Welcome to Vision, a weekly show about the trends, ideas, and disruptions that are affecting and changing the future of our democracy. This has obviously been a challenging, distressing, and pivotal moment for our democracy. On the one hand, there's nothing new. We were brutally reminded, again, of the ongoing costs of the way the toxin of racism continues to infect and penetrate every corner of our society. This is a cost that is in lives. Sometimes, this cost is sudden and direct, such as through the unjust killings of George Floyd and so many others like him, and too often, this cost is wrought slowly and insidiously through diminished opportunity, discrimination, and a thousand affronts to basic human dignity that are borne by people of color every day. On the other hand, so much of this past week did feel, if not new, at least full of a new kind of potential, the widespread calls to rise up, to be heard, and to show solidarity with the cause of justice, the cause of equality for all, and the cause of fighting racism in our country and in our society. And so many new voices are taking up that call, voices that have been on the sidelines. We still heard some voices defending an older world, but fewer of those voices than in the past, and they were overwhelmed this past week by those embracing a different vision of the future. Vision is a show about the future of our democracy, but sometimes past, present, and future collapse into a single moment. The past week has been a critical sobering and sometimes uncomfortable glimpse into where our democracy has been, where it is, and where it is going. In other words, a glimpse into the soul of who we are and who we want to be. To help us make sense of this pivotal moment, I sat down this week for a special conversation with Vanita Gupta. Vanita is the president and CEO of the Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights, one of America's most storied and longstanding civil rights institutions. Prior to that, she was the top civil rights enforcer at the Department of Justice, and she served in that role when Michael Brown was killed in Ferguson, Missouri. I hope you enjoy our important discussion. Vanita, thank you so much for joining us today. We appreciate it. Thank you. I'm glad, really glad to be here. So this is, you know, obviously a momentous week in so many ways, but what's been interesting about it to me is, you know, one of the questions is, you know, is there anything different this time as we see people take to the streets in frustration and anger over the killing of George Floyd, over the killings of so many people? Do you, is there something different this time about what we're seeing in America? I think so. I have, you know, having lived through Ferguson as all of us did and, you know, understanding the nationwide protests after Ferguson, what feels different to me right now is that these killings happened amidst a time where there was another pandemic of COVID-19 and where Black and Brown communities are being disproportionately affected by the virus and there's the kind of structural inequalities that COVID-19 laid to bear is what's kind of the backdrop against which the structural racism and a longstanding issues around police brutality with Mr. Floyd's death, Breonna Taylor's death, you know, and more kind of are all happening at once. So I think of it as a confluence of two pandemics, but also happening in with a looming election and a president who frankly has been intent on, you know, declaring a war on democracy in so many ways and kind of the response that he and his administration showed to protesters so heavily militarized and the like, I think has made this really different. I think that the protests are, I was out there on Saturday in the middle of Washington DC with just this incredible energy, multi-racial. This is, you know, it is a little weird to see the mainstreaming of Black Lives Matter, but 16th Street being renamed and just the kind of level of energy. I think people are demanding a lot more in this time too and are not going to be satisfied with, you know, things that tinker at the edges and platitudes about racial equality. Like people want action and I think that that's taking a lot of different forms right now. And we'll talk a bit about the kind of action people are looking for. But tell us, you know, tell me more about why people, so many more people are able to see themselves in this moment. I mean, if I remember correctly, you were on the job at the Department of Justice for a matter of weeks when Michael Brown was killed in Ferguson and that certainly felt like a watershed moment at the time. National attention was fixed on what was happening there. But what do you think is enabling this sort of broadening of people to see themselves as a part of this cause, as allies, as upholding these cries for justice and for a different country? Well, you know, I think I got into the Justice Department actually two months after Michael Brown had been killed, but the Justice Department was investigating the Ferguson Police Department. And every week for the two and a half years that I served in that position as head of the Civil Rights Division, police violence, policing issues were the top the top thing that we were focusing on. But what feels different now, I mean, the kind of post Ferguson movement, I mean, that was the birthing of Black Lives Matter and the movement for Black Lives. And I think that the activism from those movements has been really what has changed the tenor of where we find ourselves today. There's been a lot of building of that work. But I also think the past few years under an administration that has kind of affirmatively sought to polarize, divide, use racism, both for kind of strategically, but also, you know, frankly, sadly, authentically for, you know, electoral purposes. It's been imbued in the policies that have been promoted. There's a real sense and I head up the leadership conference. It's a coalition of over 220 national civil and human rights groups. In this moment in the for the last several years, the level of solidarity that is being expressed across communities, across organizations is fairly unprecedented. And it's because I think there's a real sense that the fights that we are in right now are not about one group or, you know, one community, but are actually truly fundamentally about the soul of our country. And I think what you're seeing on the streets is energy that has been kind of built up in a level of solidarity that has been forced into existence because of the incredible onslaught of racism kind of being emboldened in the last several years. It isn't, though, I won't say. I don't think these obviously these are these issues around policing, police brutality, racial injustice, systemic racism were created by any they're not new. These have we've been saddled with these issues for so long, frankly, since the kind of birthing of this country. But what I do think is different now is both because of the movement building that's happened over the last several years and also this profound sense of how intertwined our fates are as communities of color in this country as, you know, with white allies who are fighting for a sense of a just and fair and inclusive America that there's this banding together that I think is is profoundly different than what I experienced and maybe saw even after Ferguson. Do you to what extent is though? Do you think this is or do you think this is generational? Because I it seems to me, I see the same thing that you see, particularly among young people, that I the the way in which so many see the movement for Black Lives as a movement that obligates and what I take out of your comments also implicates all of us in our shared fate. At the same time, you know, it seems to me the same forces that you're pointing to that have stoked and have brought out some of this movement are folks who do feel threatened, right? Who do feel like someone else's success is their failure. I think I think a critique of the kind of polarization we're seeing would say that this is all about fear of what some people are losing, you know, in their idea of we see that in the politics of immigration. I think so, you know, to what extent is this just about a new generation that has a different vision and version of what what the words justice and equality and equity ought to mean? So I think young people have always driven change in this country and have forced people to kind of think more boldly and transformative way to think to make the impossible actually possible. And and so I don't I think there certainly is kind of a level of energy that is different, you know, across generations. But I actually in my in my work over the last several years, I mean, I think there's also just a divide about among it that is that is beyond generational. Some of it breaks down racially, but but I think it's it's beyond that. What I when I'm saying about the level of solidarity that I am seeing expressed across communities, across, you know, age groups, across racial lines, across, you know, issues that people usually work on is just profound sense of like how we there are different representations about the future of this country and what and who belongs in America. And these aren't new questions. We've cyclically gone through this in our history. But it is so pitched right now. And so while I see young people kind of driving a much broader agenda for change, then perhaps folks that have been in this work feel comfortable with. I actually think that the level of, you know, desire to to define America for our communities, understanding the changing demographics, understanding how social change actually happens in this country. I think there's a lot of different factors that are kind of creating a big tent right now, demanding racial justice. So let's talk a bit about what what we need to do, particularly around policing, but in that context, which is that over the last two days, the policy side of this debate has evolved in ways that I think some have found really surprising. I think from on Saturday, you had Jacob Fry, the mayor of Minneapolis, you were just where I'm from, you know, booed out of a rally for not committing to defunding the police. And then on Sunday, you actually saw, you know, a majority, a veto-proof majority of the Minneapolis City Council embrace apparently a real paradigm shift in the way they think about policing. I don't think they use the defunding term, but they did use words like disband. And then in the last two days, you know, the news has been a flurry of discussion about, you know, what does defunding mean? And so what how has how has this this energy, these new movements, this kind of solidarity around change in your mind shifted or influenced the contours of even what our aspirations are for how our communities change? I think a lot. I think the reality is that people have been frustrated by the limitations of police reform.  