State of the Word 2015, WordCamp US

State of the Word 2015, WordCamp US

1. Word State of the P H I L A D E L P H I A , P A • 2 0 1 5
2. Matt Mullenweg @photomatt #WCUS
3. THANK YOU TO OUR SPONSORS
4. THANK YOU TO OUR ORGANIZERS
5. Kim Parsell WordPress docs. Plugin author. 3.7 Recent Rockstar.
 3.9 Contributing Developer.
 My contributing streak now stands at 6 releases. #wpmom Alex King An original contributor 
 to WordPress, web developer, founder of Crowd Favorite.
6. LOOKING BACK Ten Years of WordCamp
7. August 5, 2006 Photo: Scott Beale
8. Version 2.0
9. July 21, 2007 Photo: Josh Hallett
10. Version 2.1
11. Photo: Scott Beale August 16, 2008
12. Version 2.6
13. May 30, 2009 Photo: Sean O’Shaughnessy
14. Version 2.7
15. Photo: Sheri Bigelow May 1, 2010
16. Version 2.9
17. Photo: Aaron Brazell August 12, 2011
18. Version 3.2
19. August 7, 2012 Photo: Sheri Bigelow
20. Version 3.4
21. July 26, 2013 Photo: Sheri Bigelow
22. Version 3.6
23. October 25, 2014 Photo: Sheri Bigelow
24. Version 4.0
25. 2015 WordCamp Stats
26. In 2015 alone… 34COUNTRIES 21kATTENDEES 89CAMPS
27. 60% for the first time 601ORGANIZERS
28. 1.6kSPEAKERS 2.1kSESSIONS presented
29. 40kPEOPLE 2.0kEVENTS attended Meetups beat it:
30. Technology is at its best when it brings people together.
31. Moved from
 downloads to activity
32. Adopted Slack
33. WordPress.tv is now open source
34. Localized plugin &
 theme directories
35. All themes & plugins now support language packs With community-based translations from translate.wordpress.org
36. Added over 9,000 plugins in past year Plugin Directory crossed one billion downloads
37. 0.2 0.2 0.2 0.3 75% TO GO… 25%of the web runs on WordPress
38. 2015 An exciting year for WordPress releases
39. TWENTY FIFTEEN 4.1 DINAH WASHINGTON
40. 4.1 DINAH WASHINGTON DISTRACTION-FREE WRITING
41. 4.1 DINAH WASHINGTON LANGUAGE SELECTION
42. 4.2 Bud Powell PRESS THIS
43. 4.2 Bud Powell THEMES IN CUSTOMIZER
44. 4.2 Bud Powell EMOJI! 🎉
45. MENUS IN CUSTOMIZER 4.2 billie holiday
46. 4.2 billie holiday SITE ICONS
47. 4.2 billie holiday FORMATTING SHORTCUTS
48. John Blackbourn 4.1 Konstantin Obenland 4.2 Drew Jaynes 4.3 2015 RELEASE LEADS
49. A STORY Addressing Version Fragmentation
50. Bluehost
51. Over 2M WordPresses
52. WordPress Versions 80% 20% Using Latest Using Older
53. For Every Site Backup Upgrade Detect any problems
54. 2.6M Core Updates Along with Plugins & Themes
55. .006% of updated sites contacted support
56. Ongoing support down 18% This includes hacked sites.
57. PHP is next. About 20% done, but harder
58. Auto-update means each new release is adopted faster than ever. 4.34.24.1
59. 4.4 is right around the corner Shipping Tuesday
60. Scott Taylor 4.4 RELEASE LEAD
61. WordPress 4.4
62. Over 2,000 Commits
63. Over 400 Contributors
64. Lots of Little Things WP_Comment WP_Term WP_Network drastic overhaul of Comment queries Pretty Permalinks for all Media, attached or not
65. Scaffolding of REST API
66. REST API An alternative to XML-RPC An alternative to admin-ajax Speak JSON with other websites Create your own arbitrary endpoints
67. NEW DEFAULT THEME Twenty Sixteen
68. Responsive Images
69. Responsive Images Supply all relevant sizes Browser picks the best image source Potentially smaller images on mobile Automatic retina support
70. Term Meta
71. oEmbed for WordPress
72. 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
73. WordPress 4.4
74. Mike Schroder 4.5 Dominik Schilling 4.6 Matt Mullenweg 4.7 UPCOMING RELEASE LEADS
75. CONTRIBUTORS 802 Thank you!
76. COMMIT ACCESS 2015 2016
77. 205ACCESSIBILITY TICKETS COMPLETED 80% increase from last year
78. “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!
79. Four REST Stories
80. Microsoft
81. An ERP Solution What is Microsoft Dynamics AX? Increase the speed of doing business Deliver amazing customer experiences Work smarter with connected operations Drive business performance
82. What’s behind it?
83. Nomadbase
84. StoryCorps
85. Featured on Google.com
86. BLOG CMS APP PLATFORM
87. WordPress CMS BlogE-Commerce
88. Calypso What would it look like if we created a new interface to WordPress from scratch?
89. 100% JavaScript Leveraging React
90. Social
91. Multi-site
92. Dozens of 
 PHP-only developers 
 learned JavaScript.
93. Version 1.0
94. PHP is not going away.
95. JavaScript & 
 API-driven interfaces are the future.
96. An API is 
 the key of an open web.
97. COMING SOON Going SSL with LetsEncrypt
98. COMING SOON PHP7
99. We will work on getting top plugins & themes available in every language.
100. INTERFACE JavaScript API PHP
101. Customization The biggest opportunity for improving new user experience.
102. WordPress will reverse the trend of closed APIs.
103. HOMEWORK ASSIGNMENT: Learn JavaScript, deeply.
104. WORDCAMP US 2016 December 2–4 See you next year!
105. THANK YOU! A @photomatt #WCUS &Q