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In today&#8217;s episode, we will talk about WordPress 6.4 a little bit and Gutenberg 16.8, and then we also will talk about what&#8217;s already been worked outside the current releases. I&#8217;m your host, Birgit Pauli-Haack, curator at the Gutenberg Times and a full-time core contributor for the WordPress Open Source Project, sponsored by Automattic&#8217;s Five for the Future Program. Today, my co-host and special guest is Joni Halabi. She is not a stranger to the Gutenberg Times&#8217; subscribers. She&#8217;s a senior developer at Georgetown University and has been building blocks since forever.&nbsp;</p>\n\n\n\n<p>Our recent adventure together was the Gutenberg Life Q&amp;A with David Bowman and Alec Geatches, and a fascinating discussion about design systems and how WordPress slowly becomes one. Joni is also the author of a great article on the WordPress developer blog explaining the difference between a static and a dynamic block. 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I don&#8217;t want to necessarily lead my reader down the same rabbit hole that I am in when I&#8217;m writing the post, but if they want more information, yes, please go down to the footnotes. Take a look at this rabbit hole that I have created and then please go back to my main points.&nbsp;</p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Birgit Pauli-Haack</em>: Yeah, but footnotes are stored in post meta, but there has never been a revision feature for post metadata and that&#8217;s why it&#8217;s that particular PR phrased that way. So, it uses the meta revision once available if it&#8217;s available, and there is a track ticket that the meta revisions actually are coming into 6.4. So, it&#8217;s what comes first kind of thing, but they figured it out in that. Yeah. So, the next part I wanted to point out is adding design tools to as many blocks as possible is on the way. The login, logout block now has spacing support, which is really helpful. So, you don&#8217;t have to use the spacer anymore. You can just do it through the block as well, block sidebar.&nbsp;</p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Joni Halabi</em>: Yup, and then the next one is being able to set a custom color when applying an initial background image. So, I love anything that lets somebody set a custom color, because then you can really control the accessibility of that background color in case your image fails for whatever reason. You can default to that custom color and it maintains the accessibility of the page. So, if your text is white and you have a dark background image, for example, then for whatever reason you&#8217;re on a poor connection, for whatever reason, the image doesn&#8217;t load, you&#8217;re not stuck with a page that&#8217;s showing white text on top of a white background because nobody can read that. Being able to set that custom color to be that fallback for the image that hopefully loads but might not.&nbsp;</p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Birgit Pauli-Haack</em>: I think one of the features here is also that it&#8217;s actually automatically detecting the background of the image that you load and setting it automatically, so you don&#8217;t have to think about it, because I wouldn&#8217;t think about that accessibility piece unless somebody points it out to me. Oh yeah, you&#8217;re right. Yeah, I should have set a custom color, but doing it automatically I think is one of those great features that you don&#8217;t have to think about and it really supports accessibility without making a fuss about it.&nbsp;</p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Joni Halabi</em>: Yeah, absolutely. Especially if it&#8217;s right on that cusp where if you are a fully cited user, you might be able to read that text and you might not realize, &#8220;Oh wait, this red text on a blue background, I can read it, but maybe somebody else can&#8217;t.&#8221; Yeah, I love automation like that.&nbsp;</p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Birgit Pauli-Haack</em>: Yeah. So, the next thing is default suggested links to pages. So, that&#8217;s in context of external links. So, that&#8217;s a very interesting diagram in the PR that makes me think, &#8220;Is that too complicated or is that very easy?&#8221; It&#8217;s mainly for the navigation block. When you have a third party link, it suggests that. What does it do?&nbsp;</p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Joni Halabi</em>: So what my takeaway from this was that I actually had a really hard time reading this diagram that&#8217;s in here, because there is a lot going on, but it seems like the suggestions that were originally coming up in the navigation lock were just everything, post pages, what have you. It seems that they are limiting that to only pages, instead of posts, which I think narrows the scope. I like this narrowing of the scope, because when you&#8217;re creating a navigation block, you&#8217;re more likely to want to link to a more evergreen page than to a post that might be fresh now, but might be out of date in six months or a year or what have you. That&#8217;s not necessarily something you want in your navigation. So, narrowing that scope I think makes it a little bit easier to find links.&nbsp;</p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Birgit Pauli-Haack</em>: Yeah, thank you so much for jumping in there. I was drawing a blank. Yeah.</p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Joni Halabi</em>: Yeah, absolutely.&nbsp;</p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Birgit Pauli-Haack</em>: The navigation in terms of posts, you probably would link more to category pages where a list of posts on a certain topic are there. The narrowing down of the scope is really helpful for the user there. Yeah, absolutely. Yeah. The next one I&#8217;m really happy about because now I get a confirmation when I move a post to trash.&nbsp;</p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Joni Halabi</em>: We have had so many accidental deletions of the homepage.&nbsp;</p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Birgit Pauli-Haack</em>: I was going through the developer notes and somehow I had a post published that was previously by accident deleted, came back from trash, and then had trashed in the permanent link. So, it was really, &#8220;What?&#8221; So I needed to just delete the permanent link and then it would automatically create a normal link, but it was kind of, &#8220;Huh? Why would that be?&#8221; So having a confirmation yes or no, do you really want to trash it, because it had so many ramifications to rectify that situation again. Yes, it was really hard.&nbsp;</p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Joni Halabi</em>: So the next one is it&#8217;s titled add template replace flow to template inspector. What it really boils down to is it looks like there is a change to just the way that you replace a template when you&#8217;re editing a page. When I was diving a little bit deeper into this, I feel like this is maybe a first pass or that there are some more passes of this to come, because I did see some comments that the UI could be streamlined a little bit more than it is, but there&#8217;s a great video that demonstrates this, where you are on the page editor.&nbsp;</p>\n\n\n\n<p>You can go and replace a template and then it brings you to this modal where you can choose whatever template that you want. It gives you a bunch of selections. You can choose one and your page just updates to that new template and then you can just go about your day. I recommend checking that out. It might be something, especially if you&#8217;re heavily using templates, something to keep an eye on for future updates as well.&nbsp;</p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Birgit Pauli-Haack</em>: So before it was just a dropdown box in the site bar for the pages, and now it opens up a modal. So, you actually can preview the template that you would associate it with a page if you want to change it. So, I think that&#8217;s a really good way to think about templates that &#8220;Oh, I can reorganize the content on this page by just changing another template.&#8221; I get a preview on how that&#8217;s going to look because we are all about avoiding that piece where we say safe and pray. I think Helen Hou-Sandi uses it a lot. That&#8217;s the previous way to do editing, is you do something and then you need to look at frontend how it looks, and the block editor is all about what you see is what you get.&nbsp;</p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Joni Halabi</em>: Before I heavily relied on preview, which some of the previous updates to the previous functionality I was very thankful for.&nbsp;</p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Birgit Pauli-Haack</em>: Oh, yeah. Then the next one were updates in the block library. The search block got some enhancements and one is to allow the space for the input field only when the form expands and not when it&#8217;s collapsed. That was always a little bit hard to place. Then the alignment and the icon button got a little correction on the width, so it looks a little bit more streamlined. The search block is an odd block. I really liked it, but it&#8217;s always a little harder for me to add it to a navigation block definitely. But even if you want to have it standalone on top of your blog post or something like that on a template, it&#8217;s always a little bit harder to organize, I think.&nbsp;</p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Joni Halabi:</em> Yeah, I can see that. So, the next changeup is in the site editor, and it&#8217;s something regarding the template parts. So, basically, we are no longer displaying the navigation section in the template parts details when the menu is missing, which sounds very obvious. If there&#8217;s no navigation menu, don&#8217;t display it. So, there&#8217;s some great screenshots that illustrate this in the GitHub issue. Very, very straightforward in those details. If there&#8217;s no navigation menu, you just don&#8217;t see the navigation in the details for that template part.