I will say that that work is essential. It is really important to continue to demand, you know, what is constitutional, but way more what is just what provides human dignity in policing for everyone working on things like, you know, banning chokeholds. This is the bill that the Leadership Conference worked on with Senators Booker and Harris and Congresswoman Karen Bass, that was introduced yesterday in Congress, Justice and Policing, containing provisions that, frankly, weeks ago were politically unthinkable. You know, ending the militarization transfer of military grade equipment to law enforcement, as I said, banning chokeholds, giving expanded prosecutorial charging authority to the Justice Department. There's a long list of things that the bill does, but that's all within the confines of a police reform strategy. And I think what's happening right now, and I will be the first to say it, as somebody who oversaw police reform at the Justice Department, that police reform alone is not going to solve the problems of police violence. It is really important, but it is highly insufficient. And that for the last several decades, as part of the kind of buildup in our policies on mass incarceration, we have over-criminalized and criminalized just about everything. We have, and so that there are in certain communities, mainly black, mainly brown communities, where police saturate these communities, where the level of interaction between police and residents is so much higher than in more affluent communities, where police are only called for very serious offenses, and these communities are called for living while black. And the kind of, and so the demand right now to say that you've got to shrink the footprint of policing, of the criminal legal system infrastructure in these communities. You've got to look at budgets, budgets are moral documents. What are the priorities in any city, in any jurisdiction, on the county level? How are local electives making decisions about what priorities there are, why have they so invested in this criminal legal system infrastructure, including policing at the expense? And while there's been systemic disinvestment from schools and health care and jobs and public transportation in a lot of these communities. When I was at the Justice Department and we would go, we would open an investigation, a lot of times the policing issues were just the tip of the spear. They were a critical incident, blue open unrest that was really seated because of massive frustration around a whole host of other failures of social systems and equity. And so I actually think right now there's a really important, critical, uncomfortable conversation to be had. I think there are people in the movement who are pushing abolition. And then there are a lot of people who are actually saying, look, we may not be abolitionists, but we profoundly criticize the model where that is so that skews so much towards policing and criminal legal infrastructure. And even within policing, where the priorities in policing are not shaped by the community, do not are not, you know, where the community doesn't have any kind of say. So I think there's a lot of a lot of parts of this conversation. But I absolutely think that there is a push on this frame right now that also makes this moment unique. And I would credit the activists. It's the Black Lives Matter folks. It's a movement for Black lives. It is folks that are really forcing us to think more holistically about what's happening. How do how do how do we manage this practically and politically, though, because I think there are there would be some who putting aside for a minute, like reactionary critics who say the system is fine or let's just tinker around the edges. It's a few bad apples, just putting those people completely aside. You know, I suspect there are many allies of not just police reform, but radical rethinking to your point of sort of the footprint of the justice system of criminalization, who would say, look, I mean, one of the signal achievements of the 20th century is that the social technology of the police gets to enter the home and think of think of how many incidents of domestic battery and domestic violence were able to interrupt because we've drawn. I mean, think of how much racially motivated crime, right? And the first half of the 20th century was considered a private community matter and the police would stand aside rather than saying our obligation in having a monopoly on force in the community is to protect protect rights, right? So much of the federalization of the use of federal authority, right, during the civil rights era is about the imprimatur of the state standing up for rights. So it yet it seems like we're in a moment where that to some, that level of discussion feels challenging. And if you if you if you aren't an abolitionist, if you don't advocate the most radical reform, it's hard to find common cause. What what would you say to folks who who really are who really want to stand with the ethos of the moment, but have these sorts of questions, which we may disagree about, but don't strike me as unreasonable or legitimate questions about what a more just system looks like. Well, I think there's actually a lot of people in that space. And I think it is it is OK. This is typical of social change movements to have people who are, you know, may want to do the abolition because they want to start. They want to do the kind of rethinking from the ground up. We'll see what happens in Minneapolis, right? Like they the city council made this announcement. Nobody I have a lot of questions about it. I think it is a fascinating and important move. But we don't know what the plan is right now. There are jurisdictions that have taken similar moves like Camden, New Jersey that have disbanded their police department after years of systemic corruption and misconduct and built a different public safety environment, but with a police department and just a very, you know, a very different culture of policing. And I think that there are a lot of folks who understand and are very sympathetic and are angry about the skewed kind of funding that's happening at the local level around policing versus everything else that would be positive systems that make sure are in place in in communities of color and who aren't, you know, pushing around abolition, but are saying we need to transform the culture of policing and we need to shrink the kind of the places where police show up. There's a lot of folks in in communities of color also that are underpoliced, as you said, where they make a 911 call and it takes 45 minutes for an officer to show up in a way that would never happen in an affluent community or you just don't hear of these stories. And we we heard of a lot of those stories when we were when I was at the Justice Department doing the investigation in the Chicago Police Department, that was a very big complaint about from Chicago residents in particular neighborhoods about the kind of they were overpoliced in many in many instances. And obviously the police brutality stuff was is iconic there. But but we're actually there were a lot of problems with underpolicing and under responsiveness in certain communities, too. And so I think that this is a complex issue. There's 18,000 police departments in this country. The you know, we have to understand that every community also has different needs, different populations, but it is also why the kind of ability for communities, community leaders to meaningfully engage with with their policing systems to meaningly influence them, to meaningfully influence the local officials who have authority over how public safety is defined in communities. Those are mayors, those are county commissioners, those are city council members. All of this becomes really important. There's, you know, the 18,000 police departments are bound by the US Constitution. And so it is important for Congress to take the kind of action that the justice and policing bill represents because it sets the floor for what is acceptable and how to change, you know, culture through some from some federal standards and federal accountability. But in the at the end of the day, so much of this work is at the local level. And it's we've got to be OK with the fact that it may look different in different communities, depending