have been going on for a while like lori you have one i know tom who was on here before have won many of us and you'll have one like one of the things i've really started to realize is i just did a couple of big migrations of big sites that had lived on spaces like rampages or umw blogs and it was cool like it can be work but it was cool to see like these sites that have lived on these environments for years now need another home for various reasons and i think the fact that these things get started as a part of a university effort to give people space to do this is no small kind of win in the work we do as a as you know as whatever we support at tech it like it was pretty cool to kind of see these faculty build these resources and be like i want it like i want it to live on and if it's not working here i need to move it somewhere else so you know there's a lot of good that comes out of it and years in the making i think which is cool but exporting wordpress we have a great guide on it but it is a different beast when you're going for wordpress multi site to a single site so keep that in mind as you do move people out um to keep all those database settings of the users there's a bit of juggling but it's not impossible and we can always help if you have questions we're uh like five minutes over so of course if everyone um people have to go um you can feel free uh i don't know um not that you were forced anyway um and uh so i'm gonna probably stick around as people trickle out but it was really great having the conversation i really appreciated talking to everyone hearing various different ways how people are using it what they're thinking about um this is awesome hope to see people uh future ones the recording of this will be posted it's in our it'll be in our community forum you'll see it there so um yeah thank you all i'm gonna stop recording now so


Right. Hello everyone. Today my topic is on how to cast out demons like Jesus. Demons are real and demon position is real. I believe you all agree with me. But the good news is that the Holy Spirit within you and I is the codification for deliverance ministry. When the Holy Spirit took residence in our heart, God gave us the power and the authority over demonic beings. Amen. And today I want to share about how to cast out demons like Jesus. But specifically I want to share how to live your life in such a way that God gives you the authority over demonic beings. And then our lifestyle is very important. So I just want to share about that. So, yes, the deliverance ministry of Jesus is the standard for is the standard. So when we look at the deliverance ministry of Jesus, you will notice that it was very simple. It was very straightforward and it was very powerful. His power over demonic spirit was very absolute. Jesus did not use any kind of superstitious rituals nor did he take around two or three hours to cast out one demonic spirit from a person. Amen. But, you know, he did it instantly. And Jesus is our example. So we need to follow the standard which Jesus said. So we need to live the kind of lifestyle that Jesus lived. So, in order to cast out demons just like Jesus, we need to learn the basic before the battle.  And even the people who are competing in the Olympics, they go through a lot of training before the Olympics began. So, likewise, we are in the battlefield and we need to train ourselves in such a way that we prepare ourselves for the battle. And then, you know, like just like sandcastle under the waves of the ocean, the demonic power will dissolve under the power of the Holy Spirit. And God has given us that authority. So I just want to share what are the basic keys. The first one I want to talk about is we need to spend time in the presence of God. We see in Acts chapter 4 verse 13 it says, you know, the member of the councils were enmeshed when they saw the bonus of Peter and John. For they concede they were ordinary men with no special training in the scriptures. They also recognized them as men who had been with Jesus. So the people recognized that Peter and John, they were just ordinary people, but they noticed that they were with Jesus. So, and also in Mark chapter 9, when we read the story, you know, like Peter and John, they were in the mountaintop with Jesus and the other disciples, they were in the valley. You know, and only when Jesus came to the valley, you know, he expelled the demonic spirit from the boy. The disciples who were in the valley, they were not able to expel the demonic spirit from that boy. So as a Christian, we need to be in the mountain with Jesus. We need to be in the presence of God. And we need to spend time in the presence of God if we want to cast out demons. Amen. And the second point I want to mention is, you know, we should know the word. Mark chapter 1, verse 21 to 27, like I just want to go to verse 25 it says, But Jesus became saying, be quiet and come out of him. And verse 26 says, when the unclean spirit had convulsed him and cried out with a loud voice, he came out of him. So, you know, in this scripture, we notice here that it was very simple. You know, Jesus did a very simple delivering session. Jesus said to the demonic spirit, be quiet and come out. So the demonic spirit obeyed him and the demonic spirit came out of the person. So we need to live in the world and be in the world just like Jesus. And if we do that, God will give us the authority and we should know who we are in Christ, our authority in Christ.  I was, you know, not experienced in the world, but the ministry where I joined was like it was a new church and there were less people. So it happened in our, there was a big conference and there were a lot of people being delivered. You know, there were demon poses and also there were satanic worshipers, you know. So, like, I was just assisting one of the leaders, you know, like, and in that deliverance session, it so happened that, you know, that it was a, she was a teenager, a girl. So she was manifesting. And the moment she saw me, you know, like she said, I don't hear you. And, you know, like as I was young, I was inexperienced means I'm knowingly fear entered my heart. And it really, you know, I became so fearful. But, you know, I just did not tell anyone like I was just, you know, the enemy was trying to deceive me, but I did not realize. But through those encounters, I learned that, you know, I need to be full of the word of God. I need to be in the presence of God. And now that as I know the truth, the truth has really set me free. And with that bonus, I can say that, you know, I'm not afraid of any kind of demonic spirit.  