&nbsp;</p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Birgit Pauli-Haack</em>: These are the quality of life issues or things that you don&#8217;t know unless you read the changelog. Oh, we needed to change that. Yes.&nbsp;</p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Joni Halabi</em>: Right.&nbsp;</p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Birgit Pauli-Haack</em>: The next one that I want to point out was for the font library, unfortunately, it&#8217;s not going to be in 6.4, but the management screens got a new tab and that is for the font uploads. So, if you as a user want to add additional fonts to your site, you can upload that. That was before, but now you have a separate tab for it. Before it was you needed to scroll all the way down past all the fonts and go to the upload section. Now it&#8217;s just one tab. So, it&#8217;s much easier to find. Unfortunately, for many, many people, we won&#8217;t have it in 6.4. It definitely needed more time to get finished, especially in the rest API endpoints and then have more testing going on, because I think it was only in 16.7 that it actually was merged into Gutenberg.&nbsp;</p>\n\n\n\n<p>They tried for two beta sessions to get it actually to a place where users can really use it. There were always something. So, the release team said, &#8220;Well, I think that&#8217;s a sign that we need to have it simmer for more moments, for a few more rounds in the Gutenberg plugin and have some more testing being done because it&#8217;s not ready yet.&#8221; Yeah.</p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Joni Halabi</em>: That makes sense. I&#8217;m looking forward to it for the next version of Core, but that sounds like a really nice update. The next update affects the list views. So, there were some performance issues when a user or a content editor rather would come in and select all the blocks on the page, and there is now a fix for that. So, this affects pages that have just a lot, a lot of blocks. So, the example in the testing instructions says, &#8220;Add 150 or more paragraphs,&#8221; for example. So, before when a content editor would go in, open list view, do a command + A or control + A to select all of the blocks on the page and there are a couple hundred blocks, the editor would just freeze. It would just freeze up on you because that&#8217;s a lot of information.&nbsp;</p>\n\n\n\n<p>So, this particular PR that solves that performance issue. So, they&#8217;re noting that there will be a slight delay for rendering items, but there shouldn&#8217;t be any huge, huge slowdowns to the point where it makes you think that your site is broken.&nbsp;</p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Birgit Pauli-Haack</em>: Yeah, yeah. No, that&#8217;s for the power users. It&#8217;s not uncommon to have a weakened edition with many, many things and then have a couple hundred blocks in there, because we have a separator block or a spacer block or something like that. Power users really don&#8217;t want their site to be broken especially, or losing content, especially with those large posts. The next one is the image block. With the 6.4 version, the image block becomes a light box feature with it. But this Gutenberg plugin PR that I point out now fixes actually that the duo tone has not been applied to the image in the light box.&nbsp;</p>\n\n\n\n<p>So, you had maybe a gray filter on the duo tone filter on your image, and then people clicked on it, and then on the front end, it still has the image original colors and not the duo tone. There is a reason why there&#8217;s duo tone on an image. That was definitely a bug and it was fixed, but it was so visual that I thought we definitely want to talk about that when people tested it before. Yeah.</p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Joni Halabi:</em> Yeah, for sure. Next up is an accessibility fix to what might be my favorite new block or favorite new feature, footnotes. They have added aria labels to the return links. On the footnotes, when you go down, you click on a footnote, you go down to the bottom of the page, you read your footnote. There is a little link at the end of that footnote that will take you back to the main content of the page where you picked up your footnote. Now, there is an aria label, which is great for accessibility. It will tell screen reader users, &#8220;Hey, this is where I&#8217;m going back to.&#8221; Very small but impactful change for people.&nbsp;</p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Birgit Pauli-Haack</em>: Yeah, absolutely. You don&#8217;t want to lose your place in the post just because you&#8217;re following a footnote and not going back to where it was. Yeah, same for the table of content block. There have been quite a few accessibility improvements. Them missing was actually part of the reason why the table of content block that&#8217;s in the plugin actually did not make it into WordPress 6.4 because it was not complete from how you access it. Even for the abled people, it was really hard to use the table of content, because it didn&#8217;t have a whole lot of styling options. With additional accessibility of movements, now it can be tested more and in a broader reach as well.&nbsp;</p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Joni Halabi</em>: I would throw this under accessibility as well. There is a small fix to the patterns, where for a block pattern that is not synced, the terminology that was being used for that was they were using standard. So, this change replaces that use of the word standard, to use not synced instead for block patterns that are not synced. I think that makes it more obvious, because standards can be&#8230; What is standard? Some people might have questions, but it just brings a level of clarity to what&#8217;s going on there.&nbsp;</p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Birgit Pauli-Haack</em>: Yeah, especially in patterns, because right now, we only have two, but we will have a third type of pattern and that will be partially synced. So, a standard, what is that? So that it really brings it home. Yeah, thank you for pointing that out as well. I think I skipped over one of the documentation items that I wanted to point out for our listeners who are looking a little bit further beyond the WordPress Gutenberg usage. Oh, that&#8217;s the real-time collaboration experiment is now switched. You can switch that on in 16.8, and there&#8217;s also a document now available in the block editor handbook about the current state of the real-time collaboration experiment. So, you can follow along on what&#8217;s going to be next year for the Gutenberg editor.&nbsp;</p>\n\n\n\n<p>There have been a lot of documentation changes, don&#8217;t get us wrong, but they&#8217;re mostly removing redundant stuff like remove the full site editing documentation because it will be in the themes handbook. Rename block hooks to block filters, because now block hooks are a different feature. So, it&#8217;s all a little bit, but the team is really working very hard to get the documentation up to par with 6.4 as well. Yeah, I think that was the changelog for 16.8, the Gutenberg plugin version. Thank you so much for going through that with me.&nbsp;</p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">What’s in Active Deveopment or Discussed</h3>\n\n\n\n<p>We are now at the section what&#8217;s in active development or what&#8217;s in discussed. I would say with WordPress 6.4 almost out the door, Gutenberg developers are shifting gears now and also working on some new things.&nbsp;</p>\n\n\n\n<p>Those need your input opinion, design use, and I share with you in the show notes four links. The first one would be a media library proof of concept in the site editor. The contributor has done some really experiment with that on how to add images right through your media library there, have a list view there. Now, list view, not from the editor but from a list of media and how you can navigate that and how you can preview that and all that. So, that&#8217;s really a first version of it. Take a look. It&#8217;s not yet merged. The PR itself has been closed. I just see that, but there is a replacement of that, right?&nbsp;</p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Joni Halabi</em>: Yeah. That PR in particular is labeled as purely an experiment, but at the top of that PR, there is a great video that demonstrates this proof of concept, which I personally really like it. I think it&#8217;s far more intuitive. It only shows the list view. There is also a grid view that if you dive a little bit more into the PR, you can see some screenshots of the grid view as well.&nbsp;</p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Birgit Pauli-Haack</em>: The developer now that his experiments, he went through them, he now opened a tracking issue on GitHub called Collaboration Media Library. I&#8217;m sure there will be quite a few discussion threads going on there. The whole feature is now divided up into certain tasks and defines a little bit more than scope and all that. So, you can read up more about what the developers are thinking right now.&nbsp;</p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Joni Halabi</em>: Yeah, this is exciting. It&#8217;s nice to see the media library getting a little bit of love here.&nbsp;</p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Birgit Pauli-Haack</em>: Yeah, it definitely needs a lot of love. Yes, I have seen tickets or track tickets that are 18 years old and you say, &#8220;Okay, yeah, I wonder if we ever get categories for our media libraries or better views or bulk updates, all kinds of things.&#8221; So if you look at the track tickets that are concerned in the media library, there are quite a few that could use some love.