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Cumbre Launch to support Stacks Pro Development

10/18/2023

Chris Powers is doing it again! This time with a pretty insane deal. Chris has a new Cumbre project file that is not your typical "site in a box" project file. Cumbre will serve as your basecamp for new projects. It has a ton of pre-built solutions that can serve as a perfect place to start for a page. Now 100% of the proceeds from the Cumbre launch event will be going straight to Isaiah to help the Stacks Pro development train moving along. So hop onto the Stacks Pro train with us. Choo Choo!


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00:08 hello everybody Oh you mean you
00:16 [Laughter]
00:28 sorry test test
00:40 test no one wants to hear me anyway oh
00:47 wow you mess me up Chris mess me up all right hold on let's okay let's do you
00:55 guys can't hear me my mic does not work darn it okay one
01:01 second just flip them back and forth
01:10 yeah okay how about now you guys hear me now and Chris Chris say something test
01:17 test test test Joe is very quiet Joe is very quiet how about
01:24 now am I louder I can hear you
01:32 okay that that's okay I think they said I'm good okay never heard Joe so quiet perfect
01:41 okay perfect okay cool let's get started so um so yeah if you guys didn't know you probably saw my the email that came out and Also Chris's post on the Weaver
01:50 space community that uh he has a new project file out right well it's kind of like a new old project file but I'll let
01:57 Chris explain that right yeah um we'll call it new project file and um it is a a killer deal
02:04 $10 um you get uh cumri I'm sorry dude how do you spell kumbre Kum
02:13 man close you were close you know I'm a Greeno man you know you want you know you your you your Ben Bento yeah yeah
02:22 Bento or Bento doesn't I say that wrong a glion times right yeah Chris is very loud
02:30 oh really sounds okay to me sorry everybody um so yeah anyway
02:40 so com kumbre okay Kum is um now what's special about this is a yes it's a new
02:47 project file um well I'll call it new but all Chris explained that but what's amazing about this deal is that 100% of the
02:56 proceeds um are going to go to your head AKA Isaiah to help fund the stacks Pro development you know Stacks Pro is under
03:04 development but obviously creating a complete app from scratch well not totally from scratch right it is it is
03:12 we do have stacks I have okay I've seen it I don't have it I can't share it but it exists it's pretty cool it's awesome
03:20 I'm excited for it super excited for it um but we need to make sure that uh it has a certain level of remember it's
03:28 replacing kind of a frame work that's been around for 20 years right so we need to make sure we have you know Isaiah needs to make sure that it has a certain level of functionality and
03:36 professionalism that we need in order and what we expect right so um Siri I'm
03:43 not talking to you um and every time so yeah you know Stacks Pro I know we we
03:50 all wish we had it in our hands right now um it is I think not far away I know we've been waiting for about a year now
03:57 um but we are pretty close and and uh so Chris just had this amazing Fe thought to hey let's you know help Isaiah eat a
04:06 little bit more so that he can continue working on stacks and not have to uh do other things so that we can get Stacks Pro in our hands even faster so I'm all
04:16 for that and um yeah I'll let I'll let Chris talk more and um give you a little overview of kumre up cool hey everybody
04:26 okay so like just said I'm Chris um I run Stacks spacecamp.com where you can purchase my project files and sign up to
04:36 have one-on-one trainings with me uh and you know I just to start out I I love this
04:43 community I love Stacks um I will do anything I can to promote Stacks to
04:51 promote Joe stuff a lot of the people on the community you know um I I want to
04:57 see sta Pro come to fruition just as bad as everybody else and I figure if if I
05:05 can do something to help then I should do something to help and so my doing
05:11 something is to release the the project file kumbre which is Spanish for Summit
05:19 or Peak um and you know whatever money comes in give it to Isaiah and help him
05:27 develop Stacks Pro and the cool thing is is that it's not just me it is Josh over
05:34 at sta Weaver he is giving my math is terrible but it's roughly around 55% off
05:41 of his Cloud flare Dev tool stack and then Scott over at Stacks stacks.com
05:49 is giving away his uh one of his Stacks the no post replace and they're both uh in the
05:57 project file so if and when you get those stacks and you open up kumbre it will work in the project file I mean
06:04 yeah you got to set some stuff up especially for the cloud flare Dev Dev tool stack but it you know they're there
06:10 and they will work um so yes this is a technically a newish project um if you
06:19 are familiar with Kon my other project file like this um they're they're very
06:26 very very similar um I really took a deep dive into SEO Helper and wanted to
06:34 make a few other changes to the admin portal really and so I I started this new version I guess it would be Kon
06:42 version 4 um and uh at the last minute I changed the name to kumr because I felt
06:50 like I never really liked the name Kon uh because when I first started this this whole Venture um it was all
06:58 construction based and my my project names were like bedrock and you know kesan which is a construction term I
07:05 forget what it means now but that doesn't mean that doesn't matter um and and actually Joe one day had the bright
07:12 idea to say hey why not Stacks base camp that sounds cooler and I was like no you
07:19 you're wrong and then I thought about it and he was right so I changed the name and now everything is more or less going
07:27 to be orinal I forget now uh Weaver base site Weaver Bas site that's right and then it went to Weaver
07:34 Bas camp but then bad things happened with the rapid Weaver world and so I was like Stacks only nice thank thank you