on kind of, you know, what the demands are in those communities and understanding that local communities need to drive that conversation. Where would you start, you know, if you were if you were you probably talk to mayors every day, if someone listening is a mayor or a city council member, seeing this is a moment to start to take on. As you point out sort of the tip of the iceberg and then get a little bit deeper. What would what would be some of the ways that that you would advise folks like leaders like that to get started? So I would I mean, I think for the first instance, it is really important for local elections to listen. And and to understand that maybe for years, they actually haven't been authentically listening. Some of that listening is really uncomfortable. And and so figuring out like kind of where those venues are to put yourself in to hear, you know, and there's anger and pain right now across the country that can sometimes make people and electeds feel like, oh, this isn't a constructive conversation. But sometimes just being there to listen to that anger and pain and grief is the first step because for so long, people have felt unheard and unseen by their by their government. And I think that that is just even as a first step. But then figuring out what is what how are you channeling this energy? How can there actually be meaningful, you know, engagement where as a local elected, you're going to feel pushed. And but to kind of think about, you know, expand the notion of what is possible and to also take a look at things that you took for granted every year about the, you know, you know, the city budget or your budget and figuring out how how how money has been distributed in your own jurisdiction. And I think that these are important things to to to have happened. I mean, the Justice Department has a role to play in setting priorities, funding all of these jurisdictions, but the vast majority of funding for public safety is from is at the state and local level. And so these are just some of the things that I think are really important in this moment. They're that much more important at a time where you also have a Justice Department that's, you know, walked away and advocated its own responsibility in helping to support these efforts. What when you when you when you were in the role of coming to a community and I I assume given the circumstances in which in which you were visiting a community already, you know, some grievous wrong had been committed, people were upset. And so not only do you have a populist that's at best divided and at worst, you're really frustrated. You've got a government that now has a federal authority coming in and implying that they either can't do it or can't do it alone. What was I assume sometimes it was more constructive than others. And what was what was the key to building a constructive relationship so that in a world where authority is not being advocated, we can have trust that this is going to work for everyone rather than be something that has to be endured or something that feels ephemeral, but rather a key just another catalyst that everyone is excited about. What makes it work when when federal and state and local authorities are working together in these? So I mean, the Justice Department actually has presence in all of the states. They have U.S. Attorney's offices, but they are often U.S. Attorney's offices can sometimes be seen as part of the criminal justice machinery because they also prosecute federal cases. But when I was at the Justice Department, there were a lot of U.S. Attorney's offices that were actually leading the charge on bringing and having those hard conversations with community members, bringing police chiefs, community leaders, civil rights activists together in a room. I think there's a lot more that could be done on that front. But I mean, yeah, there were times where the Civil Rights Division opened an investigation into a police department where actually the police commissioner, the mayor, frankly, were pleading for us to get involved because they realize the depth of distrust and broken relationships were so much so that there just wasn't any faith in a completely like local self-policing effort to to, you know, that would make things better. And so in those instances, we there were, you know, a lot more demands for the kind of pattern practice investigations than the Justice Department was able to meet. I mean, people think that it's this huge office at DOJ, there were about 25 folks working who were expert investigators and lawyers who were kind of singularly tasked with this work. In the eight years of the Obama administration, there were 25 investigations and 15 consent decrees in a nation with 18,000 police departments. That's not that many. It's a tool that's very judiciously used because it is fairly intrusive. But it is but it is used in very particular instances. It also these the consent decrees court court agreements that come out of these investigations are ones that police departments around the country used for modeling better practices. But but these efforts are times when like in Ferguson, it was very oppositional and the Ferguson City Council resisted the findings, resisted the agreement, resisted kind of at every turn. But that is where in some, you know, where actually the ability of the Justice Department to demand that change and to have a federal court that says, this is totally unconstitutional policing. And until you remedy and fix these issues, which doesn't happen overnight, culture change doesn't happen overnight in any institution. It's why most of these consent decrees are, you know, generally on average four or five years in duration because it takes a lot of time to kind of turn this around. And so but again, as I said, these interventions are limited, right? There's limited resources to do them. They're really they're important. And I think it is a travesty that this Justice Department has abdicated its responsibility in doing this work. But I also think that they don't these investigations, they help promote like in Seattle and Cleveland, we pushed a model where instead of police being the first responders for people in mental health crisis, where you saw a lot of, you know, both unintended consequences, use of force that that could have been mitigated loss of life. People dying where we actually pushed a model to pair police officers with mental health professionals to be first responders and change. I mean, that's just like one little example, but changing that model. There's a lot of police officers who say, look, 80 percent of our jobs is social work. And that is not what we signed up for either. And that they recognize the kind of systematic disinvestment from these communities around other positive social supports in some ways, more than a lot of other people. It's just like strange coming together in a way of they don't want their budgets cut, right? Like so that they're going to like draw the line there. But even yesterday, the International Association of Chiefs of Police, I saw issued a statement that actually said like we recognize this is the kind of systematic disinvestment of and in use of the criminal justice system to address things like homelessness, mental health, school discipline, substance use disorders in the drug war. And so they, you know, I do think that there is a really important conversation that is happening right now. And no amount of limited justice department involvement is going to be a silver bullet here. It's it's going to take all of us. So kind of a bigger picture question, but you've alluded to it is we've got there are there are pathways forward. There are communities that have an energy, you know, we haven't seen to to really commit themselves to a different vision. It seems to me there's a really big open question about whether our national politics can rise to that moment. And we see a level of division, it seems to me in our national political discourse that, you know, I I didn't I didn't think we'd see maybe that makes me naive.  And increasingly, we see people living in very different worlds of fact in the news that they consume. So they come at these questions with a very different basic understanding of what's happening in the world. In some cases, how do you I mean, are you an optimist? Do you think that the that the politics of the moment are going to to enable us to move forward? So I'm a civil rights advocate, so I am duty about optimists because you can't do this work and kind of feel like you're playing the long game without being optimistic and optimistic and having kind of a deep seated well of hope. But the only thing that has ever really created change in this country and this country's been through a lot, right? Like we I sometimes think it's important, even for me, I sometimes think it's important, even for myself in the most dire of moments to draw on the lessons of history and what it took to make change in this country. It has been painstaking. It has oftentimes been too slow. It has been a fragile progress. But the only thing that has ever made a difference is the sustained will and action of people, often motivated quite honestly by young people, again, to imagine and make possible what was perceived as as impossible before. But I do think that people we have to make sure that in this moment that there is actions that people are calling for and that we have kind of the ability to persist to see them through. I think there's a whole as we've talked about kind of in the policing realm, you know, the local activism that we're talking about kind of federal bills and both of like opportunity that the one that was introduced yesterday provides, but also the limitations and but how important it is to be able to articulate that. But I also think we are in a moment where we are five months away from an election and we have very different. You talked about how polarized the country is. I think there's a lot at stake with this election and making sure that people don't kind of just feel disillusioned and sit it out, but also understand that real people are in real harm's way and will be in even more harm's way, you know, depending on what the outcome of the election is. I'm telling so I'm telling people to check your voter registration and get ready to vote. I can't tell you who to vote for, but I can tell you what to vote for. I also think, you know, there are things like the census that are, you know, they seem like these technical things, but fill out the census. 