&nbsp;</p>\n\n\n\n<p>All right. The second link of what active development or discussed is introduce an experimental form and input blocks to allow building basic forms. So, the ecosystem of WordPress has a huge amount of plugins that help you with creating forms. Forms are very, very important. A lot of interactivity is built on top of forms and there has been a 15-year history of what forms need to be or could be.&nbsp;</p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ari did an experiment to figure out, &#8220;Okay, if we had a standard on how blocks are built for forms, maybe the plugins can build on top of the standards.&#8221; Then when you switch out the plugin for forms, it wouldn&#8217;t destroy all your forms and you had to recreate them. Of course, some of the plugins have imports of other plugins forms, but that&#8217;s just good common sense because otherwise they wouldn&#8217;t be able to sell to existing customers or those who have existing forms. That is definitely something that&#8217;s merged in Gutenberg already.&nbsp;</p>\n\n\n\n<p>It&#8217;s an experiment, so when you activate Gutenberg in your website, you could scroll down to the menu Gutenberg and then there is a section there called experiments. There you can switch on the experiment you are interested in. So, this one actually also deals with block bindings, data bindings, and that kind of thing. So, it&#8217;s going to be really interesting to see what you think when you use it.&nbsp;</p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Joni Halabi</em>: Yeah, this is an exciting one because I can see in the future people creating block patterns for just really common use cases. So, the demo video shows like a send a message pattern, but I see patterns all over the internet for subscribe to my newsletter, get on my mailing list, things like that. Forms are so common on sites in general. I&#8217;m excited about this one too.&nbsp;</p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Birgit Pauli-Haack</em>: Yeah, all really good too. There are even some plugins that actually provide input blocks already, but also, it narrows down the openness again when you have to have a separate plugin for your forms and then what happens afterwards when you don&#8217;t use the plugin anymore.&nbsp;</p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Joni Halabi</em>: Yeah, exactly. Having this just part of Core is great.&nbsp;</p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Birgit Pauli-Haack</em>: Yeah, it&#8217;s really good. Then the third one is for the insiders of using React quite a bit is that the default JSX import is done through React rather than the WordPress elements package. So, it automatically updates when React updates and the front page of WordPress elements package is actually a wraparound the React package. So, taking it out, taking the JSX feature out of that makes it more streamlined with React.&nbsp;</p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Joni Halabi</em>: Yeah, for sure. Just for clarity, for block creators, this should not affect your code at all. This is really just how JSX is getting pulled in. So, if you&#8217;re using JSX, you should not need to change anything. This is really a very backend change.</p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Birgit Pauli-Haack</em>: Yeah, and the WordPress elements package will still be around because it&#8217;s already in Core and there is this backwards compatibility promise as well. Yeah, yeah. So, thank you for pointing it out. There&#8217;s always this fear. Are there breaking changes? Yeah.</p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Joni Halabi</em>: That was my first thought when I read that one actually. That&#8217;s why I wanted to point it out.&nbsp;</p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Birgit Pauli-Haack</em>: Yeah, thank you. So, good to have you on the show, Joni. You pointed out quite a few things that I didn&#8217;t think about. So, yeah.&nbsp;</p>\n\n\n\n<p>So, the last one on the section what&#8217;s active or what&#8217;s discussed is that the Gutenberg has now new labels for the data views. Normally, I wouldn&#8217;t point out new labels at the Gutenberg repo that come and go. I think we have about 400 or so labels there. So, yeah, I wouldn&#8217;t do it on the podcast. But with the new admin changes that are coming with the Gutenberg phase number three, many people want to be on the forefront or want to keep track of what&#8217;s happening. Do I have to change things or can I influence how it&#8217;s going and stay on top of it? This new label was created to label for the data views work.&nbsp;</p>\n\n\n\n<p>So, every time there is a custom post type list or a media list in various things, so that in the WP Admin, like your post list, it&#8217;ll all be reimagined in the site editor paradigm kind of thing. The label tracks the high level work for that. So, you can really follow along with that and even subscribe to that without getting the fire hose of the rest of the Gutenberg repo that has a lot of issues and PRs every week.&nbsp;</p>\n\n\n\n<p>I think we are at the end of our show today, and I ask every special guest in that section now. So, Joni, if there&#8217;s anything that you want to announce or you want to point out that you didn&#8217;t get a chance to talk about because you didn&#8217;t get a chance, now is your chance.&nbsp;</p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Joni Halabi</em>: Oh, my.&nbsp;</p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Birgit Pauli-Haack</em>: How can people reach you? What are you working on? Is there something exciting in your life that you released?</p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Joni Halabi</em>: Nothing coming just yet. I did a talk a little while ago at WordPress Accessibility Day that I think the recordings are coming out. I don&#8217;t know if they&#8217;re already out, but I will announce it on my socials. I am @JoniHalabi almost everywhere, and you can also find me&#8230; I infrequently blog at my website, which is <a href=\"https://jhalabi.com/\">jhalabi.com</a>.&nbsp;</p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Birgit Pauli-Haack</em>: Well, yeah, thank you for pointing out the WordPress Accessibility Day. So, what did you present about, what&#8217;s your talk about?&nbsp;</p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Joni Halabi</em>: It was actually a plugin that I initially created a while ago. I call it Besan Block, but it is essentially a way to create accessible SVG bar charts on your website and it integrates with Google Sheets. So, you can automatically import your content from a Google sheet and it will create a bar chart. It&#8217;s accessible and tabable and readable by screen readers. So, I walked folks through how to do that. The primary focus of that particular talk was the creation of the accessible SVG.&nbsp;</p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Birgit Pauli-Haack</em>: Okay. Yeah, so I&#8217;m definitely going to mention that in the show notes as well. Is that plugin available in the repo or is it on GitHub?&nbsp;</p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Joni Halabi</em>: It is. It&#8217;s available in GitHub, but it is also in the WordPress plugin directory. 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My name is Nathan Wrigley.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>Jukebox is a podcast which is dedicated to all things WordPress. The people, the events, the plugins, the blocks, the themes, and in this case, how we can promote diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging in the WordPress project and community.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>If you&#8217;d like to subscribe to the podcast, you can do that by searching for WP Tavern in your podcast player of choice. Or by going to WPTavern.com forward slash feed forward slash podcast. And you can copy that URL into most podcast players.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>If you have a topic that you&#8217;d like us to feature on the podcast, I&#8217;m keen to hear from you, and hopefully get you, or your idea, featured on the show. Head to WPTavern.com forward slash contact forward slash jukebox, and use the form there.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>So on the podcast today, we have Pooja Derashri. Pooja is a co-founder of WPVibes, a plugin development company based in India. 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Then, configure triggers and actions to send the right emails to the right people at the right time. This way, you’re able to create more email campaigns, generate more leads, and conduct regular&nbsp;follow&#8209;ups.</p>\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Key features:</h4>\n\n\n\n<ul><li>Email drip campaigns (with triggers, conditions, and&nbsp;actions)</li>\n\n<li>Targeted workflows with a visual&nbsp;editor</li>\n\n\n<li>Advanced segmentation</li>\n\n\n<li>The ability to personalize campaigns with CRM&nbsp;data</li>\n\n<li>Internal notification triggers following key&nbsp;actions</li>\n\n\n<li>Automated task reminders&nbsp;</li>\n\n\n<li>Logs of important campaign&nbsp;metrics</li></ul>\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Ease of&nbsp;use:</h4>\n\n<p>Some of HubSpot’s tools can be complex and difficult to work with. But the marketing automation platform makes nearly every function accessible from the primary&nbsp;dashboard.</p>\n\n\n<p>It doesn’t require any coding experience, though coding is still an option for users who want to refine their marketing assets. Better yet, you’ll get access to a growing library of templates, reusable layouts, and resources to help you get started.&nbsp;</p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Pricing:</h4>\n\n\n\n<p>You can try HubSpot’s marketing tools for free after creating an account. Or upgrade to the <a href=\"https://www.hubspot.com/pricing/marketing/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Starter plan</a> for $18 per month.