WordPress: Past, Present and Future
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WordPress
Past, Present, Future
Jane Wells
WordCamp IrelandMarch 6, 2010
Jane Wells, WordPress | Automattic
Master of Suggestion/Cat Herder
t: @janeforshort
w: http://jane.wordpress.com
Features
Past: Kubrick
• Rounded corners!
• Custom header
• Sidebar widgets
• Blue!
Present: Twenty Ten
• Custom header
• Custom background
• Multiple widget areas
• Cascading menus
• Sticky posts
• Theme options
• Threaded comments
• i18n
• RTL support
• Editor styling
Past: Custom Fields
Present: Custom Post Types + Custom Taxonomies
• Custom content types• Ex: Products, Listings
Custom post types + taxonomies = CMS
Past: Separate Codebases
WordPress vs. WordPress MU
Present: The Merge
WP + MU = WordPress 3.0
Past: Page Order
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You use a plugin to get around this,
don’t you?
I know I do.
Present: Custom Menus
• Re-order items• Multiple menus• Hierarchical menus
• Based on Woo Custom Nav• Mix pages, categories, links• Exclude items
Past: Bug Fixes
WordPress 0.71
“Over twenty bugs have been smitten from the code.”
Present: Bug Fixes
WordPress 3.0-alpha
283 bugs resolved, 312 to go
Contributors
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Get Involved: Developers
http://wordpress.org/development
http://wpdevel.wordpress.com
irc.freenode.net #wordpress-dev
wp-hackers mailing list
Get Involved: Designers
http://wordpress.org/development
http://make.wordpress.org/ui
irc.freenode.net #wordpress-ui
wp-ui mailing list
Questions?
@janeforshort [email protected] http://jane.wordpress.com