2020census.gov, the census is going to determine how power gets allocated, not just not just in the U.S. House of Representatives, but actually at the local level, at the state level, it will be the basis for state redistricting. It's going to have a direct implication on local power for communities of color and vulnerable communities and also around the allocation of dollars. The census is the basis for that. So as we're talking about local policy and local change, the census filling that out and making sure that our communities are represented and not left out is actually really, really important to these broader conversations around policing and justice. And so, you know, so I think there's a lot of different things that people need to be doing in this moment, but I also think I cannot, you know, we've been directly challenging disinformation on social media platforms and the role of Facebook and responsibility that that social media platforms have to provide people with accurate information and fight disinformation and fight the kind of incitement to violence on the platforms, fight deliberate and intentional confusion and all of that. That is we're doing that because all of the stuff is actually connected and that if we are going to be able to see ourselves in the future of this country and have the power that we actually do have to be able to manifest it, we've got to be able to show up in these different ways. And so that's where, to me, it is easy to feel despair and believe me, I have had my moments, but despair is not going to save lives and in fact may dam us into the future. And it's why I think it's really important for people to kind of retain a sense of hopefulness because hopefulness will spur action. And that is truly what is needed in this moment to be able to create the kind of transformation that people are demanding. I know we got to let you go, but just one more question along those lines, which is, you know, you lead one of these storied civil rights organizations. I mean, when you talk about fragile progress, you know, the leadership conference has been so critical to shoring up the cracks when there are cracks into pushing that progress forward. When we've seen progress, does this moment demand something different from the civil rights movement in this country? What what what do you think is the role of the civil rights movement in in moving forward this if not new, renewed vision for a more just country? I think that we are always having to change and the demographics of the country are changing. The issues are changing. The needs of of, you know, our communities are changing. The the ways in which young people are continuously, I was young once, are continuously really changing the parameters of what was thought possible are always changing. And so for the leadership conference, the reason why we've been able to be around for 70 years and be relevant to today's discussion and to today's, you know, critical issues is because we have had to change continuously. And so the work that we do now, it has to be uplifting of the efforts at the local level and among the movement, among young people in the movement for Black Lives and other places. We understand everyone's got different roles to play. Everyone shows up in different spaces, but the ability to recognize that we are a part of a really rich, complex, but essential ecosystem that is pushing for change, I think is really important. And it is what keeps the leadership conference able to have, you know, longstanding relationships and new relationships with with groups that are helping to lead change. And so I think in this moment, this is our 70th anniversary. We look very different even than what we looked like before. And we have to be ever changing and evolving with the with the issues of the day in order to kind of retain our ability to make change. Well, Vinita, again, we know you're you're in high demand these days and we really appreciate you taking time with us during this incredibly critical moment in our country. Thank you so much for having me. Thank you for joining us for this conversation. You can follow Vinita on Twitter at Vinita Gupta CR and you can follow the leadership conference at Civil Rights. Please join us at a regular time this Thursday as we continue our exploration into how to ensure an inclusive and successful election during these challenging times. Thank you for being with us.


If you don't know what Altrails is, it's a mobile application for both Android and iOS with a big collection of trail information, trail photos and trail reviews from a community of 10 million hikers, backpackers, mountain bikers and trail runners. In this video, I will walk you through how to use the mobile application for both the free version and the pro version. Before we go ahead and get started here, you want to make sure you go to the App Store and search for Altrails and then the app will look something like that. You can download the app and once you have it on your phone, you can log in using either your Facebook, your Gmail account information and you should be able to access it. I'm going to try to walk you through most of the functionality and the features that the application has to offer. And the first thing that you will see on your screen since I already have the application is a list of hiking trails that are close by and this is going to show up if you do have your location enabled. Now as you can see, I have Camelback Mountain and few other trails here that are marked as completed. Now the first functionality that I want to walk you through here is the search functionality and the first thing that you will see is a search bar at the top of the application. From the search bar, you can start searching either for trail name or parks that are located near you and once you want to start searching, it will allow you to choose from five options. One of them will be all, the second one is places, the third one is parks, trails and lists. On top of the search bar, there is actually a filter button to the left and once you will click it, it will allow you to add more criteria to refine your search and this search can be sorted by the best match, the most popular and the closest. Some of the filters or the criteria that you can choose from are the difficulty, which goes from easy, moderate and hard and you basically can specify what type of trail you are looking for. You can also choose the length of the trail, you want this hike to be 5 miles, 6 miles, 20 miles and so on. The same thing for the elevation gain and this goes from 0 feet up to 10,000 plus feet. You can also choose the rating, are you only looking for trails that are rated five stars, four stars and so on. You can choose the type of activity you are looking for, are you looking for hike and activity, mountain biking, running, backpacking and a bunch of other criteria. One of the filters that I usually find useful is the route type, if you want to choose between a hike that's out and back, a loop or a point to point. Once you choose all your criteria, then you want to go ahead and click see trails and then the search will return all results in the area that you are searching for returning all trails with the criteria that you are interested in. The search results can be returned in a form of a list and basically this is a list of trails that include or give you a high level information about the name of the trail, the difficulty and the reviews. The other way to return the search results in a form of a map and that's by clicking the map or list button to the top right and in the map it's basically going to show you where those trails are located in comparison to your current location and you can switch between a list view and a map view based on what you are looking for. So now we're going to go ahead and dive a little deeper to see what happens or what type of information I have access to when I search for a specific trail. For the purpose of this demo, I'm going to go ahead and search for Emerald Lake Trail. So I'm going to go ahead and choose the first option and always make sure that it's located in the states where you are looking because trail names can be repetitive and you can find the same name of the trail in two different states or three different states. So always make sure that the state is correct. So as you can see, there's a bunch of information here and we will try to cover everything that we are seeing in the screen. The first thing is the name of the trail, the level of difficulty, which is moderate and then the rating. And as you can see here, this trail is rated almost five stars as well as the number of reviews entered by other people. It also specifies the location, which is Rocky Mountains National Park. The little heart