&nbsp;</p>\n\n\n\n<img width=\"1600\" height=\"630\" src=\"https://akismet455732288.files.wordpress.com/2023/09/image-24.png\" alt=\"Grammarly homepage with screenshots\" class=\"wp-image-283375\" />\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">3. <a href=\"https://www.grammarly.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Grammarly</a></h3>\n\n\n<p>Grammarly is a popular AI marketing tool that instantly generates clear, concise content. While Grammarly is well known for its spelling and grammar checking abilities, you can also use the software to improve your writing style and brand voice throughout your content&nbsp;creation.</p>\n\n\n<p>One of the best parts about Grammarly is that you can use it directly within your desktop applications and across the web. So you can easily improve all content from emails and social media posts, to documents.&nbsp;</p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Key features:</h4>\n\n\n\n<ul><li>GrammarlyGo, which enables you to write full content pieces with just a&nbsp;prompt</li>\n\n<li>Summarized emails, and the ability to respond using context&#8209;specific&nbsp;prompts</li>\n\n<li>Integration on desktop and&nbsp;mobile</li>\n\n<li>Guidance to adjust the tone and attitude of your&nbsp;writing</li>\n\n<li>The ability to create shared guidelines across your&nbsp;team</li>\n\n<li>Integrations with over 500,000 applications, like Gmail, Google Docs, Microsoft, and&nbsp;Slack</li>\n\n<li>Enterprise&#8209;grade privacy and&nbsp;security</li></ul>\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Ease of&nbsp;use:</h4>\n\n\n<p>Once you install Grammarly, you can select your preferred English dialect and writing style in your account settings. Then, the tool works automatically to elevate your writing.&nbsp;</p>\n\n\n\n<p>You’ll receive various types of suggestions, highlighted in different colors. Then, you’re able to click on each suggestion to find more information about it. Plus, it’s easy to accept or reject the suggestions.&nbsp;</p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Pricing:</h4>\n\n\n\n<p>It’s completely free to create a Grammarly account. Or, opt for the <a href=\"https://www.grammarly.com/plans\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Premium plan</a> to access full-sentence rewrites, tone suggestions, and vocabulary ideas. This costs $12 per month with an annual subscription.&nbsp;</p>\n\n\n\n<img width=\"1600\" height=\"673\" src=\"https://akismet455732288.files.wordpress.com/2023/09/image-25.png\" alt=\"Synthesia homepage with a video\" class=\"wp-image-283378\" />\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">4. <a href=\"https://www.synthesia.io/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Synthesia</a>&nbsp;</h3>\n\n\n<p>Synthesia is a neat AI marketing tool that instantly converts your written content into high&#8209;quality videos. You can choose from a bunch of natural&#8209;sounding AI voices in over 120 languages. Meanwhile, you’re able to make your videos more engaging with over 140&nbsp;avatars.</p>\n\n\n<p>Synthesia is a great choice for agencies that produce training videos at scale. You can create, share, and edit videos all in one place. And, there are plenty of e-learning courses in sales, customer service, and marketing to help get your team up to speed.&nbsp;</p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Key features:</h4>\n\n\n\n<ul><li>Consistent voices in over 120&nbsp;languages</li>\n\n<li>Automatic closed&nbsp;captions</li>\n\n<li>The ability to clone your own&nbsp;voice</li>\n\n<li>Over 140 avatars (or create your&nbsp;own)</li>\n\n<li>Video prototypes that you can share with your&nbsp;team</li>\n\n\n<li>One-click video updates&nbsp;</li>\n\n\n\n<li>SOC 2 and GDPR compliance&nbsp;&nbsp;</li>\n\n\n\n<li>Over 200 free templates&nbsp;</li>\n\n\n<li>Integrations with WordPress and&nbsp;YouTube</li></ul>\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Ease of&nbsp;use:</h4>\n\n\n<p>This AI video generator is very easy to use thanks to Synthesia’s clean, simple interface. To start making videos, you’ll enter your audience and topic before generating a script.&nbsp;</p>\n\n\n\n<p>Next, you’re able to choose a layout for all the different scenes. Then, you can replace avatars, edit your script directly, and overlay text, images, or your business logo. When you’re done, you can download the video to share as part of your social media marketing or generate a handy link to embed it on your website.&nbsp;</p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Pricing:</h4>\n\n\n\n<p>Synthesia provides custom enterprise packages for large companies following a demo. But, you can get started with the <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https://www.synthesia.io/pricing\" target=\"_blank\">Synthesia Personal plan</a> for $22.50 per month.&nbsp;</p>\n\n\n\n<img width=\"1999\" height=\"912\" src=\"https://akismet455732288.files.wordpress.com/2023/09/image14-1.png\" alt=\"Albert homepage with a dark background\" class=\"wp-image-283379\" />\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">5. <a href=\"https://albert.ai/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Albert.ai</a></h3>\n\n\n<p>Albert is one of the best AI&#8209;powered tools for business because it can help you improve the effectiveness of your digital advertising. For instance, Albert can group keywords, build campaigns and audiences, manage budget allowance, optimize media, and provide reports with key&nbsp;insights.</p>\n\n<p>It’s a fully autonomous solution that can pretty much run the bulk tasks for certain marketing campaigns. This makes it one of the most valuable options on the list. All&#8209;in&#8209;all, it can save you tons of time, and improve the success of your&nbsp;campaigns.</p>\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Key features:</h4>\n\n\n\n<ul><li>Analytics with data&nbsp;visualization</li>\n\n<li>A dedicated dashboard to manage&nbsp;campaigns</li>\n\n\n<li>Calendar management</li>\n\n\n<li>A/B split&nbsp;testing</li>\n\n\n<li>Ad variations</li>\n\n\n<li>Budget allocation and&nbsp;scheduling</li>\n\n\n<li>Bid optimization&nbsp;</li>\n</ul>\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Ease of&nbsp;use:</h4>\n\n\n<p>Albert gives you access to an intuitive dashboard where it’s easy to track your budget allowance and oversee your advertising tasks. Additionally, Albert can handle super complex tasks with ease, which saves your business time and resources. It’s constantly learning and adapting, so your campaigns will be continually improving.&nbsp;</p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Pricing:</h4>\n\n\n<p>Albert offers customized pricing plans. That means you’ll need to <a href=\"https://albert.ai/pricing/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">request an estimate</a> to get an idea of what you can expect to&nbsp;pay.</p>\n\n\n<img width=\"1600\" height=\"685\" src=\"https://akismet455732288.files.wordpress.com/2023/09/image-26.png\" alt=\"Phrasee homepage with examples of the tool in use\" class=\"wp-image-283381\" />\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">6. <a href=\"https://phrasee.co/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Phrasee</a></h3>\n\n\n<p>Phrasee provides one of the easiest ways to elevate your online marketing messaging. You can use the software to predict what content will resonate most with your audience. Plus, you can optimize all of your content, and gain insight into what’s working and what’s&nbsp;not.</p>\n\n<p>What’s more, Phrasee is a great option for agencies, since each team member will get access to a stylish dashboard where they’ll find performance data and language insights. Here, you can also automate A/B split tests, and create high&#8209;performing marketing content for every stage of your customer journey to more effectively implement your marketing&nbsp;strategy.</p>\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Key features:</h4>\n\n\n\n<ul><li>Copy generation in real&nbsp;time</li>\n\n<li>Content Engine, which crafts material that’s backed by&nbsp;data</li>\n\n<li>Brand compliance&nbsp;support</li>\n\n<li>Support for all major digital channels, from emails to blog&nbsp;posts</li>\n\n<li>The ability to adjust the distribution of your message variants on the&nbsp;fly</li>\n\n<li>Integration with leading ESPs, CDPs, and digital engagement&nbsp;platforms</li></ul>\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Ease of&nbsp;use:</h4>\n\n\n<p>Phrasee is a complex tool, but it’s easy to learn how to use. You can access all of Phrasee’s AI features from one intuitive dashboard.&nbsp;</p>\n\n\n\n<p>Plus, the platform offers planning, creation, optimization, and analytics, so you won’t need separate solutions for each of these tasks. Better yet, it’s a great option for enterprise marketing teams, since the package includes unlimited seats.&nbsp;</p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Pricing:</h4>\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https://phrasee.co/pricing/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">The Starter plan</a> costs $500 a month, but includes unlimited content writing and unlimited seats. Phrasee also offers flexible enterprise solutions which might be best for larger&nbsp;businesses.</p>\n\n\n<img width=\"1600\" height=\"736\" src=\"https://akismet455732288.files.wordpress.com/2023/09/image-27.png\" alt=\"FullStory homepage with stats about their success\" class=\"wp-image-283384\" />\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">7. <a href=\"https://www.fullstory.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">FullStory</a></h3>\n\n\n\n<p>FullStory uses proprietary autocapture technology to monitor the quality of your digital experience. For instance, you can see where (and why) visitors are struggling with your website or mobile app.&nbsp;</p>\n\n\n\n<p>Better yet, the software flags opportunities for improvement, and prioritizes these changes by quantifying impact. This way, you can reduce friction on your site and increase sales and conversions. And, with tons of integrations, FullStory can work seamlessly with tools that your team is already using.