And the third point I want to mention is we need to walk in humility. We can see in James chapter four verse one, it says, therefore, submit to God, resist the devil and he will flee from you. So before you can resist the devil, we need to humble ourselves because God resists the proud, but he gives grace to the humble. So we need to humble ourselves. We need to, you know, discipline ourselves, humble ourselves. And we should be like Jesus, because he is our example. Jesus' power over the forces of darkness was very evident and he walked in authority. So as we humble ourselves, you know, like we don't need to take two, three hours to cause the demons, but it will just flow naturally. Just like as Jesus spoke the word of God, you know, we can do it because Jesus is our example. And Paul also said we need to imitate him because as he imitated Jesus Christ. And the fourth key I want to mention is about we need to walk in holiness. We can see in Acts chapter nine verse 14 to 16, here we can see the story of the seven sons of Sceva. You know, like they were trying to cause the demons, but instead they were beaten black and blue by the demonic spirit, you know. So what I want to say is that we need to walk in holiness. You know, if we don't have the right relationship with God, you as a believer, we have weakened our access to the authority of heaven. So just like this seven son of Sceva, they did not have any kind of relationship. They know the name of Jesus, you know, but they did not know that they need to, you know, walk with him intimately. And they were just using the name of Jesus for the sake of using the name. So if we do that as a believer, there is no power, there is no authority. Amen. So we need to have intimate relationship and we need to walk in holiness. We need to do away with any kind of sins, secret sins. We need to be transparent in the presence of God. We need to be, you know, holy. And as we do that, the Holy Spirit will enable us and empower us. And, you know, we will know our authority in Christ and we will be able to cause the demons just like Jesus. So in conclusion, I just want to say that God is not looking for perfection, you know, because we as human beings, we are not perfect. But what we need to do as a believer is that we need to know the truth, the fundamental truth of the basic keys, which will enable us and empower us to do deliverance just like Jesus. So I just want to summarize everything. So the first key is that we need to spend time in the presence of God. And the second key is that, yes, thank you, Pastor. We should know the word of God. And the third key is we need to walk in humility. And the fourth key is we need to walk in holiness. If we do these basic things at times, you know, like it may be very boring, but if we apply these things, these basic keys, it will really empower us to cause demonic spirit just like Jesus. Thank you all. Thank you. Thank you very, very. Yeah, just one thing what happened was, yeah, we can see your screen now. I think you should stop sharing. Yeah, okay. So just the thing is that, okay, we one second, sorry. Yeah, we couldn't see you actually. We saw your screen, but we couldn't see you. That is the only thing anyway. Okay, so next. Because it's your phone. Yeah, go ahead. Yeah, I just want to say, I think it's because of my phone, you know. Yeah, yeah. Okay, no problem. Okay, so next we have, thank you. That was good. Thank you for sharing. Next, we have, okay, Rosalind to share. Okay, Rosalind, if you want to get ready, set things up, you can do that now. Yeah, Pastor, but I'm not presenting. Okay. Yeah, okay, sure. Okay, hello everyone. So the topic that I have chosen for today is fear and my title is perfect love cast out fear. So let's read the scripture. It's from one John 418 which says there is no fear in love, but perfect love cast out fear. So let's see what fear is not first. So fear is not God given. Fear is not designed by God and fear is definitely not how the way God operates. So if I reverse this and so I get Satan is the one who gives fear. Satan is the one who operates in fear and Satan is the one who has designed this fear. So having said this, there are three fears that I have listed which is very common and they are like fear of isolation, fear of rejection and fear of death. Like these are very common and we see everyone going through this, going through a struggle in their lives with this fears and the fear in itself is a very strong emotion. And if we do not tackle fear in time, it can torment us and it can destroy the plan of God in our lives. It can terminate our destination in God. It's very important that we deal with our fears through the word of God. And let me tell you, the devil is working very hard at it. He doesn't want the believers to fulfill God's call upon their lives. He doesn't want the believers to move or to flow in the gifts to flow in the plan of God. So the devil is trying his best to terminate the plan of God by infusing fear in an individual's life. We read scripture 2 Timothy 1-7. I'll read it for us. It says, for God has not given us the spirit of fear. So this clearly shows, this clearly means that fear is a spirit. And because it is a spirit, it can enter. So how will it enter? It can enter with a small thought that we entertain with our fear, like any fear that we are fearful of, say like fear of rejection. When we meditated on that fear with one small thought, that thought will open the doors for the devil to enter in our life, in our minds, in our thoughts. And it will destroy our call.  And we also, if I break this word, fear, like we all know this, it says like, you know, false evidence appear real. So, which means fear is nothing but bundle of lies. It is the lie from the devil who is the father of all lies. And Romans 8.15 says, you have not received a spirit which makes you fearful slaves. It means the spirit of fear can make you a slave of it. So if you are, if you are fearless, you can achieve great things for God. You can do the impossible, but if you give in to fear, so that fear will make you its slave. Okay, so let's, we know this story which is mentioned in Matthew chapter 14 about Peter walking on water.  