07:44 rapid Weaver um so I pushed that CH see exactly I mean hey still here still here
07:53 um so yeah so now everything is going to be more or less you know Camp outdoorsy kind of based and uh and I like it I
08:08 file you know this is a really really big file if you've purchased it and opened it you probably were like oh my
08:17 God what is this this is nuts um and there's a lot in there you know and even if even if you're brand new to the
08:26 stacks world to Foundation 6 or whatever it's it's actually just really good to open it up and check out the structure
08:35 of things check out how um things are laid out you know the settings that are used the use of swatches the use of
08:43 utility classes you know there I have nested partials I have you know the thing where you can go and unpin a
08:51 column inside a partial so that you can put different content in the partial on different pages and it won't mess up up
08:59 the actual partial itself so there are some advanced concepts in there uh for you to learn from if anything and for
09:09 $10 this is a pretty sweet deal because normally the the product sweet deal yeah it's like 80 bucks um and the thing is
09:17 is that you know this was a two-part kind of campaign for for me at least personally um you know this this whole
09:25 thing with rapid Weaver it's it's it's kind of it's put a bad taste in a lot of people's mouths you know just the way things have been handled and what I
09:34 would like to do at least with this is to try to build community which is why I have the Pay It Forward part you know
09:42 you can buy it for yourself and for $7 extra it will go to a a randomly picked
09:49 Community member and I I did include the real Mac Forum but real Mac it's U Isaiah's
09:56 Discord it's the Weaver space and it's RW for all so when you purchase you will be able to choose which Forum you want
10:05 that random copy to go to um and it's just a way to get it into as many people's
10:12 hands as possible because I want people to really I I think Foundation 6 yeah I'm a fanboy I'm sorry I'm a fanboy uh
10:20 Joe stuff is just killer you know and I think that that is the the one true path for all of us um just because it's so
10:29 powerful you know and and I mean look at he's right there well for me he's right there you know he's at our becking call people you're not going to get this kind
10:38 of support from anyone else anywhere else I'm I'm sorry so yeah anyway I I just I think it's a great deal and I'm
10:45 excited about this it's the the feedback so far has been really great uh a lot of people have started to buy it and a lot of people are doing I'd say about half
10:54 are actually doing the Pay It Forward thing which makes me really really happy um so yeah um and and just as a little PSA
11:02 for some reason I'm having an issue right now with people getting the email with the link um I am working on that after this Scott actually over at stack
11:10 app Stacks is going to hop on with me and we're gonna we're going to sort it out um but you will get the link uh I
11:17 promise if I have to you know send it myself from from the the server that I'll do it but just please be patient
11:26 with me okay um so yeah so that's the that's the campaign I'm excited uh a lot of great feedback and please let's you
11:35 know continue to support Isaiah um Stax Pro is gonna be amazing people so sweet
11:43 yeah if if you'd like I would love to at least show you some of the newer features in uh in kumbre and uh I'm
11:51 going to actually start with the um the actual published project cool so so this
11:59 is if you're familiar again if you're familiar with Kon this looks very similar uh but there are some new things
12:07 so I've added uh a few page types so you have oh not oh sorry guys I pulled the
12:16 joke you pulled to me and sorry guys I know my my audio is only going through to the left Channel I I'm not exactly
12:23 sure why but uh anyway yeah whatever yeah yeah um okay so now if you've seen this and
12:32 you've known uh if you are familiar with Kon then this will look familiar uh so this is kumbre and I've added a few page
12:40 types like I said uh one is the campaigns so I had events before but I know events are different from campaigns
12:49 and so I added it um there's a donate page now so you can flesh out donates uh donation page and under legal where's
12:58 there you are under legal you know I've added some you know places for you to put privacy policy terms and conditions
13:05 uh returns and cancellations and and just as a FYI you know the reason why this project is the way it is is because
13:14 um I continued to build and build and build the same thing over and over and
13:22 one day I was like why am I doing this I should just have one project I start from and this is it every time learned a new trick every time I found something
13:30 cool I would try to throw it in here and this is the culmination of about three plus years worth of work so yeah um a
13:40 lot went into this and you know every client that I get is new they have a different requirement like up here you
13:47 know one wants campaigns one wants events uh courses you know you can go to the courses page and sell your courses
13:55 now clearly these are set up you know for you to fill in with your own payment stuff you know your own purchase links
14:03 and everything I'm just trying to give you the structure from which to build off um you know there if you are wanting
14:10 to make a food menu you know I've made this silly little food board and then you know click on this it'll take you to the drinks menu and you can have you
14:19 know set up your your bar menu which is pretty nice uh a partner page you know a lot of people have partners that or
14:27 Partnerships with other companies you can take payments you know this one set up I have pay snap on here uh the project that gets shipped does not have
14:35 this in it um but you can put your your payments in there uh let's see a resources page you know these are all
14:42 very like um typical page types that you know people would want in a website and
14:50 they're already built for you you just got to make them look pretty and so that's yeah um where there's one
