Listen and learn as Peter Slutsky, the Director of Platform Services at Automattic/WordPress.com, provides the history and present state of WordPress, WordPress.com, WordPress.com VIP and discusses the growth and momentum taking place in Government.

1. #WPGOV
http://bit.ly/WPinGov

2. WordPress
Peter Slutsky
Director of Platform Services
Automattic

3. The WordPress
EcosystemSelf-hosted
• Runs on your
servers
• Complete control
over the code and
experience
• “With great power
comes great
responsibility”
WordPress.com
• Largest
WordPress site in
the world
• Self-service +
easy setup
• SaaS: we run the
infrastructure
VIP
• Best of both
worlds
• All of the benefits
of WordPress.com
+ ability to run
your own custom
code
• Support and
collaboration with
VIP‟s team of
engineers

5. Core Philosophy
Rapid
iteration:
3 major
releases
every year +
easy
upgrades
Extensible:
customize
via themes
and plugins
Robust
APIs: easily
integrate
with other
services
Open: you
own your
data and
code
WordPress:
simple and
elegant, but
also powerful
and flexible

6. Most Popular CMS on the
Web
22% of all
new,
active
domains
100,000
new
WordPresse
s
every day
+60 million
WordPress
websites
Huge
community
of service
providers, web
hosts,
developers,
designers, etc.
+25k
plugins,
+1500
themes
Powers
18+%
of the web
= 1 in 6
websites

7. WordPress:
Enterprise CMS

8. Blog Platform vs. CMS
• Customize Data: you decide what your data looks
like
• Multi-Author: flexible roles and permissions
• Multisite: run „N‟ websites on a single codebase
and user system

9. Integration
• APIs: XML-RPC and REST
• Plugins: Active Directory/LDAP, Salesforce, Adobe
SiteCatalyst, Brightcove, and thousands more
• Social: Twitter, Facebook, Tumblr, LinkedIn, and
more
• VIP Featured Partner Program

10. Scalability
• Highly scalable in terms of traffic and volume
• Built-in Caching, developer tools for further
optimization
• WordPress.com:
• 4 billion page views/month
• 500k posts every day
• 400k comments every day
• Single install of WordPress

11. Security
• Thousands of organizations with a vested interest
in making WordPress secure
• Highly secure: full code reviews by core team, and
testing by US government, financial institutions,
etc.
• Upgrades make it easy to always be running the
latest and greatest WordPress
• VaultPress: realtime back-ups and security
monitoring

12. Mobile
• WordPress apps for all major mobile devices
• Responsive Design
• Mobile-optimized themes
• Power your apps with WordPress

13. WordPress.com VIP Services
• Support and cloud hosting for enterprise WordPress sites
• High availability: thousands of servers, 12 data centers
• Full code reviews for optimization and security feedback
• Unlimited 24/7 support for critical issues
• Unlimited support for code review / best practices / advice
on plugins as part of VIP Developer Support
• Unlimited traffic, unlimited bandwidth, and unlimited
storage, including our CDN

14. Spotlight: Government

15. Spotlight: Media

16. Peter Slutsky
TITLE: Director of Platform Services
EMAIL: ps@automattic.com
PHONE: 215-913-0403
TWITTER: @pslutsky
WEBSITE: www.vip.wordpress.com
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