00:00 us a chance to chat everything up your audio is looking
00:06 good all right we’re live welcome in there hey Ryan nice to see
00:12 you rain five days straight in Charlotte yeah we’ve had bits and pieces
00:19 of rain here not bad where part of the What part of the world you live in
00:26 uh Michigan so it’s pretty decent weather here right now okay i’m all the
00:31 way out on the wet coast so Oh okay yeah i live rain every other day i live as
00:37 far west and south as you can get in Canada oh nice okay i live on Vancouver Island
00:44 down in down in Victoria right now so really nice plate all right everyone
00:52 so this is a minor pre-stream as I’m uh getting all the audios and making sure everything is working and uh we’ve sent
01:00 out some last minute tweets and other things to encourage people to show
01:05 up and we will uh just carry this forward i got to bring up a couple of things here that I
01:13 need is buried behind 2500 windows I have
01:19 open
01:26 there we go okay now just for a double check here and you hear this okay squirrel
01:34 squirrel yeah yep okay that means you can hear the sounds so you’ll know the sound effects because I use the the
01:40 intros and the extras to help cue the show up and cue my brain for what I’m supposed to be doing perfect all right
01:48 let’s uh prepare this up i believe that it is time
01:55 ladies and gentlemen it is time for WordPress plugins A to Zed not Z H
02:04 welcome to WP Plugins A to Zed episode 68 of the interviewed show code
02:10 controversy and community with Robert D’vour visions for WordPress past
02:16 present and future all coming up next on WordPress plugins from A to
02:23 Zed wordpress the king of content management systems powering the web with
02:29 over 80,000 plugins to choose from how do you sort the junk from the gems
02:35 welcome to WP Plugins A to Zed where we’ve been keeping the pulse of WordPress alive for over 16 incredible
02:42 years join us every week for an unrehearsed real talk breakdowns of the
02:47 latest and greatest plugins developer and community member interviews some weeks Amber and I team up to dig in
02:54 others I’m flying solo unpacking WordPress news demoing a standout plugin
02:60 or sharing tips to power up your site no scripts no fluff just the good stuff
03:05 from A to Z so plug in and let’s get rolling
03:12 well good morning good afternoon or good evening wherever you happen to be hiding out there on the globe today coming to you direct from the brewery overlooking
03:19 beautiful southern Vancouver Island i’m John Overall and in today’s show we’re deep
03:25 diving into the dynamic world of WordPress with a seasoned developer who’s not afraid to shake things up
03:31 robert D’vor the founder of Plug-in Pow and a core contributor to the WordPress and Woo Commerce uh field joins us to
03:39 share his 20 plus years of experience in plug-in development security re research
03:44 and open-source innovation will explore his journey from cannabis related plugins to AI powered tools like plug-in
03:52 pal his controversial take on WordPress government governance and his vision for
03:57 decentralized publishing with static from rapid plug-in releases to sparking debates about leadership in the
04:03 community contributions this episode is brimming with insights for plug-in enthusiasts developers and WordPress
04:10 community members alike welcome to the show Robert thank you for having me oh I’ve been
04:17 I’ve been kind of excited about doing this interview it’s uh so many places to
04:22 go with what you have um your your sites and um the thing is y...