14:58 important distinction I think that um you know I know there's a lot of project files out there that are like websites in a box and I kind of you know stated
15:07 that in my email this morning you where um kumbre is different you know it's not you're not going to take kumbre and build a website with it right yeah um
15:16 it's well you are but not thiss yeah it's it yeah you're you're gonna take the components like you know not
15:24 everyone is going to need you know a a donate drinks events and legal thing and a food menu all you know it's you know
15:32 these are a really cool pre-made little hey look this is how you can do this with total CS if you want a food menu then you go to the food menu thing and
15:39 you know you can create that right or integrate that into an existing project file or a project file that you're going to start yeah yeah and and I'll show you
15:48 in the project how I I I think I found a better solution on on controlling the different page types uh before I had a
15:57 lot of toggles and I have reduced my toggle fix down to the minimum so it
16:03 won't kill your server um but yeah so and then one last thing that I I think is really kind of a cool thing at least
16:10 for me is this this credits page and there we go I don't know why the background isn't loading but that's okay
16:17 so you know we all use unsplash or other images you know from different things that say Hey can you you know credit us
16:24 on your page well this is a way for you to credit those images um nice it's in the it's in the footer as well uh down here you can turn it on turn it off but
16:33 you know you click on it I don't think a lot of people do that right so you know now now curious I I don't know all the details here do you have to actually
16:41 credit each individual image as well or they some places would like you to credit each individual image that you
16:48 have and so what this is is this is a blog list and I'll show you in the back end but you can just it's and I try to make it as easy as possible unsplash
16:57 does a good job of giving you code to put on the page and so you just dump the code in and it creates these okay cool
17:04 yeah it's just a nice way to you know stay on the side of legal so to say interesting now just a a tidbit of information probably on a page that does
17:13 that um you probably want to turn off robots right so you probably want that page not to be indexed just an idea yeah
17:21 actually you know what that's a good idea I'll make a note of that and remove that make a note sorry for interjecting
17:28 just oh no that's IDE popped in my head oh and that's another reason why I like having this project in a lot of people's hands so that other people can find the
17:35 bugs that I haven't because I do actually use this project to build all my websites and so if you can find the
17:43 bugs for me it makes my life easier down the road uh so yeah so this is you know this is the kumbre project file um you
17:51 know it's got everything is all hooked up again like I said and this this is uh using Joe's new new share it three stack
18:09 click on the the read more it's down here too and it it uses SEO helper so it will share the the title of the the post
18:19 and it'll share the the card that or the um the image that you have so yeah it's it's pretty nice um so let's go to the
18:27 back end real quick because this I mean Everyone likes an admin portal I love admin portals um I've really done some some fun quality
18:37 of life enhancements I think so when it came to toggles on a page that activated things on the page once youve toggled
18:45 them on I hated having to refresh because it would refresh everything so I put a real refresh button on each page
18:53 just that's a little you know quality of life thing that I I think is a is really nice but uh let me see there's if you go
19:01 in I'll just go and give you a little quick tour of this so um quick links you know you can use these to add um you
19:08 know different blog posts you know reviews blog post events things like that or if you click here you can actually go to them uh this will show
19:16 you your latest blogs that and events that are in draft mode you can obviously change that to be whatever you want that's the beauty of this it's your
19:25 project file just switch out the CMS ID uh let's see page content every page has its own page settings so if I click on
19:34 home and come in here everything like the banner title so if I go home this Banner title and then this sub
19:43 subtitle all controlled back here all the images are here um it's broken into
19:49 sections so one this is a section 2 3 four and on and on and on um you can
19:57 control them here here so there's the about us so you can actually tell you know I want this to be on the
20:04 right and watch it now work hey it worked so you can you can
20:12 tell it what side um is it going to be 50% is it going to be 33% you know whatever you can give it margins and
20:19 it's all controlled back here um there's extra content you can put in now this is where it gets real powerful so these are
20:28 the page settings so this ties directly into SEO helper so this and the page
20:36 description this the social share card this is all per page so you can control it per page the link title um if I put
20:44 on here um you know take me home and save that and I refresh up
20:54 here it'll change the title of the link take me home so everything can be controlled from the back end all right
21:02 and then what's really nice is you have per page code settings so since the homepage doesn't have a post view for
21:11 like a Blog there is no post view code but if there was you know you would have the same the main um I'm sorry the head
21:20 and the body text where you can put specific code so maybe there's tracking code or or whatever you want to put in there it's there and then you know I
21:29 have on the side here this little mellin um Mell navigation for you to make it a bit easier to navigate through
21:37 um the about us so all the pages are kind of similar you know in that same vein so you know the blog the blog page
