My presentation at WordCamp Columbus 2011 - What's Next for WordPress and How You Can Help.

1. What’s Next for WordPress
and How You Can Help
WordCamp Columbus 2011

2. Andrew Nacin
Core Developer of WordPress
Tech Ninja at Audrey Capital
nacin@wordpress.org
@nacin on Twitter

3. Where were we?
Let’s cover the last leap year.

4. WordPress 3.0
366 days ago.
49,930,057 downloads ago.

5. “The Merge”
of WordPress and WordPress MU.

6. Custom content types

7. Twenty Ten
First default theme in five years.

9. Custom headers and
backgrounds
Making theme options easier.

15. Custom menus
Drag and drop simplicity.

17. Let’s jump to WordPress 3.1
Released in February.

18. Internal linking
Cross-link your content.

20. The Admin Bar
Watch this space.

21. The Debug Bar: It’s like Firebug for your WordPress.

22. The Network Admin
Better multisite management.

23. Post types and taxonomies
MOAR POWER.

24. Incremental improvements
UI, UX, AJAX, OMG, BBQ.

25. Post formats
Jazz up your blogging.

26. But wait, there’s more!
WordPress 3.2.

27. Distraction-Free Writing
Just write.

28. Enter title here

29. UI Refresh!
More of getting out of your way.

33. “Faster, lighter.”

34. “Upgrade, yo.”
Making the jump to PHP 5.

35. “No, really.”
Making the jump to MySQL 5.

36. “I mean it.”
Kicking IE6 to the curb.
(IE7, you’re next.)

38. (press this one)

39. “Browse Happy.”
The only way.

43. Twenty Eleven
Beautiful and customizable.

46. All in three months.
(As of today.)

47. What might be next?
WordPress 3.3 and beyond.

48. Media Handling
Faster, Easier Updates
Improved Developer APIs
Performance

49. What else have we been
working on?
Lots.

50. Making WordPress.org
A Better Place

51. BuddyPress
Social networking in a box.

52. bbPress 2.0
Forums in a box.

53. That’s nearing release,
by the way.
You should check it out.

54. Then there’s mobile
Five apps and evolving quickly.

60. Everything is open source!
All of them. Yep. Even iOS.

61. The WordPress Family
(Aww.)

62. BYOTOS
Bring Your Own Terms of Service

63. You own your content

64. The GPL
Your freedoms are guaranteed.

65. Free as in speech!
Not as in beer. Though that too.

66. The freedom to run the
program for any purpose.
Freedom 0.

67. The freedom to study and
change the program.
Freedom 1.

68. The freedom to distribute.
Freedom 2.

69. The freedom to distribute
your changes.
Freedom 3.

70. Don’t you wish all software
came with these freedoms?
So do we!

71. The WordPress Family

72. The WordPress trademark

73. The WordPress Foundation

74. WordCamps
Community-organized events
put together by users like you.

75. How You Can Help
Let me count the ways.

76. Have fun breaking
WordPress
Beta releases of 3.0 and 3.1 were
downloaded 600,000 times.

77. That’s what I call
quality assurance
Let’s get those 3.2 numbers up.

78. Support and
Documentation

79. The Core UI Team
make.wordpress.org/ui

80. Accessibility
working group
make.wordpress.org/accessibility

81. Theme reviews
make.wordpress.org/themes
Learn to write better themes.

82. Core development
Join in!

83. And finally, evangelism
The most important part.

84. Thanks!
—@nacin
Questions!