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The code history of WordPress
WordCamp Paris - 2014
Who I am?• Marko Heijnen - @markoheijnen
• Working at 1&1 as their WordPress specialist
• WordPress core contributor
• GlotPress core developer - @GlotPress
• Co author of WP_Image_Editor
Our timeline• 2003 - WordPress was founded
• 2005 - WordPress 2.0 got released
• 2006 - I started to use WordPress
• 2010 - My first contribution to WordPress
• 2012 - Recent rockstar of 3.4
• 2013 - WordPress becomes 10
• 2013 - 3.8 was the 21 major release
January 17, 2014 at 08:07
The first couple of years I missed
I would say the golden years
It was founded by
Matt Mullenweg Mike Little
It all started almost 11 years ago when Matt
wrote a blog post
The comment
And WordPress was born
But what were the most important changes that happened in the code?
Post MetaWhen was this added to WordPress?
0.70• WordPress had its first release as a fork of
b2 on May 27, 2003
• A lot of code cleanups to make it more stable and faster
• Functions like texturize and manual excerpt were added
1.0 “Miles Davis”• Search engine friendly
permalinks
• Multiple categories
January 3, 2004
1.2 “Charles Mingus”• Post meta
• New plugin architecture
• Encryption of password
• Localization
• Sub categories
• Thumbnail creation
May 22, 2004
The WordPress Plugin Repository
• On January 10, 2005 the WordPress Plugin repository was announced
• It was then on WP-Plugins.org
• It was focused on Trac since it didn’t have a user friendly front-end, yet
1.5 “Billy Strayhorn”• The basic template engine
was added
• Pages was added
February 17, 2005
2.0 “Duke Ellington”• AJAX functionality got added
• Capability API
• Inline uploading
• User level options
• Pluggable object cache
• Functions.php was added
• Nonces 2.0.3
December 31, 2005
2.1 “Ella Fitzgerald”• Autosave
• All queries got checked
• More AJAX
• Cron API
• WP_Error class was added
January 22, 2007
2.2 “Stan Getz”• Widgets API
• Started using jQuery
• PHPMailer got added
• Increased the inline documentation
May 16, 2007
The first unit tests gotSeptember 20, 2007
2.3 “Dexter Gordon”• Updating system
• Taxonomy API got added
• Canonical URLs
• $wpdb->prepare()
• Activation protection
• Restructure of wp-admin folder
September 24, 2007
2.5 “Michael Brecker”• Shortcode API
• Multi-file upload with progress bar
• EXIF extraction
• Search posts and pages
• Installing/updating plugins
March 29, 2008
22 contributors
2.6 “McCoy Tyner”• Post Revisions
• Full SSL support
• Theme previews
July 15, 2008
75 contributors
2.7 “John Coltrane”• HTTP API
• Uninstall a plugin
• Settings API
• wp_page_menu()
• Plugin installer
• WordPress upgrader
December 10, 2008
144 contributors
2.8 “Chet Baker”• New Widgets API
• HTTP API updates and fixes
• Search/Install themes
June 11, 2009
2.9 “Carmen McRae”• Built-in image editor
• Post thumbnails
• Basic post type support
• Meta data for comments
• oEmbed
December 18, 2009
140> contributors
3.0 “Thelonious Monk”• WordPress MU merged
• Custom menus
• Custom post type support
• Lots of other improvements
June 17, 2010
218 contributors
3.1 “Django Reinhardt”• Admin bar
• WP_User_Query
• Advanced queries
• List-type Admin Screens
February 23, 2011
180> contributors
3.2 “George Gershwin”• Moved to PHP 5 and MySQL 5
• Speed improvements
• WP_Meta_Query
July 4, 2011
133 contributors
3.3 “Sonny Stitt”• New editor API
• Post-slug-only permalinks
• is_main_query()
• WP_Screen
• Metadata API improvements
December 12, 2011
179 contributors
3.4 “Grant Green”• Theme customizer
• wp.* XML-RPC methods
• WP_Theme
June 13, 2012
183 contributors
More awareness for out unit tests
3.5 “Elvin Jones”• WP_Image_Editor
• switch_to_blog()
• Underscore/Backbone
• WP_Comment_Query and WP_User_Query excepting meta queries
December 11, 2012
260 contributors
3.5 “Elvin Jones”• WP_Post
• Ordering by post__in
• AJAX support functions like wp_send_json_success()
December 11, 2012
260 contributors
3.6 “Oscar Peterson”• Audio/Video support
• Better control for revisions
• has_shortcode()
• Heartbeat API
August 1, 2013
225 contributors
3.7 “Count Basie”• Automattic updates
• Stronger passwords
• Language packs
• Cleanup tickets
• Better documentation
• Improved Search
• Date queries
October 24, 2013
211 contributors
3.8 “Charlie Parker”• Heartbeat performance and
API improvements
• Nginx detection
• automatic_updates_complete
December 12, 2013
188 Contributors
A great progress was made
Backwards compatibility
The market
PHP versions
Our tools• Official GIT mirrors
• Grunt
• JSHint
• Unit testing PHP and JS
• Minification
• Sass
The future• 2014 looks like a great year for new API
features like:
• WP API
• Media improvements
• Post Meta library
• More see: http://make.wordpress.org/core/features-as-plugins/
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