&nbsp;</p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Key features:</h4>\n\n\n\n<ul><li>Tagless web&nbsp;autocapture</li>\n\n<li>Core product&nbsp;analytics</li>\n\n\n<li>Conversion analysis</li>\n\n\n\n<li>Retention analysis</li>\n\n\n\n<li>Session replays</li>\n\n\n<li>Robust privacy&nbsp;settings</li></ul>\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Ease of&nbsp;use:</h4>\n\n\n<p>FullStory is a highly user-friendly tool, especially when it comes to developing analytics. All you need to do is create a metric and add it to your dashboard.&nbsp;</p>\n\n\n\n<p>You can also set up different dashboards with different metrics. Better yet, FullStory adapts a “set it and forget it” model, so you can simply return to the dashboard to check on your website’s performance.&nbsp;</p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Pricing:</h4>\n\n\n<p>FullStory offers <a href=\"https://www.fullstory.com/plans/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">three plans</a>: Business, Advanced, and Enterprise. But, you won’t find prices on the website. The good news is that you can test the product for 14 days. Plus, you can speak with a professional to choose the right plan for your&nbsp;business.</p>\n\n\n<img width=\"1600\" height=\"793\" src=\"https://akismet455732288.files.wordpress.com/2023/09/image-28.png\" alt=\"Zapier homepage with icons of tools it integrates with\" class=\"wp-image-283385\" />\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">8. <a href=\"https://zapier.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Zapier</a></h3>\n\n\n<p>Zapier is a handy AI marketing tool that enables you to build custom workflows and automate many routine tasks. Better yet, it can connect tons of apps that you’re currently using to help save time and&nbsp;energy.</p>\n\n<p>All you need to do is describe what you want to automate and Zapier will write the code and build the Zaps for you. Additionally, many tasks can be automated directly within the ChatGPT interface where you can execute over 30,000 Zapier&nbsp;actions.</p>\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Key features:</h4>\n\n\n\n<ul><li>More than 30 AI app&nbsp;partners</li>\n\n\n<li>Multistep Zaps</li>\n\n\n<li>The ability to save multiple versions of your&nbsp;Zaps</li>\n\n<li>Retries for any task&nbsp;failures</li>\n\n<li>Custom logic based on certain&nbsp;conditions</li>\n\n\n<li>Advanced workflows</li>\n\n\n<li>Shared app connections (Team&nbsp;plan)</li>\n\n<li>Live chat (Team&nbsp;plan)</li></ul>\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Ease of&nbsp;use:</h4>\n\n\n<p>Zapier easily makes connections between various apps, so you don’t need to manage them all separately. Better yet, since Zapier automates actions between apps, you don&#8217;t need to monitor tasks yourself. In Zapier’s well-organized interface, you’ll lay out the triggers and steps that you want to occur, and the tool takes care of all the behind-the-scenes coding.&nbsp;</p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Pricing:</h4>\n\n\n\n<p>You can start with Zapier for free, but this will only give you access to 100 tasks per month and single-step Zaps. <a href=\"https://zapier.com/pricing\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Premium Zapier plans</a> are highly customizable. You can choose from four tiers, then select the number of tasks you can use per month, paying accordingly. Plans start at $19.99 per month for 750 tasks per month.&nbsp;</p>\n\n\n\n<img width=\"1600\" height=\"853\" src=\"https://akismet455732288.files.wordpress.com/2023/09/image-29.png\" alt=\"Chatfuel homepage with a bright green background\" class=\"wp-image-283386\" />\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">9. <a href=\"https://chatfuel.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">ChatFuel</a></h3>\n\n\n<p>ChatFuel is one of the best AI tools for ecommerce businesses and marketers. It can help boost your lead generation and increase revenue on WhatsApp. It enables you to improve your customer service and response times by adding unlimited agents to just one business&nbsp;number.</p>\n\n\n<p>You’ll also get the verified green badge, so customers know you’re trustworthy. Then, you can display personalized messages, collect customer feedback, and activate drip campaigns with an automated triggering system.&nbsp;</p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Key features:</h4>\n\n\n\n<ul><li>99.99 percent uptime&nbsp;guarantee</li>\n\n\n<li>GDPR compliance</li>\n\n\n\n<li>A/B testing</li>\n\n\n<li>Audience segmentation based on behavior and&nbsp;preferences</li>\n\n<li>Auto&#8209;replies to Instagram messages or&nbsp;mentions</li>\n\n<li>The ability to chat with visitors via the Messenger&nbsp;button</li>\n\n<li>Integration with&nbsp;ChatGPT</li>\n\n<li>The ability to sell products on&nbsp;WhatsApp</li>\n\n<li>Personalized messages to recover abandoned&nbsp;carts</li></ul>\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Ease of&nbsp;use:</h4>\n\n\n<p>ChatFuel provides one of the easiest and most intuitive chatbots on the market. It gives you access to a straightforward platform that’s simple and scalable. Plus, there’s a wide range of features to configure more complex chatbots if you need them.&nbsp;</p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Pricing:</h4>\n\n\n<p>You can try out ChatFuel at no cost. The free plan supports 50 conversions per month. You can upgrade, with <a href=\"https://chatfuel.com/pricing-main\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">premium ChatFuel plans</a> starting at $14.99 per&nbsp;month.</p>\n\n\n<img width=\"1600\" height=\"698\" src=\"https://akismet455732288.files.wordpress.com/2023/09/image-30.png\" alt=\"Keyword Insights AI homepage\" class=\"wp-image-283388\" />\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">10. <a href=\"https://www.keywordinsights.ai/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Keyword Insights&nbsp;AI</a></h3>\n\n<p>With Keyword Insights AI, you’re able to generate thousands of keyword ideas and group them into topic clusters. Then, it’s easy to create and optimize content without spending lots of time implementing key search engine optimization&nbsp;techniques.</p>\n\n<p>Better yet, you can quickly identify the search intent behind your chosen keywords, whether it’s transactional, informational, or something else. Then, when you’re happy with your keyword choice, you can send the cluster for brief creation in just a click. All of this contributes to a smoother, faster content creation&nbsp;process.</p>\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Key features:</h4>\n\n\n\n<ul><li>Clusters for up to 45,000&nbsp;keywords</li>\n\n<li>The ability to create content&nbsp;briefs</li>\n\n<li>Up to 20 keyword searches per&nbsp;month</li>\n\n<li>Live Chat&nbsp;support</li>\n\n<li>SERP Similarity&nbsp;Pro</li>\n\n<li>SERP Explorer&nbsp;Pro</li>\n\n<li>Team sharing and reporting (with paid&nbsp;plans)</li>\n\n\n<li>Cluster analysis</li>\n</ul>\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Ease of&nbsp;use:</h4>\n\n\n<p>Keyword Insights AI gives you access to a user-friendly interface where you can generate a large list of keywords around a certain topic quickly and easily. Then, you can group keywords and uncover topical clusters that are missing from your content.&nbsp;</p>\n\n\n\n<p>Next, with the AI-driven content brief generator, you’re able to create an outline for a piece of content. And in just one click, you can send off the outline to your team for review, or direct the brief straight to your content writer.&nbsp;</p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Pricing:</h4>\n\n\n<p>You can try Keyword Insights AI for $1 for four days. Then, upgrade to one of its <a href=\"https://www.keywordinsights.ai/pricing/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">paid plans</a> from $58 per month. This includes 6000 keyword clusters, ten content briefs, and five keyword searches per&nbsp;month.</p>\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Factors to consider when choosing an AI marketing tool&nbsp;</h2>\n\n\n<p>While there are many useful AI marketing tools available, it’s important to find the right option for your unique business needs. Here are some key factors to consider when choosing artificial intelligence platforms to&nbsp;implement.</p>\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Algorithm type</h3>\n\n\n<p>There are four main types of machine learning algorithms to choose from. Since each algorithm can result in a different level of accuracy and performance, this is an important factor to consider before opting for a particular AI&nbsp;tool.</p>\n\n<p>For instance, supervised learning algorithms can draw conclusions, make estimations, and develop an understanding between different algorithms. Typically, this type of learning is used to analyze trends or make predictions about your&nbsp;content.</p>\n\n\n<p>You can also find tools that rely on semi-supervised learning. This works similarly to supervised learning, but it uses labeled (contains tags to help sort information) and unlabeled data.&nbsp;</p>\n\n\n<p>Meanwhile, unsupervised learning is a great way to identify patterns and correlations. It’s often used to cluster similar data sets for tasks like customer&nbsp;segmentation.</p>\n\n\n<p>Lastly, reinforced algorithms provide a set of parameters to teach the software using trial and error. These tools learn through experience and can adapt their approach according to different situations.&nbsp;</p>\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Integration with other&nbsp;systems</h3>\n\n<p>While there are plenty of excellent AI tools, it’s important to assess whether the platform will fit nicely within your current workflow. So, it’s a good idea to take a look at the possible integrations, and how easy it is to connect the&nbsp;platforms.