located to the right is actually going to allow you to add this trail as a favorite trail right underneath that there are four buttons. There is the direction buttons, the record button, the share and my map. When you click the directions button, you will have an option to either open this map using Apple Maps or Google Maps. Or you can copy the address to the clipboard. And what the direction button is basically your direction to get from where you are right now to the trailhead and the start point of your hike. The second button is the record button, and this functionality is going to allow you to record your hike once you start or once you get to the trailhead. And by clicking the red record button, the application is going to keep track of your trajectory, the distance that you covered, how much time it took you to cover that distance as well as your recorded elevation. The third button here is the share functionality, and this functionality will allow you to share the trail information with your friends and family using either text message, Gmail, mail or even AirDrop if you are using an iPhone. This is a great way to share trails that you find interesting with your friends and family. And the last button here is my map. And this is a great functionality because it draws you the profile of your hike by specifying the distance that you're going to be covering and the elevation gain. And I personally find this very important because sometimes though the trail shows or seems to be short, the elevation gain can be very high. And if you are well prepared and you know what you are getting yourself into, then there is a higher chance for your hike to be successful. Now, the best way to understand the elevation change throughout the hike is by holding the start of the charts. And this will show you the distance change, the elevation as well as the grade of your climb. And as you can see here at the bottom, there is a button that would allow you to download the map layers. This is not available on the free version of all trails, but I'm going to cover it once we start tackling the pro version. Underneath these four buttons, you will be able to see a high level short description about this trail, the length, the elevation gain, the route type, as well as tags for what type of activities this trail is known for. And under the tags, you will be able to see the view of the map, which we already covered when we checked the my map functionality. Now, if you scroll a little bit down, you will be able to see a detailed description of the trail, as well as some additional information on how to get there, how to get to the trailhead and the best routes to choose from. Additionally, there is a section about the weather to give you more information about the weather conditions in the area. Are there any chances of rain or snow just to kind of help you prepare and pack the necessary gear? Also, find more information about the time for the sunrise and the time for the sunset. Now, scrolling down to my favorite area here of the app, the reviews and photos. And this is really great because the application is allowing people from the hiking and backpacking community to go in and share their opinions and feedback once they finish a trail. So you can sort the reviews by either all trails sort, the newest first, all this highest rated, lowest rated and so on. So what I usually do is search for the reviews by the newest first just to kind of see the people who were there a day before, two days before. How was the trail? How was the weather? Was it buried under the snow? Was it well maintained? Was it easy for them to find the trail the first place? So these reviews are very powerful. The second thing are the photos. So a lot of people would go hike trails and then upload some photos to the trail. And once you see this picture, it gives you a better idea whether this is the type of things that you are looking for when you go on your hike. Are you looking for mountains? Do you want to see a lake? So this is pretty useful. And then the last one is the recordings. So just like I showed you a little bit earlier, people would share their recordings and how much time it took them to cover the trail in terms of distance and elevation with other people. And so that will give you a better idea on how much time it will take you to cover your hike. So this is pretty much it for the search functionality. Now I'm going to go back again to the home page to cover a few more things. And the first thing is the favorite page, as you can see here in the bottom of the app. And basically this is a page where all the trails that you marked as favorite are going to be saved. And if you see mine here, it's showing the organ needles trail. And these are basically just some trails that I either want to add to my to-do list or trails that I've done before. And I like them so much that I'm marking them as favorites now. And then the other button here is the record button, which is the same as the record functionality that we covered a little bit ago. The other thing will be the history.  And then the last button here is going to be your profile. And basically this is the area where you will find all information related to you, including your current location, your first and last name, your statistics, reviews, photos, if you downloaded any of them, as well as the settings, just to kind of see whether you want to connect the app to other social media, like Facebook. Do you want to connect it to Garmin, to Apple Health? Do you want to make any changes to the map downloads? Or do you want to make any changes to the default map layer and so on? Now, every time you are in the map, it's going to show you or suggest that you switch from the free version to the pro account. And there are a lot of advantages to using the pro account. The main one is the ability to download the maps for online navigation, because when you are hiking outside in the wilderness, there are higher chances that you won't have service. And if you don't have service, you won't be able to rely on the maps that are provided by all trails. So the recommended thing is to download the maps offline for you to navigate and to know how to get from point A to point B. And this is the best reason or the main reason why you would want to consider a pro account. If you are relying on all trails all the time when you are hiking, then it's probably a good idea to invest in a pro account. And the annual subscription, you're going to be paying about $2.50 a month. And then if you want to subscribe for three years, it's going to cost you about $1.67 for a month. You can either pay every month or you can bill it annually or for the three years. It's up to you. And again, this subscription is going to allow you to download maps offline to your mobile and a bunch of maps to choose from. I am not so great with maps, but you can benefit from all these types of maps that are listed here. This is pretty much it for this application. This is what I personally use to get to and from places. If you guys have any questions, please let me know in a comment and I will be happy to answer them. If you found this video useful, don't forget to subscribe to our channel, your trekking pals Habiba and Alex. And this time I guess it's just Habiba and we'll see you soon on another adventure.


Is the narcissist trying to help you? In this video, I'm going to be discussing a topic that isn't discussed often. I am going to be talking about the communal narcissist. Although this video may resonate with you, that does not mean that you are dealing with a communal narcissist. It could mean that the narcissist just shares some of the same traits. Whether you are dealing with a communal narcissist or not, you may recognize some of the behaviors that I am about to describe in the narcissist that you are dealing with. The communal narcissist differs from other types of narcissists. They rely on communal means to satisfy their self-related needs. They play the role of a good Samaritan, of a compassionate person who unselfishly helps others, especially strangers. They manipulate people by displaying false characteristics that suggest they are supportive or legion. This is how they gain people's trust. This is how they get people to believe in them by acting supportive or legion. As though they are devoted to a task or purpose. As though they are exclusively allocated to or intended for a particular service or purpose. They display these fake feelings of being dedicated and loyal to a cause, activity or job. Especially if it is something that you might be interested in or something that you might approve of. But that is only to deceive you. That is only to take advantage of you. They are intentionally giving you a mistaken impression and causing you to believe something that is not true in order to gain some personal advantage. They want you to see them as this good helpful person so that you will stop being cautious about potential trouble or danger. When secretly they are lacking consideration for you and they are only concerned with their own personal profit or pleasure. They are only concerned with putting themselves in a position where they can have power and control. At first the narcissist will seem as though they are trying to assist you or comply with your requests. It will seem as though they are in agreement with you. They will try very hard and use a lot of effort to prove their importance, worth or usefulness to you. To give you the image or impression that they are loyal and dedicated to a cause, activity or job and that they are always going to be there for you. But it isn't real or genuine. It's