21:45 doesn't really have much by the way of con content so because that's going to be where all of your posts are so it's it's a bit simpler than the rest of the
21:54 pages um the about us has something unique though and I didn't put put it throughout the entire thing because it is a bit experimental still I'm still
22:02 working on it but it's in the project if you want to play that's my cat Kaylee um let's see where are you okay so down
22:08 here the page sections so I had an idea to you know how can I
22:16 allow people to put different sections of content and reorder them maybe give them a different background color
22:24 something like that per section and so all of these are different blog posts
22:30 that are in the the admin section of the about us and I I'm just going to Breeze
22:38 over this guys and I I it's you know we can do some some more with this on a hangout or something but you know who we
22:45 serve we'll just go in there like maybe you want a section for that and you can come in here and you can create a section and you can give it a background
22:54 color you can put the padding and then the section sort so you want wanted this to be number one you would change this to one and then whatever one was you
23:02 change it to three or or whatever and you can reorder your different sections so yeah and and also um every
23:11 blog um every blog post I'm sorry form page like this this is a Blog form right
23:17 here I've added the layouts so these are pre-built layouts for you to go in and
23:24 I'm using Joe's fancy schmancy new copy um copy content feature so like this one
23:31 you know what if I wanted a two column vertical center with a pick on the right okay copy that HTML you come in
23:42 here unsplash yeah yeah so if I go in here to the code View
23:52 and come down and then you know just paste the code and then I oops there we go and now
24:01 I have my layout so I have my image on the right it's vertically centered it's a two column and it's done now you can
24:08 go in and just change this to be whatever you want it to be you can even click on the image and it will act well let me see there we
24:16 go m not far enough down a little Sub menu should come up more
24:25 space maybe it's because I'm in this there we go so the standard you know
24:32 blog picture replace and you know styling and everything else shows up so you'll be able to just swap out the
24:39 image for whatever image you want and go from there and again all of these are pre-built even down to a button um
24:47 you'll be able to actually hover over this and it gives you some classes to put on the button so that you'll be able to style it a bit more you know like a
24:55 radius or or whatever yeah I mean it's I tried to make it as as easy as possible
25:01 and to give the most common layouts that you know at least I would use so they're they're all there U and that's a partial
25:10 so you change it one place it changes everywhere else um I wanted to show the where are you the credits so under the
25:20 credits thing you come in and maybe I broke something
25:29 I may have broken something guys I was messing around with it earlier today and this is this isn't the published one this is the one that I have that I've
25:37 been playing with but anyway they're all you know all these are all hooked up um the drink menu you know you click on it
25:44 takes you to it you can edit to your heart's content now I will say this when you are in the
25:52 blog form um you know in Rapid Weaver you know know be careful because SEO
26:01 helper I use very specific macros across the board for things so like summary it
26:09 says summary but that's not summary this is not the summary step I know I know it's it's actually using media and the
26:18 re I know I'm I'm a pain and the reason for that is because I wanted summary to
26:26 be searchable and so it's in in content extra content those aren't searchable
26:32 but summary is and so I wanted to save it for something special and I found that media was a was a good alternative
26:41 okay um so
26:53 yeah MH
27:09 yeah and then down here so you you may notice like every every blog uh form has SEO keywords and the reason I put this
27:19 in here is BEC and and used one of the uh the total CMS fields for it is because that is a field in SEO
27:28 in the structured data and so I wanted to let me pause uh really that that entire thing I just said you heard me
27:36 but nobody else heard me cuz I I I was trying to tweak my setup a little bit more to fix the audio and I broke it and I I so I reverted it back
27:46 perfect uh so guys what let me just sorry Chris you're gonna have to hear that again go for it go for it um so
27:53 what what Chris did here was um kind of some Pro level thinking right right hopefully you guys can hear me I I see the the meters of the audio going up
28:02 when I talk now so I think it's fixed um I won't touch it again during the stream I'm sorry um so Chris has done a lot of
28:10 the pro level thinking where he he knows what fields and blog are searchable via the the total CS search and which aren't
28:17 right so he's already you know created these things such as drinks a drinks menu that he we know he we want these
28:24 four or five fields to be searchable and he goes ahead and basically did all that work for you so you don't have to worry about that you don't need to know that
28:32 he's kind of already did it so um just a benefit side benefit of that is you know you have a lot of this stuff is done for
28:40 you um so yeah good job on that Chris thank you and one of the things is um in SEO because I was very conscientious of
28:48 SEO helper when I was doing all this again I mean I went deep deep dive into SEO helper um you know even down to
28:57 getting on to chat gbt and asking it for structured data for you know like a food
29:03 menu or you know podcasts locations things like that you know I want to make sure I got as much that I could that I
29:13 could use with total CMS and one thing that was kind of across the board was keywords in the structured data so I put