</p>\n\n\n<img width=\"1600\" height=\"916\" src=\"https://akismet455732288.files.wordpress.com/2023/09/image-31.png\" alt=\"list of available Akismet integrations\" class=\"wp-image-283390\" />\n\n\n<p>What’s more, it’s best to plan ahead when possible. For example, if you plan on expanding your business, you might be looking to upgrade certain systems. Keep this in mind when selecting your AI marketing tools. This way, you can prevent any future disruptions to your usual&nbsp;procedures.</p>\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Ease of&nbsp;use</h3>\n\n\n<p>Most platforms that feature AI boast about speed and automation. It’s these qualities that enable you to increase productivity and manage (or monitor) your business more efficiently.&nbsp;</p>\n\n\n\n<p>But some AI tools for businesses can be tricky to set up. For instance, some complex platforms can require access to your CRM or other types of data, which can be difficult to establish.&nbsp;</p>\n\n\n<p>Additionally, while most AI tools don’t require any coding skills, they might not be suitable for beginners. That’s why it’s a good idea to thoroughly read the customer reviews to get a sense of a tool’s&nbsp;usability.</p>\n\n<p>Sometimes, you can even try a demo or access a free trial first. That way, you can determine whether the tool will be accessible and manageable for everybody on your team. Plus, you can sometimes find free resources and forums where you can gain support and solutions to your&nbsp;problems.</p>\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Updates</h3>\n\n\n\n<p>No matter what kind of tool you add to your business (whether AI or not), it’s important to make sure that it’s updated regularly. This way, you know that the development team is still active, and the tool isn’t running outdated technology. You should expect new features to be released, which can give your business a competitive edge.&nbsp;</p>\n\n\n<p>But updates are also important for security. That’s because the longer a piece of software has been available, the more likely hackers can find a way around its security barriers. Meaning, outdated software can be used as a backdoor to your site. Plus, most updates come with fixes for common bugs and&nbsp;errors.</p>\n\n\n<p>When you’re dealing with an AI-powered tool specifically, updates are even more vital to the success of your business. This is because AI content creation tools are trained on resources until a certain point.&nbsp;</p>\n\n\n<p>For instance, <a href=\"https://openai.com/blog/chatgpt\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">ChatGPT</a> is only trained on data until late 2021. Essentially, if your chosen AI tool isn’t being updated frequently, you risk publishing outdated content, which can affect your search ranking and&nbsp;trustworthiness.</p>\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Scalability</h3>\n\n\n<p>Typically, when business owners and marketers start looking for new tools, they consider their current situation. But it’s important to consider future plans as well. Are you expecting any significant growth? Does your business fluctuate at certain times of the&nbsp;year?</p>\n\n<p>If this is the case, you can outgrow your new tool and require an upgrade, or, an entirely new solution. Therefore, it’s best to factor this into your decision&#8209;making process. You can even find specific AI marketing tools that offer plans that make it easy to scale resources up and&nbsp;down.</p>\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Security and&nbsp;privacy</h3>\n\n<p>One of the most important factors when choosing the best AI tool is security and privacy. You’ll want to make sure that your business is protected, and that any sensitive data like customer information and payment details are kept&nbsp;confidential.</p>\n\n\n<p>With this in mind, pay attention to the tool’s data handling practices, encryption methods, and compliance with regulations like GDPR. That way, you can assess whether there are any risks associated with implementing the tool on your website.&nbsp;</p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Frequently asked questions&nbsp;</h2>\n\n\n<p>Up to now, we’ve tried to cover everything you need to know about AI marketing tools, but you still may have a few doubts. So, in this section, we’ll answer some of the most common questions on the&nbsp;subject.</p>\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">How do I know which AI marketing tool to&nbsp;choose?</h3>\n\n\n<p>Since there are so many diverse AI marketing tools, it can be difficult to choose the right solution for your business. Typically, this will depend on your own unique needs.&nbsp;</p>\n\n\n\n<p>In any case, Akismet is a great tool for practically every business, since spam will always be an issue for any website. With Akismet, you can block all comment, form, and text spam without the need to manually analyze every submission.&nbsp;</p>\n\n\n<p>Better yet, Akismet boasts a 99.99% detection accuracy rate. Unlike other anti&#8209;spam solutions such as CAPTCHAs, Akismet performs these tasks without disrupting the user&nbsp;experience.</p>\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">How can AI tools help businesses improve their marketing&nbsp;strategies?</h3>\n\n<p>There are tons of artificial intelligence tools that can help businesses improve their marketing strategies. Most of these platforms make it easier and quicker to perform certain functions, enabling you to increase your content output and make your campaigns more&nbsp;effective.</p>\n\n\n<p>For instance, you can identify thousands of keywords and topical clusters using a content strategy tool like AI Keyword Insights. Meanwhile, ChatFuel enables you to boost lead generation and revenue across social media marketing apps like WhatsApp, Instagram, and Facebook. Synthesia transforms simple text prompts into engaging videos in just a few minutes.&nbsp;</p>\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">How does AI help businesses with lead&nbsp;generation?</h3>\n\n\n<p>By implementing the best AI marketing tools, you can improve many aspects of your business, including lead generation.&nbsp;</p>\n\n\n\n<p>In particular, Akismet is a great way to get more leads on your website. 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My name is Nathan Wrigley.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>Jukebox is a podcast which is dedicated to all things WordPress. The people, the events, the plugins, the blocks, the themes, and in this case, diversity in the WordPress community.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>If you&#8217;d like to subscribe to the podcast, you can do that by searching for WP Tavern in your podcast player of choice. Or by going to WPTavern.com forward slash feed forward slash podcast. And you can copy that URL into most podcast players.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>If you have a topic that you&#8217;d like us to feature on the podcast, I&#8217;m keen to hear from you, and hopefully get you, or your idea, featured on the show. Head to WPTavern.com forward slash contact forward slash jukebox, and use the form there.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>So on the podcast today, we have Birgit Olzem and Jill Binder.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>Birgit Olzem is a WordPress enthusiast who juggles diverse roles, and advocates for mental health awareness, diversity and unsung contributors. 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And we also have the resources to put into working on this issue.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>So WordPress tends to have an easier entry point, at least when I started doing this work back in 2011, 2013 ish, when I was thinking about this a lot. Such that anybody no matter their level of education, no matter their background, can jump into it, start creating blog posts. Then start wanting to tweak the CSS a little. Start coding, and then next thing you know the person is a full blown web dev agency, and so starting is easier.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>And then there&#8217;s this amazing, rich community of people to help teach, that people can learn from. And now we&#8217;ve got even more robust systems with Learn WordPress where there&#8217;s official, easy to grasp, knowledge on all things WordPress. And so our community tends to be more diverse from that standpoint.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>When I started my work the issue was, well our audience is diverse, but the people on stage are not. 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I apologise to our listeners and it&#8217;s a very important message and I invite everyone to read the proposal. It&#8217;s a long proposal, and I also digested it from seven pages down to four pages. But it&#8217;s full of information and so please read it when you have time and find your personal key points also in it.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>[00:33:33] <strong>Nathan Wrigley:</strong> I will copy and paste the exact phrasing of your five key messages there because I just paraphrased them very quickly, but there&#8217;s more in depth. And as I said, all of the links will be provided. So Jill, I think you might have something to add to that.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>[00:33:45] <strong>Jill Binder:</strong> I just want to add that Birgit&#8217;s proposal is brilliant and yes you should read it, audience members of this podcast. The only things that I&#8217;ll add is that I&#8217;m going to add another link to the show notes on an article that I wrote called, why is diversity important to WordPress and your local community?</p>\n\n\n\n<p>And that&#8217;s specifically to do with you know, why do we care about this for meetups and WordCamps? Whereas Birgit is talking about overall all contributing groups, why is it important? So, if anybody is wondering for the specific niche of events, I&#8217;ll add a link for people to read there.