an illusion. It's a deceptive appearance or impression and they have planted false ideas and beliefs in your mind. They are giving you false support and encouragement acting as though they are on your side and as though they will try very hard and use a lot of effort to ensure that you both achieve the desired aim or result. But in reality all they care about is themselves. All they care about is your approval and admiration. Your validation of their false self and the illusion that they are trying to portray. They want you to see them as something valuable or significant. It feeds their ego and makes them feel as though they are special or important. As though they are worth something. They put in a lot of effort and it seems like they are working with you to produce or create something and to show their loyalty or commitment. But as soon as they find a better opportunity they will drop what they were working on with you as though they never wanted anything to do with it. They will leave and move on and that person who is supportive and allegiance and loyal and dedicated to a cause, activity or job suddenly disappears. The narcissist is not loyal or dedicated to anyone or anything other than themselves. They might put the work in and give you the appearance or impression that they are loyal or dedicated to a cause, activity or job but they are only serving their own interests. They have concern for their own welfare and interests before those of others. It's not about being motivated by a common issue or interest or working together to achieve a common objective. They are only interested in their own personal benefit or advantage. They are only interested in their own satisfaction and fulfilment. They are focused on regulating their own emotional state. This is why they are so competitive. They are competitive because they are striving for a goal that cannot be shared. They want it all for themselves. So your gain is their loss which is why they always have to have an advantage over you. They're always trying to be better than you. This is what motivates them to carry out these tasks or functions but it only appears to be true or real until it is examined more closely and that is when you will see that it is not real or genuine. It is not sincere or well-intentioned. It's a false display or an act. When you observe the narcissist's dedication and commitment to a cause, activity or job it can be very convincing. It can cause you to believe that it is true or real but beneath their false display of dedication and commitment is their own personal benefit or advantage. They create the false appearance or impression that they are assisting you or complying with your requests but that is nothing more than a scheme or trick that is intended to deceive you. It's just to lure you in so that they can get what they want from you. They're only sticking around until they find a better opportunity and their selfish desires and need for their own personal benefit or advantage will only destroy everything that you've created in the end. The narcissist is not trying to help you or anyone else. It's a false display. They're doing it to retain their respect and avoid humiliation. There is nothing real or genuine about any cause, activity or job that they are involved in. The first opportunity they get to take advantage of you and exploit you for their own benefit or gain they will take it. Be cautious around people who are too kind or friendly people who put in too much effort too soon people who seem too eager to be around you they are only interested in the attention and aberration to feel like they are something significant or valuable but they conceal their motives by giving you the appearance or impression of them being loyal or dedicated to the cause, activity or job. The narcissist is not trying to help you they are just using you for their own needs. Thank you for watching and I'll talk to you soon.


Hello. Welcome back from the break. So Jim talked a little bit before about the three systems that make up domains and how they work together. In this session, we're going to be taking a little bit of a deeper dive into WordPress. Later on, we'll do a similar thing for WHMCS and for WHM. So I'm going to share my screen and just walk you through the first steps of what it looks like, what your resources as an admin will be in backend, and generally how that should work for you. Lauren, you can jump in at any point if I start making mistakes. But let's get started. So this is the page that Jim showed you before, the domain of one's own landing page for state you admins. Your domain of one's own instance should have a similar thing. This is based on a plot, which is just a small template that makes it pretty easy to set up pretty quick out of the box, ready to go. And it's got the links, as Jim showed you, it's got a couple more resources. And to go to WordPress, you would hop over here and then click log in. Now I've actually already done this just to make it quick and easy, so I don't have to go through all that fuss. So here's what it will look like for a user. They will come to this homepage. This is sort of our out of the box way that this will look. It's got, you can see branding. It's got this little logo, which is really nice. It's just allows you to make it a little more personalized to your institution. So when things are getting set up, it won't be this background. It'll be something that you send in something that reflects your campus, your institution's personality, whatever you want it to look like. So this site WordPress is what we use as a wrapper to deliver the C panel, the control panel that has all of the tools in a domain of one's own user toolbox to do whatever they want. We talked to earlier a bit about how domain of one's own can be a really personal experience depending on what you want to accomplish, depending on why you signed up, depending on just the purpose that your institution wants to provide. But a user coming to this site for the first time will see functionally this. They'll click get started. This will take them to the single sign-on portal and that'll get them set up in the system for the first time. It'll provision them with a WordPress user account and it'll set them up in WHMCS as just a person who's logged in. I'm actually not going to click get started because this site, which is our sample site, doesn't have SSO integrated because the idea is that you even could log in, become a user, test things out and make sure that they're working and see what it's like actually, not make sure that they're working but what it would be like to be a user at your institution. Can't do that with SSO because we don't have that for you for your email. It just wouldn't work. So instead of doing that, this get started button would take you to a place to log in, place to set up an account with your email, Google, however you want to do it. Yeah, I was going to say really quick. So StateU is a demo domain of one's own school that anyone has access to as a testing playground. So you could go up to stateu.org right now and follow along with us if you wanted to and click get started and sign up for a demo account or you can just follow along on your own home page branding site, you know, but that getting started is for each school will look a bit different depending on what single sign on you have. For us, it's going to link out to like Google or Facebook or something where you can log in. But then also we want to have a place behind the scenes to log in as well. So that said, I'm going to hop in to what it would look like from the admin perspective. It's almost exactly the same. The only thing that's different is if you log in as an admin as we've done over here, here's the little reclaim admin tab. You would see this top menu and this top menu is probably familiar to you. If you've ever worked in WordPress before depending on whether or not you're an admin, you'll have a couple more options in the menu. We are an admin. We got lots of power. So this is just what it would look like for you and we're going to hop into the dashboard which is the back end of WordPress where you can do whatever you want. It says to failed login attempts today. That is us failing to log in. Not in preparation. That is us security. We're penetration testing this system. Because we know it's being pulled back. Exactly. So this should look again if you're familiar with WordPress, pretty standard. The dashboard just shows you a couple of different tools and resources. Things that you might want to know at a glance as it says right over here. But I'm going to quickly go through the left hand menu just a couple of things that are pretty standard and pretty useful. So over here, let's see. We're going to start with the theme, I think. I think that's where I want to start. So I talked earlier about how we're using WordPress as a wrapper to deliver that control panel, that toolbox for your users. And the way that we've done that is we've created a custom theme that brings in the branding that we talked about earlier as well as the account that is living on the server and delivers it all as one to your user when they sign in to WordPress. We're doing that, as I said, with a child theme that were in your menu would say something about your institution. Here, this is StateU. So that sort of branding. But this is where you would control all of the styling and special switching up of the look in general. If you've worked with WordPress, you know that WordPress has its own native tools to customize the look. Because of the custom code that goes into bringing the WordPress and the cPanel together, we