WordState of the

P H I L A D E L P H I A , P A • 2 0 1 5

Matt Mullenweg@photomatt

#WCUS

THANK YOU TO OUR SPONSORS

THANK YOU TO OUR ORGANIZERS

Kim ParsellWordPress docs. Plugin author. 3.7 Recent Rockstar.3.9 Contributing Developer.My contributing streak now stands at 6 releases. #wpmom

Alex KingAn original contributor to WordPress, web developer, founder of Crowd Favorite.

LOOKING BACK

Ten Years of WordCamp

August 5, 2006

Photo: Scott Beale

Ten Years

Version

2.0

July 21, 2007

Photo: Josh Hallett

Version

2.1

Photo: Scott Beale

August 16, 2008

Version

2.6

May 30, 2009

Photo: Sean O’Shaughnessy

Version

2.7

Photo: Sheri Bigelow

May 1, 2010

Version

2.9

Photo: Aaron Brazell

August 12, 2011

Version

3.2

August 7, 2012

Photo: Sheri Bigelow

Version

3.4

July 26, 2013

Photo: Sheri Bigelow

Version

3.6

October 25, 2014

Photo: Sheri Bigelow

Version

4.0

2015

WordCamp Stats

In 2015 alone…

34COUNTRIES

21kATTENDEES

89CAMPS

60% for the first time

601ORGANIZERS

1.6kSPE AKERS

2.1kSESSIONS

presented

40kPEOPLE

2.0kEVENTS

attended

Meetups beat it :

Technology is at its best when it brings

people together.

Moved from downloads to activity

Adopted Slack

WordPress.tv is now open source

Localized plugin & theme directories

All themes & plugins now support language packs

With community-based translations from translate.wordpress.org

Added over 9,000 plugins in past year

Plugin Directory crossed one billion downloads

0.2

0.2

0.2

0.3

75% TO GO…

25%of the web runs on WordPress

2015

An exciting year for WordPress releases

TWENTY FIFTEEN

4.1DINAH

WASHINGTON

4.1DINAH

WASHINGTON

DISTRACTION-FREE WRITING

4.1DINAH

WASHINGTON

LANGUAGE SELECTION

4.2Bud

Powell

PRESS THIS

4.2Bud

Powell

THEMES IN CUSTOMIZER

4.2Bud

Powell

EMOJI!

🎉

MENUS IN CUSTOMIZER

4.2billie

holiday

4.2billie

holiday

SITE ICONS

4.2billie

holiday

FORMATTING SHORTCUTS

John Blackbourn

4.1

Konstantin Obenland

4.2

Drew Jaynes

4.3

2015 RELE ASE LE ADS

A STORY

Addressing Version Fragmentation

Bluehost

Over 2M WordPresses

WordPress Versions

80%

20%

Using Latest Using Older

For Every Site

Backup Upgrade

Detect any problems

2.6M Core Updates

Along with Plugins & Themes

.006% of updated sites contacted

support

Ongoing support down 18%This includes hacked sites.

PHP is next.

About 20% done, but harder

Auto-update means each new release is adopted faster than ever.

4.34.24.1

4.4 is right around the corner

Shipping Tuesday

Scott Taylor4.4 RELE ASE LE AD

WordPress 4.4

Over 2,000 Commits

Over 400 Contributors

Lots of Little ThingsWP_Comment

WP_Term WP_Network

drastic overhaul of Comment queries Pretty Permalinks for all Media, attached or not

Scaffolding of REST API

REST APIAn alternative to XML-RPC An alternative to admin-ajax

Speak JSON with other websites Create your own arbitrary endpoints

NEW DEFAULT THEME

Twenty Sixteen

Responsive Images

Responsive Images

Supply all relevant sizes Browser picks the best image source Potentially smaller images on mobile

Automatic retina support

Term Meta

oEmbed for WordPress

oEmbed for WordPress

Your WordPress site becomes an oEmbed provider Links to your content become rich previews on other

WordPress sites Previews contain embed code to use on

non-WordPress sites

WordPress 4.4

Mike Schroder

4.5

Dominik Schilling

4.6

Matt Mullenweg

4.7

UPCOMING RELE ASE LE ADS

CONTRIBUTORS

802Thank you!

COMMIT ACCESS

2015

2016

205ACCESSIBILITY

TICKETS COMPLETED

80% increase from last year

“I cannot believe the goldmine that the WP-API represents. Having built hundreds of apps professionally and managed many high-end clients, there is no better, simpler, way to create a mobile stack. Period!

It’s the code equivalent of Graphene!

”

Four REST Stories

Microsoft

An ERP SolutionWhat is Microsoft Dynamics AX?

Increase the speed of doing business

Deliver amazing customer experiences

Work smarter with connected operations

Drive business performance

What’s behind it?

Nomadbase

StoryCorps

Featured on Google.com

BLOG

CMS

APP PLATFORM

WordPress

CMS

BlogE-Commerce

CalypsoWhat would it look like if we created a new

interface to WordPress from scratch?

100% JavaScript

Leveraging React

Social

Multi-site

Dozens of PHP-only developers

learned JavaScript.

Version 1.0

PHP is not going away.

JavaScript & API-driven interfaces

are the future.

An API is the key of an

open web.

COMING SOON

Going SSL with LetsEncrypt

COMING SOON

PHP 7

We will work on getting top plugins & themes available in

every language.

INTERFACE

JavaScriptAPI

PHP

CustomizationThe biggest opportunity for

improving new user experience.

WordPress will reverse the trend of

closed APIs.

HOMEWORK ASSIGNMENT:

Learn JavaScript,

deeply.

WORDCAMP US 2016

December 2–4

See you next year!

THANK YOU!

A@photomatt

#WCUS

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