29:21 in here you know keywords so you can actually have in a blog post some specific keywords you want to
29:28 have searchable uh and so yeah and then you know like all the others you have your layouts these layouts are on every
29:36 form page so you'll be able to U use them and you know I I tried I tried to go through and do things like
29:44 ingredients you know for this you know this is a specific layout for this one um but for events if you click on
29:52 events it's it's different you know um you can have the event price well I guess I I don't know why I put all that
30:08 media um the category the tags this is all stuff pertinent to what an event would be okay um let's see and the same
30:17 with courses you know if you click on the courses you have the title you have another summary the price um I don't
30:25 know why I put Texas under duration I gota you know I got to be more careful when I export and import my
30:34 stuff I I play too much anyway uh but yeah you have all this stuff you have uh tags and categories and and what's nice
30:42 is like the category I have one client that that uses this system and um what's it called they want private and public
30:51 courses so private courses won't show in the list but they're still there and so they can send them the the peral link
30:59 directly to them for them to register you know it's just you know now for those do you do you have it set up so
31:05 you have two different um blogs or is just like one set to Archive and then that if it's archived it's private
31:12 exactly something yeah like exactly like that um it will look for that private versus public and only show it's just
31:19 the one list I was I just wanted to keep it as simple as possible yeah exactly and and not have you know lists for everything
31:27 so to say um but yeah so you know this there's a lot of different blogs that are set up I mean imagine why don't you
31:35 give us a tour of the content side so we can kind of see on the content side what what it what it what they all what each looks like so here books you know I I
31:44 wanted to put a books thing in here so if you want to show off books that you've written or have you can you know
31:51 put them in here and and then put a synopsis whatever you're think this is just some Star Wars lur myum but you can
31:59 you can put your books in here uh the FAQ you know this is all powered by the blog that's a really cool one yeah I I I
32:08 that's it's such a great little you know use for a blog list um and then the same for resources you know these are this is
32:16 a Blog go in here you put in your image your your text and and the link and boom it works
32:23 um let's see what's campaigns campaign you know like you can make it look however you want I didn't put too too
32:32 much into this but you know you can say details and the light box shows up keeps you on the page yeah um I don't have
32:39 anything for Affiliates and it looks like I did not actually turn on the uh the link itself but there is an
32:47 Affiliates page that I added as well okay cool yeah what's the the Donate page is kind of like the
32:55 the payment page where you can you know put your own payment thing PayPal or whatever Joe has a great PayPal stack
33:03 people you can use that there um yeah so just does this use any particular um donation thing does it use the PayPal
33:11 Stacks or does it use what what does it particularly use or does it not this this is the pay snap just because I have pay snap yeah pay snap's great yeah I I
33:21 I like pay snap a lot I actually do have the uh the PayPal one as well uh but this one was already set up and I was kind of
33:28 I've told people I mean pay snap is great um my PayPal Stacks are very simple like it is the simplest form of integrating PayPal into your site so um
33:37 pay snap definitely takes things to another level right sure yeah yeah but don't don't sell yourself too short there because I I I watched the video
33:45 they have their use case like you know I I pretty much I'll tell you right now don't want to turn this into a PayPal thing but um I pretty much created them
33:52 because my dad needed a a donate button for his lion club site and he's just like I just need a quick PayPal donation button right and um so obviously I added
34:02 a few other bells and whistles from PayPal but it was just a for a simple little hey I have a couple products I just need a simple buy now thing or a
34:10 donate button right works great for that if you're building an e-commerce site you know probably want to look at
34:18 something else you know I'll tell you that right um so anyway yeah past app is
34:24 good for a simple simple simple e-commerce site just yeah um but yeah and you know then I you know this isn't
34:33 total CMS blog but you know you have a pricing page that I've set up for you you know like I I tried to go in and
34:41 give as many different types of things Pages page types that um someone could
34:50 possibly need you know if you have a client that uses all of these I want to know what business they're running
34:57 because my God but I mean you're probably gonna just have you know maybe a a handful of these and again you can
35:06 go in and you can sub you know put these into subcategories the menu yours you you make it however you want yeah I've just laid it out like this so everybody
35:13 can see everything all at once exactly um what's the staff page look like did you show that one yet not yet it just
35:20 has me nice St one just like we were space love it exactly
35:27 exactly um and then you know there's the message us button which this is all powered by um total CMS in the in the
35:36 settings page which I'll actually show you the settings page so if you click on settings you
35:44 know this again all um total or SEO helper inspired right oh and by the way here is the
35:52 cloud Dev uh cloudflare Dev tools from stacks weer up there it's not hooked up on my page on this yet um but it is
36:02 there just so you can see what it would look like um but yeah all this is fed into the SEO helpers the contact info
36:10 this is all stuff that will'll show you can turn it on turn it off it will show you know up here and it all shows down here in the