have a special place to do that styling because if you use WordPress' built-in tools, it won't know what to do with the cPanel part and it will break. That's your warning. So you can go through it. Don't change your theme. We'll get to that in a second. Go ahead, Lauren. Oh, I was just going to say. I mean, it is possible to change the look and feel of your homepage. In fact, a lot of our domain schools have done that. So you can use obviously the customization options here in the child theme to do that. Or if you're looking for an entirely different look and feel and you want to use a different theme completely, it's possible. It just requires us to take that custom code, which we have embedded in the child theme and put it in whatever theme you want to use. So for instance, UNF is a great example. They have built out a custom homepage. Maybe someone could add it to the Discord chat now. But if you're working with a different theme, just let us know and we can work with you to get that custom code embedded. Just a little bit of a process on our end. Just as Tyler was saying, just don't go in and change it on your own because then obviously everything would break because that custom code would go away. So just help us help you. It's important to note too that there's a lot you can do without changing the actual theme, right? Like everything below the navigation is possible to edit with the WordPress tools or using something like Elementor as well. So there's a lot of schools that do that too. Yes. That is, let me see. I have notes. I have a whole outline here in case I missed something. But I think next we've gone over the theme. We're going to just keep going all the way down. We're going to hop into plugins. So the plugins are part of where the magic happens, part of what brings everything all together. There's of course the SSO. Well, I said there would be an SSO plugin. I lied to you because earlier I told you about why we don't have SSO installed. You will have SSO installed. It will be here. We also have a couple of other plugins that just use, yes, instead of SSO, we have down here at the bottom WordPress social login that lets you log in with Facebook, Google, like Lauren was talking about. We also have a couple of other plugins that just make things work together. The one that I want to talk about right now is Remove Dashboard Access. What that means is that by default in a WordPress site, no matter what your role is, no matter what permissions you would have, no matter what you would have the power to do, when you log in, you can go to a version of the dashboard and that version will be stripped down depending on how much power the administrators want you to have, but it'll still be there. That's really not what we're going for with this because what you want a user to log in and see is not the WordPress dashboard, it's their cPanel dashboard. You want them to log in and right away see the tools that they have. Sorry, go ahead. Yeah. Remove Dashboard Access is part of the toolkit that we use to just make sure that the embed is working. Absolutely. I think that's a good, something else to just note about plugins in general. Same kind of rule of thumb for themes as plugins. If it's installed and activated, there's probably a good reason why. Just keep that in mind before you go through and uninstall the short code plugin or limit logins, for example. Those all have really important roles. Alternatively, if there's a plugin that you want to add for an additional function, for instance, I think Georgetown and a couple of other schools have a plugin that allows them to have additional fields in the user list, which we're going to go to in a second. If there's a plugin that you want to install, just chat with us first to make sure that there's no conflict with Domain of One Zone, and we can work with you to figure out the best function to bring those in. The other plugin that I wanted to mention here is User Switching. This is probably my favorite part of the main WordPress homepage, and I'll show you how it works. It's actually in the user list. If you hover over, again, this is a demo school, so your users will look a bit different here. If you hover over any account, you'll see a switch to button. That is really cool as an admin, because right now you can see at the top, I'm logged in as admin for this domain's homepage, but I could switch into any end user account, which means I can mask as the user and see exactly what they see. So when troubleshooting, it becomes much easier to work, because you don't have to be sitting next to the user to do that. You could just switch into their account, see what they're seeing, and then help them accordingly. The other thing I want to mention about this user list while we're here is that each entry does not necessarily mean that each person has a C-panel account. In fact, it means that each one of these people has, at bare minimum, logged in with single sign-on. Regardless of account or not, if someone has logged in and authenticated with single sign-on, that record is going to be here. The way that we differentiate between logging in versus having an actual account is through WordPress roles. WordPress roles become really important when navigating in the homepage. Because I'm in a demo school, it's a bit harder to see the difference between subscriber versus author. So I'll try to share some visuals in Discord as well. But subscriber is associated with someone who has logged in but doesn't yet have an account. This could also mean if you have the request form up, if you want folks to request a C-panel account instead of just automatically being able to sign up for one, that subscriber role is going to associate them with that request form, where they're somewhere in the process of still needing to request an account or they've requested an account and they're waiting on it to be approved. So the way that you would approve someone to get an account is by switching their role from subscriber to author. I'm going to use a test account here called gemgroom. I was just going to quickly hop in and say that we don't have the request form activated on this particular site. We can't demonstrate it for you. For all the same reasons, we can't show you a single sign-on. Yeah. We'll make sure to have visuals in the Discord too just to make that clear. But it's very easy to have the request form. It's just associated with single sign-on. So we can say, all right, anybody who logs in automatically associate them with a subscriber role, which is going to mean request form. Anybody who logs in automatically associate them with the author role, which means sign-up form or cPanel. So you can easily flip that switch. So for instance, if you want to have the request form on 90% of the time, but for this one week, you're running a domains camp workshop or something and you know that everybody logging in is going to automatically be approved, we can quickly turn that request form off. So let's say gemgroom has requested an account we want to give him permission to sign up for an account. So we're going to change his role. Right now it's set as author, but if you ever needed to change that role for someone, let me see if I can zoom in here a little bit. You would check their user list and you could click change role from subscriber to author and then you would click change. So that's kind of how we're doing that. That's how we're handling it there. So if gem was set to subscriber, you know, I could change him to author just like that and click change since he already has the ability to see a sign up form. I'm going to show you what that looks like because I can actually switch into Jim's account here. So switching in, I'm going to log in as Jim and you can see at the top, how do you gemgroom? So, but I could switch back to an admin role if I wanted to. So again, I can mask it as that end user, sign up as the user if I wanted to. Obviously domain of one's own is meant to be a bit self-service. So, you know, it's cool to give your end users a chance to sign up on their own and let them choose their own domain name, but every domain school has a slightly different workflow for signing up. So this part of the session is really just to show you those options. So let's say I was going to sign up for Ilovedomains.stateu.org. On brand. Right, exactly. So this would be your project URL. Some schools say we don't want our users to sign up for a domain. We just want them to be given one based off of single sign on credentials. That's possible too, you know. So instead of being I love instead of them having the option to say I love domains, they would hop in and immediately say and the request form would functionally say congratulations. The domain that you get is JimGroom.stateu.org. Right, exactly. So it can vary however you want to handle it. In this review page, it's a great opportunity. If you wanted to add in a terms of service, we can embed that as a little checkbox down here or an acceptable use policy that we can link out to or even embed text here. So that is possible. A lot of our schools will take advantage of that too. And then I'm going to click continue. I've reviewed and of course some of this stuff will, this definitely will not be here. It's a bit of a demo school. So you can see there's other stuff here. The main point that you would see is this space down here with complete sign up. So once I click that, it's actually going to start counting down from 10 and this is that one place where the end user sees WHMCS where WHMCS is automatically provisioning the C panel in the background and it counts down from 10 and then that your window