And Jesus asked him to come. So he steps out of the boat. He walks few steps, but then in chapter 14 verse 29 and 30. If we read there, we see, we see that in some translations it is written, when Peter saw the wind and heard the waves, you know, that made him to fall because he fell down. He was drowning in the water. So few minutes, few seconds back, what we saw was him walking on the water, which is a supernatural act. It is a supernatural act walking on the water. It is like an impossible thing to do. But then he was able to do as long as his eyes were fixed on Jesus. But then when he was fearful of the surroundings, he fell down. He was drowning. So fear can stop the supernatural flow in our lives. Okay. So we need to be very careful in what we hear and what we see. You know, that can be the door for the devil to enter to infuse fear in our lives and keep us away from fulfilling God's call. So how to defeat this fear? We know that fear is a spirit. It can enter. It enters through a thought. And when it enters, it makes us its slave. And it stops all the supernatural things, all the supernatural flows that is to happen in our lives. This fear will put a stop to all the supernatural things. Supernatural flow in our lives. So, but how can we defeat this fear? Two things I would like to mention here. Like, first is we should know that God is with us. Isaiah 41. 10 says, do not be afraid for I am with you. So as an individual, as a believer, as a person, as a child of God, as people of God, if we only know this, that God is with me. Emmanuel God is with me. He's with us. You know, and when we say this out loud, whenever we are in, whenever we are going through that fear stage or whenever we come, we are encountered or we confront any fear, you know, that is the moment when we have to say that God is with me. God is with us.  But we need to say that to ourselves. We need to say it out loud. You know, whenever we are like, there's no, there's nothing wrong in being fearful. But we can avoid fearing when we say the word of God. When we say it out loud, that will help us, you know, to keep the fear away. So first is we need to confess and we need to, when we need to know, we need to believe that God is with us, no matter what. We see in Psalms 23, David says that even though I walk through the valleys of the shadows of death, I will fear no evil. So he is making an open declaration that I will fear no evil. Fear is there, but I will fear no evil. And the second thing is, we see Paul encouraging the church in Ephesians, in Ephesians he is saying in chapter 3 verse 18, he expresses his desire for the church, for the people in the Ephesus church, he expresses his desire that he wants them to be rooted and grounded in the love of God. He wants them to know the love of God, the love of God, its height and length and breadth. He wants the church to know the love of God, which passes knowledge. So knowing that God loves you, that is my, the, the scriptural verse that I have taken 1st John 4.18, that knowing that God loves you, we know that we love God and we are very happy about it, that we love God. We should also know that our love for God is not faithful, it is not faithful. You know, sometimes we will do things that will not please God, that is displeasing to God, sometimes we do things. So our love may, you know, change. It's not faithful love, but we should know God's love. When we know God's love, it is unconditional love, it is agape love, it is faithfulness. He is faithful towards us in his love. So when we know that God loves us and when we believe this, when we out loud that, yes, God loves me no matter what, God loves me and he is able to deliver me from this fear that I'm facing. So but how will this happen? When you will seek Him, when you will go in His presence, when you will seek the face of God, when you will spend time in His presence, when you will get yourself filled with His love, that is the moment when you're filled with God's love, you can keep the fears away from you. And so, first, John 4.18, it says that, you know, God's love is perfect and this perfect love can cast all the fear from our lives. Thank you, God bless you. Thank you, Pastor. Thank you. Thank you, Rosalind. That was good. So I think that's all the time we have for today. That was good. Everyone, John, Zeritoli, Rosalind, thanks for presenting. That was good. Some good thoughts that you had presented. Very nice. Yeah, okay. Isaac has a question. So you can present from your phone, Isaac, that's not a problem. I'm just trying to see if somebody is speaking, if I can actually do the PowerPoint. I think that should be possible. I'll try that out. So if in any case, what you can do, Isaac, is maybe you can put it on the stream. If you have a presentation, you can put it on the stream and also those who have already done the presentation today, please share your outline on the stream. Please upload your outline on the stream. I think you know what to do, how to do that. So you just upload your outline, sermon outline on the stream and your presentation like Zeritoli and John Paul, you have the presentation, you can upload it. Okay, others and also yeah, if you have the presentation, but you just have your phone, so that way we can actually see if someone else can present. We'll just see if someone else can do that and that way I think you can just keep talking and then someone else can move the PowerPoint. I hope that helps. Okay, so we will meet again in our next class and then continue with the rest of the presentations. Please check the stream for the list of people who are going to be presenting next class. Okay, and Lyndon, we'll see probably, we'll just see after the schedule presentations are over, you can be ready for presenting next class and maybe we can just do an extra 12 minutes after we finish and then go into your presentation as well. Okay, thank you so much everyone. John, I'm sorry we missed recording your presentation. Okay, see you guys, bye bye. God bless.