36:19 footer you it like right now see this is a a decent you know brightness for the logo on this background but if you a
36:27 dark logo and you want to have a different background or a different logo um down here in the footer you know I've
36:34 even thought you can have an alternate um footer logo just just to keep things you know um flowing for you and one of
36:42 my favorite things that I did was I put in the total CMS license uh it's just a dummy license but you can copy the
36:50 license and then I thought well I want the launcher thing to be better so I added it in there and you can just copy
36:58 the license and paste that's hilarious so I never saw that that's pretty funny yeah this is
37:06 new as of last week yeah and it's the same with and you have the export tool right there that's
37:12 brilliant y I want things to be simple that that's pretty cool I like it and
37:19 then this code is all sitewide so like Google analytics this is the Google analytics for the site
37:27 it puts it sitewide um I try to do you know Facebook pixel this will go where the Facebook pixel goes but then you
37:34 have head and body um placement as well for for different things um my toggles
37:41 so different side components so you can turn on announcements cookie disclaimer um messages updates you know all these
37:48 different things will turn on and turn off you know if you want them and then you have you know hours of operation the
37:56 reason why it's this way is because in SEO helper it is specific to this kind
38:02 of format you have a specific line for you know open and close per day and so
38:08 it's it's in there um but this this is a Google formatted um hours of operation and so
38:18 that will show right here you know this is Google formatted yeah so Google is just FYI for people you know Google is
38:25 very very very picky about things and the more you comply with Google's formatting the happier they will be with
38:32 you um and so if Google has it like this in your Google uh business account put it like that on your web page whatever
38:40 format it is you put it like that the same with the phone number so it has this parentheses with the area code and then a dash between the numbers that's
38:49 how Google does it and recently as of two days ago um I was having an issue with one of my clients in their Google
38:56 ads their phone number in the ads themselves was being rejected and that's
39:03 because it needed the area or the uh country code in front of it and so they just suggested to put the country code
39:11 in the actual front facing thing as well so whatever I did it um and you can see at the bottom in in the little thing
39:18 down there in the link um so you're saying the hours of operation it should be that format even though I'm assuming the other the other form
39:27 the one with that's an SEO helper that puts structured data on the page right yes this is for structured data okay now now now if but if you have the
39:36 structured data I mean Google should read that in because that's even pre even more preferable to them than the format of the the what's actually on the
39:44 page because then at that point that's human readable or I'm sorry machine readable um you know formatting so
39:51 interesting exactly exactly and but Google also reads your your website like it does a Word document top to bottom
39:59 left to right and you know it looks for H1s then H2S and then sections for H3 and it likes having things matchy matchy
40:09 to what because because what it's showing Google is intent it shows that you are aware of people looking at some
40:17 like it'd be the same as you know you see a flyer out in the wild and it's a discount on something and you you know scan a QR code or whatever and it takes
40:25 you to the website and it's this it's a page for that flyer you found but the colors are different the fonts are
40:33 different the pictures are different it it doesn't look like they match it looks like two completely separate things and it might make you think ah this looks
40:40 kind of scammy I don't know if I want to purchase this or you know be on this page I think it's kind of the same thing they want they want consistency across
40:48 the board at least that's that's my understanding of it um so yeah I mean and then you know your social media that you can add in
40:57 um your messaging info so all of this is what is driving this message
41:05 us and let's see and then this is all like very specific SEO uh helper content
41:12 you know down to Latitude to longitude for you to put in there uh there's that country code right
41:19 there um yeah and then you know contact info and all this you know just it makes it as easy as possible so you don't have
41:25 to open up stacks and and you know change something there republish you can all you can do it from your phone if you wanted to um I actually spent some time
41:34 getting the phone portion looking at least semi decent I mean this is a lot of content this is is a lot so it took
41:43 some doing but yeah I mean and then you know let's see open up the project file I thought I
41:52 already had it open so this is the project file I mean right away you know I mean look how massive
42:01 that is that's that's a lot of pages you know yeah so that could be intimidating so show people how like how all that's organized maybe collapse everything so
42:09 it's a little less intimidating I don't uh maybe yeah go ahead goad no is there an easier way to close everything uh I
42:18 was just I thought everything was under one if you push the alt tag the ALT key or option key and then click on the Arrow does that I think that does just
42:26 the child's though yeah yeah that's all right um yeah so okay so the way I and this was actually Joe's suggestion a
42:34 long time ago um you know you have the homepage right here so this is all you know homepage and I and I'm a pin fan so
42:42 everything's in it's in pins guys um you know it's I try to give notes throughout
42:49 as well so you don't get lost but every page that's you know the top level has at least an admin page and so this is
