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What’s Next for WordPress and How You Can Help
WordCamp Columbus 2011
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Andrew Nacin Core Developer of WordPress Tech Ninja at Audrey Capital [email protected] @nacin on Twitter
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Where were we?
Let’s cover the last leap year.
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WordPress 3.0
366 days ago. 49,930,057 downloads ago.
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“The Merge”
of WordPress and WordPress MU.
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Custom content types
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Twenty Ten
First default theme in five years.
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Custom headers and backgrounds
Making theme options easier.
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Custom menus
Drag and drop simplicity.
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Let’s jump to WordPress 3.1
Released in February.
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Internal linking
Cross-link your content.
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The Admin Bar
Watch this space.
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The Debug Bar: It’s like Firebug for your WordPress.
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The Network Admin
Better multisite management.
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Post types and taxonomies
MOAR POWER.
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Incremental improvements
UI, UX, AJAX, OMG, BBQ.
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Post formats
Jazz up your blogging.
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But wait, there’s more!
WordPress 3.2.
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Distraction-Free Writing
Just write.
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Enter title here
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UI Refresh!
More of getting out of your way.
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“Faster, lighter.”
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“Upgrade, yo.”
Making the jump to PHP 5.
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“No, really.”
Making the jump to MySQL 5.
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“I mean it.”
Kicking IE6 to the curb. (IE7, you’re next.)
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(press this one)
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“Browse Happy.”
The only way.
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Twenty Eleven
Beautiful and customizable.
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All in three months.
(As of today.)
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What might be next?
WordPress 3.3 and beyond.
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Media Handling Faster, Easier Updates Improved Developer APIs Performance
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What else have we been working on?
Lots.
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Making WordPress.org A Better Place
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BuddyPress
Social networking in a box.
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bbPress 2.0
Forums in a box.
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That’s nearing release, by the way.
You should check it out.
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Then there’s mobile
Five apps and evolving quickly.
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Everything is open source!
All of them. Yep. Even iOS.
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The WordPress Family
(Aww.)
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BYOTOS
Bring Your Own Terms of Service
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You own your content
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The GPL
Your freedoms are guaranteed.
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Free as in speech!
Not as in beer. Though that too.
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The freedom to run the program for any purpose.
Freedom 0.
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The freedom to study and change the program.
Freedom 1.
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The freedom to distribute.
Freedom 2.
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The freedom to distribute your changes.
Freedom 3.
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Don’t you wish all software came with these freedoms?
So do we!
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The WordPress Family
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The WordPress trademark
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The WordPress Foundation
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WordCamps
Community-organized events put together by users like you.
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How You Can Help
Let me count the ways.
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Have fun breaking WordPress
Beta releases of 3.0 and 3.1 were downloaded 600,000 times.
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That’s what I call quality assurance
Let’s get those 3.2 numbers up.
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Support and Documentation
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The Core UI Team
make.wordpress.org/ui
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Accessibility working group
make.wordpress.org/accessibility
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Theme reviews
make.wordpress.org/themes Learn to write better themes.
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Core development
Join in!
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And finally, evangelism
The most important part.
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Thanks! —@nacin
Questions!