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1. Find The One
A guide to finding a lover plugin

2. What Am I
Looking for?
http://educatedmachine.com

3. The Boxes
❏ Tall
❏ Dark
❏ Handsome
❏ Land
❏ Roadside frontage
❏ Collect email addresses
❏ Sync with mailchimp

4. Where should I
look?
http://educatedmachine.com

5. Where are they?
❏ Ask friends
❏ Stalk on facebook
❏ Google
❏ Dating Websites
❏ Shady bars
❏ Ask friends
❏ Ask in forums
❏ Google (your new best friend)
❏ Search the Wordpress Plugin
Repo

7. ...ok, I think I found one I like

8. What do others
think?
http://educatedmachine.com

9. Start asking questions
❏ Hire a private investigator
❏ Ask their ex lovers
❏ Background check
❏ Read reviews
❏ Search google for reviews
❏ Search youtube for overview
videos or tutorials

10. Warning Signs
http://educatedmachine.com

11. Red Flags
❏ You’re being followed
❏ There’s a strange figure
outside your bedroom window
every night.
❏ Their profile pictures are at
obscure angles.
❏ Says he’s a nigerian prince and
wants to give you money.
❏ 5 Star Rating - 1 Review
❏ Hasn’t been updated in years
❏ Support forum is full of
unanswered questions
❏ Badly documented

12. What to look for
http://educatedmachine.com

13. Good traits
❏ Real person
❏ Has a ferrari
❏ Great documentation
❏ Video tutorials on youtube
❏ A lot of active installs
❏ Highly rated
❏ Great support
❏ Frequently updated
❏ Premium Upgrades

14. ...ok, you’ll do

15. Let’s give it a go
http://educatedmachine.com

16. Let’s do this
❏ Start dating, but not where
people you know would see you.
❏ See how they are around other
humans.
❏ Test them in many scenarios
❏ Install on a local version of
the site, never the live
version.
❏ See how it reacts to the other
plugins.
❏ Test it in many scenarios

17. ...it’s love

18. Make it official
http://educatedmachine.com

19. Let’s make it official
❏ Introduce them to the family
❏ Bring them out in public once a
week.
❏ See how things go.
❏ Install it on the live site.
❏ See how your users react to it.
❏ Monitor how it affects the
performance of the site.

20. ...6 month’s later

22. Written by Darragh Canning | Designed by Magdalena Przybylowska
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