42:59 what is being served up here so if I click on page content click on home this is what that page is
43:08 okay and then oops and then if I go to like um blog we'll do blog that's a
43:16 common one so this is the blog page here's the blog alert stack by stacka stacks.com that does not come with the
43:23 project that is a separate purchase and it is is worth it because it's super cool um you have the blog view page so
43:31 when someone clicks on the blog post it'll take them to the view page and then there's an admin page to tell you what the blog will look like you know
43:40 like um the title of it the link title and then the SEO stuff for uh the page settings and then you have the blog list
43:48 for the admin side and you have the blog form on the admin side so every single
43:55 one is structured the same way all the way down um and then okay so back up really quick so you have three blog
44:03 admin uh things I just want to make sure that's clear so the first one the blog page that is not that is stuff that is
44:09 outside of the blog content but manages the content around the blog page correct it's managing this it's like the picture
44:17 the title here the subtitle um and then whatever if there's specific code per that page or if there
44:25 is you know something else it would be in here and so if I if I go to the blog content page it's very simple you know
44:34 you can choose um to use F6 or impact now just curious you know several people do this right where they have you know your blog page content and then your
44:42 blog list why not just have the blog list on your blog page as well it's curious that's a that's good I so I did
44:51 think about that but my only concern and and I didn't want to have too many like I have I have three panels now yeah you know this list I have this list and then
45:09 real long real fast fair enough and so okay yeah it depends on on how much content you have but sure yeah exactly I mean I have I have a client that that
45:17 they have um a provids page and there are about 4,000 providers and each one
45:24 of those provider is a blog list entry oh wow yeah and that remember that I
45:31 think that's when you up the uh the antee on um how much blog Import and Export would work oh yeah remember you
45:39 fixed that yeah so yeah that was that was a fun one to to sus out man um but
45:45 yeah so it each page has its own um like page content page and then there is the
45:54 the add edit content so these all the blog list right so here's the blog posts so you know you have past you have
46:01 drafts why past is coming up someone asked in the chat is the menu that you created kind of dynamic so if they delete a page from the project does it
46:10 remove it from the menu no um that is SE so this is the menu and I'll I'll show
46:17 you why the only thing that's Dynamic is like services this is pulling from a
46:23 total CMS menu item okay um because I figured that that makes sense and then I thought that I had it under block maybe
46:30 I I removed it but yeah I think Services is a good use case for that but no um Let me let me show you real quick like
46:38 clearly you're not going to use all these pages right yeah so what what I did was I came in here and I was like all right let's say I don't use videos I
46:45 don't use tours and I don't want to subscribe so I'll take one two and three and I drag them down here to this unused
46:54 pages which is set to draft so now those pages they don't
47:01 get published but they're still there they still have all of the if you if you add something to to a structure a
47:10 substructure that is the parent set to draft it won't publish anything inside of it either exactly oh really that's yeah even okay guys look even I learned
47:18 something new I didn't even know that so there we go that's cool they're all all grayed out ah interesting yeah I was
47:26 very happy when I discovered that that's cool I like that yeah that's a good exactly and and you don't you're because
47:34 you know if you start a project I this happens a lot to me I'll start a project for a client and you're like I don't want to blog I don't want to blog and like all right You're Gonna Want A Blog
47:42 but okay I delete that page and then I I'm kicking myself later because I got to Now read that page but this way it's
47:52 just it's still there and it's just turned off and so if I go into the
47:59 navigation this is a partial okay now it's for someone who's new I know this could look scary but um
48:09 if you double click on the pin you go down there this is actually the menu and the reason why it's here in a partial
48:17 and it's here the same partials down here is so that if you make a change in one it will reflect in the other one and
48:26 so this is a custom menu that I've I've built um so that it works with um both
48:33 mobile and desktop but it's not a it's not a rapid Weaver menu where you delete a page deletes the menu item for you and
48:41 so if you go in here to see this all of these are total CMS macros oh Jes so
48:48 yeah so all of the that's this is how you can rename your pages to be custom from the back end
48:56 and if you don't have a page that you you know if you don't want the drinks or the events you know these are all things you can just delete them you know you
49:03 can go back in and add them that the the structure of the macros is fairly consistent you know throughout I mean
49:12 you know food menu privacy FAQ events they're all and I use the
49:19 same I guess um not nomenclature what's the word naming
49:26 yeah the same naming conventions throughout my uh my macros so you know let's say that one day you wanted to add
49:33 a new page you know all of this is pretty standard across the board you can just really double click in here and
49:40 then you know duplicate a page copy this part you know just the privacy and then go in and change whatever you know this
49:48 is on that new page so let's say you you um changed the or you wanted to add a new page you duplicate the FAQ
49:56 you can just go in and double click and you know change everything to I don't know like what's a good one Stacks you