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>[00:34:23] <strong>Nathan Wrigley:</strong> Great thank you for that. What&#8217;s the status of this team at the moment? So we&#8217;re recording this right in the middle of August 2023. I don&#8217;t know the status, whether this is an official team, whether it&#8217;s become an official part of the WordPress project. Maybe it&#8217;s an aspirational thing at the moment. So just let&#8217;s clarify that for everybody.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>[00:34:44] <strong>Birgit Olzem:</strong> Yeah at the current status we have already managed to create a new Slack channel on a Make WordPress Slack account. It&#8217;s called deib-working-group, and everyone is invited to join. And we also have GitHub project board to track tasks, ideas, et cetera, where we can work together on this big topic.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>It&#8217;s a long term project and we are in the very first beginning to make it more global, and incorporate the current pillars, like WP Diversity initiative. Like the speaker support group.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>But also the sustainability team which was officially announced during WordCamp Europe this year. So where also the social sustainability is also part of the sustainability team. And with the upcoming WordPress Community Summit, we are also running a session about the diversity, equity, inclusion and belonging team efforts. 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Is it more about just laying the groundwork, making sure that everybody knows that they are welcome, and hoping that they feel welcomed enough to show up and then contribute, and make it their own, and feel that they&#8217;re part of the whole thing?</p>\n\n\n\n<p>So again, it&#8217;s not a tick list of things which must be done. It&#8217;s more, well, here&#8217;s what we would like to have happen. Let&#8217;s just make it an open, welcoming space, make sure that everybody understands that it&#8217;s open and welcoming and therefore, we hope, that they will show up. I may have misrepresented that, but if I haven&#8217;t, I will be happy with myself.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>[00:37:24] <strong>Jill Binder:</strong> This is sort of my area of stuff. It&#8217;s a great question. I love this question. We&#8217;ll just make it open and welcoming and people will show up. There&#8217;s a lot of things that, we see the world through our own lens, and there&#8217;s a lot of things that we don&#8217;t think about.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>So we make it open welcoming for ourselves, and don&#8217;t think about things for other people. For example, for my first few years of participating with Meetup and WordCamp Vancouver, our events were held in an amazing space on a third floor, up three flights of really rickety stairs.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>And even me, as a mostly able bodied person still hated those stairs, and we excluded a lot of people from our community. But it was such a beautiful space, and we were getting it for free and so nobody really questioned it. When we held our first speaker workshop for underrepresented members of our community, I insisted we have to find a space with elevators.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>And then I suggested that, and then we wound up having people with wheelchairs, walkers, people who&#8217;d never come out to our events before attend that event. 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Lots of great info.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>[00:39:25] <strong>Nathan Wrigley:</strong> I guess the whole premise of, I don&#8217;t know because I don&#8217;t know, that&#8217;s what you&#8217;re tackling really, isn&#8217;t it? You are saying, well, if you don&#8217;t know, here&#8217;s how to know. Here&#8217;s a bunch of stuff that you can access. It&#8217;s all online. We know you&#8217;re in the WordPress community. Very likely you have access to a computer, so you can read these things. So here it is.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>[00:39:45] <strong>Jill Binder:</strong> Yeah, yeah.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>[00:39:46] <strong>Nathan Wrigley:</strong> That, kind of excuse, I guess, going forward of, I don&#8217;t know, because I don&#8217;t know, becomes a little bit more difficult to maintain. If you don&#8217;t know, here&#8217;s the resources, go and have a look, educate yourself in those things, and hopefully in the future, we can have a more diverse WordPress than we do currently.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>I have asked all of the things that I wish to ask. However, I&#8217;m keen to let you just take the floor. If there&#8217;s something that you wish to mention or something that I just neglected to ask.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>[00:40:16] <strong>Birgit Olzem:</strong> Yeah, I just want to add something on my mind. It&#8217;s the part of the digital accessibility. It&#8217;s also part of the diversity, equity, inclusion and belonging. Especially for people with, I don&#8217;t want to focus on that, but for instance, people who are are in a neurodivergent spectrum. Accessing information, digesting information, understand how to contribute to GitHub, for instance. It can be a barrier contributing to Slack. 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Currently, it&#8217;s all over, spread over every head book and, yeah, creating a central place to find this information.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>[00:43:15] <strong>Nathan Wrigley:</strong> Could I ask Birgit, where currently, I know you&#8217;ve just said that it&#8217;s spread all over the place, if somebody having listened to this podcast, their interest is piqued and you would have just one memorable thing, memorable place, where you would send them to a page or a contact form or whatever it may be. What would be in your mind, the quickest way to get involved and express your interest in all of this?</p>\n\n\n\n<p>[00:43:39] <strong>Birgit Olzem:</strong> As I said, it&#8217;s currently difficult to tackle this specifically because there is no central place yet.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>[00:43:46] <strong>Jill Binder:</strong> I have a suggestion of where to point people to. Birgit, I&#8217;ll ask if agree, but I think the Slack channel might be kind of a easy first.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>[00:43:57] <strong>Birgit Olzem:</strong> Yes. Yeah.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>[00:43:58] <strong>Nathan Wrigley:</strong> Okay. So that is most certainly going to be linked in the show, and I will make sure that that&#8217;s in there. I&#8217;m conscious Jill that I asked Birgit if there was anything that she wanted to say. So I&#8217;ll pass the torch to you. Did we miss anything? Was there anything that you thought we failed to discuss?</p>\n\n\n\n<p>[00:44:13] <strong>Jill Binder:</strong> Things that I will add are that I&#8217;m really excited about Birgit&#8217;s proposal and Birgit&#8217;s new group. I feel like this is something that we&#8217;ve needed for a long time. And to have somebody as passionate and driven as Birgit behind it to see it through is so amazing.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>You know, the work that I&#8217;m doing with events is just one small piece of the puzzle. One of the things that I&#8217;ve said all along is when we get more people on stage, magic things happen, like they become contributors, they help out more with the project.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>And pre pandemic we had systems in place for that to happen, and post pandemic we haven&#8217;t really had that anymore. And so Birgit&#8217;s group is going to be one of the things that is going to help with that. And her group to have diversity considered in all of our Make teams, is going to be just incredible. It&#8217;s going to be so vital for our work. And I&#8217;m so excited it&#8217;s happening. And I&#8217;m really honored that the events work, the diverse speaker training group, is going to be able to basically be a piece of this bigger picture that Birgit is putting together.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>[00:45:21] <strong>Nathan Wrigley:</strong> One of the nice things about doing this podcast is getting to meet wonderful people, doing wonderful things. And I kind of feel this is a really important, really interesting, really meaningful, impactful work. So full bravo to the pair of you, and anyone else who is in fact touching this.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;m sure there&#8217;s more people that we could thank, as well. And Birgit&#8217;s nodding her head. So yeah, the answer to that is yes. But, I have you two on the call. So I&#8217;m thanking you. Really amazing stuff.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>Very final question. A very brief one. If somebody wants to reach out to you personally, A, is that possible? And B, what&#8217;s your preferred method for them reaching out? I guess it could be a, an email address or a website, or a social media handle, whatever you like.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>[00:46:06] <strong>Jill Binder:</strong> Can I add, not just me, but our group as well. There&#8217;s a few links I wanted to mention for our work. So to read up more on the diverse speaker training group, as well as to get all of our resources that I am, in August right now, currently putting together before I&#8217;m away for a few months starting in September, and I want to make sure the community has all of the resources there.