171 - How EmergencyWP can protect your online legacy

Interview - How EmergencyWP can protect your online legacy.
*** Discount available (see the end of the post).

I have never done with before, but this podcast was recorded a few months ago and, at that time, there was no hint that we would be in the middle of the Coronavirus outbreak. The plugin that we are talking about today is one that you might which to use in the event that you would like to create a virtual "locker" of information that you would like to available to people in the event that you pass away - there are other uses too.

I realise that the timing could have been better, and I thought long and hard about whether this episode ought to be rescheduled because of the topic that it covers and the situation that we all find ourselves in.

I decided to release this episode after talking to a few people. In conversations these people mentioned that they felt that their legacy is in many ways tied into their online lives, it could be passwords to services, photo collections, emails and so forth. Many felt that they have made poor provision to pass this information on in an intelligible way. The plugin that is under discussion today does assist with that.

So up front I'm saying that if this topic is too close to home right now, please stop reading (or listening) right here. I'm sorry if this podcast episode impacts anyone in this way, but I thought that the value that it might bring to some people meant that it was worth publishing, with clear warnings at the beginning.

So today I'm talking with Albert Brückmann, the founder of EmergencyWP which is a WordPress plugin that you can use to protect your legacy, both online and offline.

Think of EmergencyWP as a way of a silo of information that you would like to pass on to anyone in the event that you pass away.

Albert created the EmergencyWP plugin, and the various iterations that went before it, as a result of an accident that occurred to a friend who had made insufficient preparations. It made Albert realise that the unexpected can happen and that having options to organise what and how your relations and friends receive might be something that you wish to be in control of.

Possible use cases of EmergencyWP

• as a freelancer, you manage a lot of client data. Be a good freelancer. Help clients data to survive
• as a parent, you often handle bank accounts, insurance documents, contracts, online accounts, while your spouse may not know everything - take care, don’t leave them wondering how everything works if you’re gone
• when you have children, plan emotional, uplifting future messages for them
• as a business owner, do some plans what should happen with your company when you can’t run it yourself anymore - prepare the needed credentials in time.
• as a (political) refugee or whistleblower, you can publish information to newspaper if something should happen to you
• for posterity, if you want to send status messages to instagram, facebook etc.

There are no doubt a bunch of questions that you might have about this such as... How will I manage to keep a WordPress website up and running if I'm no longer around? Is the data stored in a way that I can be confident is secure? How does a WordPress plugin know when to start sending out notifications? Is this something that a non-technical user can interact with? Does this work best in a vanilla install or are there other plugins which might enhance how this operates?

We get through all of that and a whole lot more including the plans and the roadmap for EmergencyWP going forwards.

Discount available:

Albert has kindly offered a 50% discount to WP Builds listeners if they purchase the 'lifetime bullet proof package' of the plugin on or before the 26th March 2020.

If you miss that you can still get 20% off until 16th April 2020.

Click on the button below and use the offer code "wpbuilds2020" at the checkout...

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EmergencyWP