50:03 know like if you have a Stacks page and then you know boom you're done yep it's it's I tried to make it again as easy as
50:11 possible and again this is a massive file guys I I know it's scary for some people it it's intimidating for me too
50:18 I've just used it so much that I know where things are um but it's a great learning tool if
50:26 anything let's see let me get back out of here um I saw a coup people in the comment saying that uh they learned
50:33 total CMS using Kon so yeah oh nice that's great that's that's the point guys that's kind of the point of this um
50:41 you know me look at this all of this macros Galore these are all total CMS macros already done for you for structured data for local business and
50:50 it's all fed from the admin side of this website so down here Monday Tuesday all
50:57 this this is all stuff fed into um form we looked at earlier right the Monday Tuesday Wednesday and the
51:04 time the hours yep and what's really nice is so like I'll I'll show you this um so this website I actually built
51:13 using uh kumbre okay technically Kon but whatever kumbre um what's cool about
51:21 this is if you go into learn more so the blog okay and for some reason the I'm
51:29 using that trick I did with the WordPress thing and I think I got the uh the um file names wrong or something because they're not only a few of them
51:37 are showing up I was actually G to ask you about that Joe because I need to get this fixed but I was I was uh going off Target there so what's cool about SEO
51:46 helper especially with the blog check this out they gonna blow your mind all right so if I inspect this this post
51:56 right here okay so this is the article right this right here where it says script this is the structured data look
52:04 at this the entire blog post is in the blog list and that is per blog list item
52:13 the entire blog post yep so if you if you were to click on that and it takes you to the yeah see even these aren't
52:20 working if it takes you to the um the text it's all there
52:26 and it's all here too under there we go so here is the structured data for part
52:34 of it that's for the the um the local business stuff and then there's the blog so you have you know keywords which are
52:41 in here word count the uh the blog post itself and all of this is being fed per
52:50 post from the CMS exactly I mean this is this is massive
52:57 massive stuff when it comes to SEO um yeah I'm I'm actually very proud
53:04 of that that it's I got it all hooked up correctly um and even things like uh if
53:11 you were to click on you know courses you know like this map if you have the maps two stack from a doox um
53:20 in the project file or yeah in the project file under like location there we go so I added that
53:29 functionality in there as well so location one it it will pop up in here location two it'll pop up in there it's
53:36 it's pretty cool so imagine like you have apartment complexes or you're trying to sell houses or something you can have a map that matches what the
53:44 list item is in the uh in the total CMS blog so yeah I mean I can I could Pro
53:51 probably go on forever with this oh sitemap site map is is pretty much done you just got to fill in your um your uh
53:59 total CMS uh what's it called the the the URLs I learned that the that the
54:06 macro does not work in here which is fine um you know you do it once you set it it's fine but you know all of this is
54:14 pretty much set up for you and you just got to change the the front part of the um the URL and your site map is done you
54:23 can just upload that to to Google console um yeah it's just there is so
54:30 much in here guys so so much I even have like a place with some extra different
54:37 Footers and blog blog posts blog lists things like that for you um there's a
54:44 Sandbox page where you can go in and play yeah a legend get some help you out
54:51 with some of the stacks yeah lots of stuff so sweet yeah for 10 bucks not bad
54:59 exactly not bad at all not bad at plus you get a stack from Stacks app stacks and you get a pretty good
55:07 discount off of the cloud Dev um or cloudfl Dev tool stack which is awesome
55:15 that is that is really cool you get a lot with that you know I think the the the the time savings and and the learning that you can get from uh this
55:24 project file is is definitely worth it like a th% so good job dude I love it thank you thank you and you're giving
55:31 back to your community by giving to Isaiah and if you do the Pay It Forward thing you're helping someone else out to learn as well
55:40 amen cool well you thank you very much for uh for coming on today and yeah it was really awesome hope everyone uh goes
55:48 out and buys it and uh pretty cool uh if you uh if you haven't make sure you join us on Friday at our Hangouts right
55:57 they're always fun um Chris is a regular attendee he's always there along with Josh and Scott and a bunch of you here I
56:05 know I recognize a lot of names here in the chat um and uh hopefully we'll see you all on Friday so cool now one thing
56:14 about that though I may not be there because I'm tempting fate I'm going out of town tomorrow on a so if anything breaks in my absence I
56:23 apologize I swear to you by Monday it should be fixed if anything breaks just contact Scott Williams there you go um
56:30 he will uh he will help you out y just just keep badgering him keep emailing he loves it all the time yeah just like
56:37 every you know he's getting older so like every two minutes at least you just need to Ping him hey Scott you there hey
56:44 Scott hey Scott Scott hey Scott and we lost
56:50 Scott Scott's now a Foundry user H uh the link to purchase uh go on the
56:59 community in his in his announcements um and uh yeah just look in the announcement section on the community uh you can also go to stacks basecamp.com
57:08 and uh yeah cool thanks Chris hopefully we'll see ever again on Friday we won't see Chris but we'll see everybody else
57:16 take care everyone have a great rest of your week bye bye guys

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