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>They can all be found at tiny.cc/wpdiversity. And this is going to answer things like how do you achieve more diversity inclusion at your WordCamps? And how do you actually get that diverse speaker lineup? And also being able to hold our workshops for your local communities. So holding our diverse speaker workshop, which we&#8217;ve renamed to, how to own your expertise and find a topic to speak on. As well as holding the how to create a diverse and inclusive WordPress event.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>And so that&#8217;s all at tiny.cc/wpdiversity. I also invite people to join our Slack channel, which is purely around supporting the underrepresented voices in WordPress to speak at events. Which is diverse-speaker-support. I will make sure it&#8217;s in the show notes.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>And also to mention that the first part of my break is not an entire break. I&#8217;m still holding two big events, speaker workshop for women in India is happening September, the weekend of September 23rd, Saturday and Sunday morning in India time.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>And also a women, both of them are for WordPress, a women in WordPress Speaker Workshop, for Latin America that we&#8217;re holding in San Jose, Costa Rica, in person. Except that I&#8217;m unable to travel myself, so my head on a giant screen. It&#8217;s worked out very well when we&#8217;ve done this previously, along with a Spanish translator, and that&#8217;s happening November 11th in person for everyone but me.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>And to reach me, I won&#8217;t really be available from September to December of this year, but I would love if people go ahead and follow me on social media, and I might post some of my adventures from my break. And of course, more diversity knowledge when I come back, and maybe some things while I&#8217;m on break too if I want to put things out into the world. On Twitter, LinkedIn and Mastodon.social, I am Jill Binder on all three.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>[00:48:22] <strong>Nathan Wrigley:</strong> Thank you very much. And Birgit.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>[00:48:25] <strong>Birgit Olzem:</strong> Yeah. Thank you. And I&#8217;m kind of a sad little face for Jill leaving us for a sabbatical. But I&#8217;m also very grateful that Jill has opportunity to take a break after a long, long work in the WordPress project. And I&#8217;m very thankful for the groundwork you did already. Yeah, thank you.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>When someone wants to reach me, I&#8217;m always with my handle coachbirgit on all socials. Also on my personal website coachbirgit.com. And I&#8217;m really inviting everyone to join our Slack channel to discuss and contribute to the initiative on, dib-working-group on a Making WordPress Slack account.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>[00:49:10] <strong>Nathan Wrigley:</strong> Jill Binder, Birgit Olzem, thank you so much for chatting to me on the podcast today. I really appreciate it.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>[00:49:17] <strong>Jill Binder:</strong> Thank you.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>[00:49:18] <strong>Birgit Olzem:</strong> Thank you. Bye.</p>\n</div>\n\n\n\n<p>On the podcast today we have <a href=\"https://twitter.com/coachbirgit\">Birgit Olzem</a> and <a href=\"https://twitter.com/jillbinder\">Jill Binder</a>.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>Birgit Olzem is a WordPress enthusiast who juggles diverse roles and advocates for mental health awareness, diversity, and unsung contributors. A proud mother and grandmother, she also consults on personal branding and explores surface pattern design. Birgit champions the WordPress community, as you’ll hear, in many ways.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>Jill Binder is the Founder and CEO of Diverse in Tech. She leads the Diverse Speaker Training Group in the WordPress.org Community Team, which encourages people from underrepresented groups to speak at WordPress events. She helped organise the first BuddyCamp, and for three years co-organised WordCamp Vancouver.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>Jill and Birgit join me today to discuss the importance of diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging (DEIB for short) within the WordPress community.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>They share valuable insights regarding their efforts to create a more global and inclusive WordPress ecosystem. This includes the formation of a new working group on the Make WordPress Slack account and the use of GitHub project boards to track tasks and ideas.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>We talk about the need for unity within the community, the significance of diverse perspectives, and the importance of effective communication.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>We also get into Jill&#8217;s experience organising a training program for the Vancouver Meetup, emphasising the importance of understanding the specific needs of different communities.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>We explore the concept of sustainability within the WordPress community, addressing the financial support and resources necessary to retain and support active contributors.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>Throughout the episode both Jill and Birgit stress the importance of inclusivity, creating a welcoming environment, and providing opportunities for underrepresented voices to participate and contribute.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>If you’ve been wanting to know more about how to make the WordPress community more diverse and welcoming, this episode is for you.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>In some places the audio is a little choppy, so apologies for that, but it really is more than listenable.</p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">5 key messages mentioned in the podcast.</h2>\n\n\n\n<ol>\n<li><strong>Diversity is Strength:</strong>&nbsp;Emphasize that diversity isn’t just a buzzword; it’s the backbone of innovation and progress, especially in collaborative spaces like the WordPress community.</li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Inclusion Means Everyone:</strong>&nbsp;Clarify that DEIB efforts aren’t about favoring some over others, but ensuring everyone has equal opportunity and feels welcomed.</li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Unified Efforts, Bigger Impact:</strong>&nbsp;Talk about the importance of consolidating individual initiatives for a broader, more cohesive impact on the WordPress ecosystem.</li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Shared Responsibility:</strong>&nbsp;It’s not just up to a single group or team to promote DEIB; it’s a collective responsibility of the entire community.</li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Call to Action:</strong>&nbsp;Everyone can and should play a role in fostering DEIB in the WordPress community. Get involved, offer support, and be part of the change.</li>\n</ol>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Useful links provided by Birgit and Jill.</h2>\n\n\n\n<ul>\n<li>Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Statement: <a href=\"https://make.wordpress.org/handbook/diversity-equity-and-inclusion-in-wordpress/\">https://make.wordpress.org/handbook/diversity-equity-and-inclusion-in-wordpress/</a></li>\n\n\n\n<li>DEIB team proposal: <a href=\"https://make.wordpress.org/project/2023/07/13/proposal-for-establishing-a-make-diversity-equity-inclusion-and-belonging-deib-team-within-the-wordpress-community/\">https://make.wordpress.org/project/2023/07/13/proposal-for-establishing-a-make-diversity-equity-inclusion-and-belonging-deib-team-within-the-wordpress-community/</a></li>\n\n\n\n<li>Quicklink to the Diverse Speaker Training Group (#WPDiversity) <a href=\"https://tiny.cc/wpdiversity\">https://tiny.cc/wpdiversity</a></li>\n\n\n\n<li>For tasks of the working-group: <a href=\"https://github.com/WordPress/DEIB-Issue-Tracker/issues\">DEIB-Issue-Tracker</a> and the <a href=\"https://github.com/orgs/WordPress/projects/131\">related project board</a></li>\n\n\n\n<li>Slack channel for the DEIB working group: <a href=\"https://wordpress.slack.com/archives/C05ND1KPW0Y\">#deib-working-group</a></li>\n\n\n\n<li>Slack channel to support underrepresented speakers in WP: <a href=\"https://wordpress.slack.com/archives/C028SE81N3H\">#diverse-speaker-support</a></li>\n\n\n\n<li>WP Briefing Podcast: <a href=\"https://wordpress.org/news/2021/07/episode-13-cherishing-wordpress-diversity/\">Episode 13: Cherishing WordPress Diversity</a></li>\n</ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Other links mentioned in the podcast.</h2>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https://make.wordpress.org/project/2023/05/17/wordpress-contributor-mentorship-program-pilot-program-proposal/\">Contributor Mentorship Program</a></p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https://germany.wordcamp.org/2023/\">WordCamp Germany</a></p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https://vancouver.wordcamp.org/2023/\">WordCamp Vancouver</a></p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https://diversein.tech/\">Diverse in Tech website</a></p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https://learn.wordpress.org/\">Learn WordPress</a></p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https://make.wordpress.org/community/2021/10/19/tuesday-training-why-is-diversity-important-to-wordpress-and-your-local-community/\">Why is diversity important — To WordPress and YOUR local community?</a></p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https://make.wordpress.org/summit/\">WordPress Community Summit</a></p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https://twitter.com/jillbinder\">Jill&#8217;s Twitter</a></p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https://twitter.com/coachbirgit\