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