is going to refresh and we should see that C panel embedded with the WordPress wrapper. So you can see at the top here, we've got that WordPress wrapper, all of your links for documentation or help support community showcase site. That all lives right here as planned. But now we've got that C panel embedded. We also have additional links for user information and things like that, but that is the proper workflow. And to remember, we were actually logged in as admin. So I can now switch back to admin if I wanted to and go about the rest of my day. So it's kind of a cool look into how that switch user can be helpful. I also want to note just very quickly because it's in my, right in my line of sight, there's a bit in the right hand menu that says self-signed certificate in red and people see that sometimes and that looks really scary. Give it 30 seconds to a minute and it'll get a proper certificate. Yeah, that happens automatically in the background. It just takes a few minutes for the system to say, oh, we've got a new domain here. We've got a secure, you know, so that's what's happening there. But C panel is obviously has a ton happening here. There's a lot going on. We'll cover a little bit today. But just know that later on in the session, later on today, we'll get into more troubleshooting tips as well. So there will be time to focus more on C panel. We just really want to show you in this session the WordPress to C panel relationship. Yeah, and we're also, I think going to talk a little bit about just, hey, you're a first time user. This is the most common use case that we have. This is what it sort of looks like under the hood versus when you're installing WordPress versus after you've installed WordPress. Ta-da, look what it did just for you using that automatic installer. So, let me just hop in and share my screen as well if I can just do that. So this is basically the same thing as what Lauren was just showing you. You'll note that over here, it's been a couple of minutes. The certificate has been issued. It's in green now, which means everything is okay. That's what green means every time. So if I scroll down here, we're going to hop. I generally think of C panel as the further down you go, the more not niche necessarily the tools get, but the less and less you might want, you might be interested in using them. But file manager, top tier, I love it. It's great. We're going to hop into file manager real quick and you'll see under the hood, this is just, it's just a file directory system. You may recognize something like it from your computer. The public HTML folder is the sort of one to really look at because public HTML is the main domain. So if you were to navigate to, I love domains.state you.org, you would see what we have as the default HTML CSS, just what the default site would look like before you've installed anything in there. And this is a great point to go back to when we were talking in an earlier session about how you can really pop open the hood of your domain and open up this index.html file and just start writing, right? So it can be very old school if you want it to be. You've got those files and directories right there in your public HTML. But of course, that's not always preferred, right? Some people want to install an application and C-Panel makes that pretty simple. Some single click. Some schools like to use Domain of One Zone for their programming and web design classes. I think Emerson does that sometimes. And that's where the ability to write in HTML, CSS, JavaScript and put it right to the file manager is really useful. But a lot of folks like WordPress. Yeah. And here's a look at what that index of I love domains.state you.org looks like. Without anything. It's an open public HTML ready to be written to. Awesome. Just going to hop back. So this is the install atron page for WordPress. This is the quick and easy one click installer. You'll note right now there are no applications installed. No backups taken because there's nothing to take a backup of. So we're just going to hit install this application. Says we want to install on the domain. I love domains.state you.org. We don't actually want to do that because this is HTTP. We want to go with HTTPS just to make sure that that certificate is always loading. Everything's nice and secure. And you can change that after the fact. If you forget, it's nice that you have that ability right up front too. Yes, exactly. Lauren's right. We do sometimes get users who say, oh, no, I've is this irreparable? No, it's not irreparable. We can fix it for you. It's fine. You can fix it yourself. You have the tools. That's the whole point. I'm just scrolling down. It says the newest version is 5.9.3. We really recommend you use the newest version. Language. Give me a clean template install. Accept the ULA. And it's worth noting there too, I will say that with all of these settings and installatron, you as the admin have the ability to choose what settings you even provide as an option to end users. So if you say, no, we don't want users to install an out-of-date version of WordPress because we don't want things to be, you know, insecure in that or, you know, not as secure in that way. You know, we want to keep things up to code to the best of our ability. So when choosing WordPress options or, you know, automatic updates, all of those settings, we have the ability to tweak in WHM, which we will talk about in a later session. Yeah. So if you just scroll down, you see automatic updates, automatic updates for plugins and themes, automatic update backup, which I think is very useful. It automatically generates a username and password for you. I'm not even going to touch those. I don't know what the password is. It'll be fine. You'll see. The admin email is by default just the user email that's associated with the account, the website title. There's some default stuff in there just to make sure. Limit login attempts is the security multi-site. No, we're not going to do that right now. We're just going to hit install. One click installer. Super easy. You get the chance to customize your settings. But if you don't want to, it's right there. But it is interesting to note that you can install a multi-site right from Installatron, but just keep in mind if you're into that, it's only sub directories, not subdomains. Yeah, but that checkbox is so cool. Just by a simple checkbox, you can enable a multi-site, which is awesome. Yeah. It's powerful. I also love this window because you can see all of those files being automatically installed in C-Panel. I remember as a student seeing that for the first time was super cool. Yep. I'm very quickly going to hop back into File Manager before I show you a secret powerful trick. And we are going to just refresh to make sure that everything's taken. And you remember before, the public HTML was blank. It was empty. There was nothing there. There's lots of things there. And this is the power of Installatron is it can really just put together all of these things. You don't have to mess around with how do I install it myself. Installatron will take care of the whole thing for you. Yeah. I don't know. Just seeing that again, seeing that as a student for the first time, being able to pop into the plugins folder and see how that was set up on the backend. I don't know if you've ever had had that exposure before. And so it was really cool just to see how websites work. And I think that that's such a cool skill to have. And so the fact that domains makes this possible, even though it's so simple is really neat. And the index goes to that hello world WordPress you're up and running. Exactly. You now have a publishing platform. It's awesome. So just kind of coming full circle again. Within the session, we've talked about WordPress, which is your main portal for domain of one zone. It's where you can brand and offer support resources for domain of one zone. It's where you as the admin have the ability to go in and see user accounts, you know, see how users are logging in and interacting with domains. It's where we handle request form. It's where we talk about single sign on. And it's also how you can log into end user accounts to manage C panel accounts, for example. So this is a bit of an overview of WordPress. I think 90% of the work that you're going to do is going to be in this space. Yeah. Let's see. I do want to very quickly bounce back and because I sort of assume we might rerecord this. Just hop in and say earlier when I said I'm not even going to look at the username and password. That's because there's a little magic link here. If I click it, it'll take me right into the dashboard. What's up? Oh, I was going to say you weren't sharing. Yeah. Shoot. Well, there we go. Let's do that again. Go ahead, Taylor. No, that's fine. It's good. Okay. The little magic link is right here. And just like that, you are in the dashboard. Yeah. Good to go. Beautiful. And WordPress is the only one in the application that does do that. That is actually very, very important. But in the event that if we pretend that this is an Omeka site or something like that and you totally forget there is the ability to go in and scroll down, edit the username and password so that you can make it something that you actually do remember. So you're not going to get locked out just in case that does happen to you. Cool. So in the next section, we're going to talk about the other two systems of domains, WHM and WHM CS. You have that to look forward to. In the meantime, if you have any questions, feel free to leave them in Discord and we will get to you there as well. Yep. Awesome. We will see you in the next session.