Word State of the P
H I L A D E L P H I A , P A • 2 0 1 5

Matt Mullenweg
@photomatt
#WCUS

THANK YOU TO OUR SPONSORS

THANK YOU TO OUR ORGANIZERS

Kim Parsell WordPress docs. Plugin
author. 3.7 Recent Rockstar. 3.9 Contributing Developer. My contributing streak now stands at 6 releases. #wpmom Alex King An original contributor to WordPress, web developer, founder of Crowd Favorite.

LOOKING BACK Ten Years of
WordCamp

August 5, 2006 Photo: Scott
Beale

Version
2.0

July 21, 2007 Photo: Josh
Hallett

Version
2.1

Photo: Scott Beale August 16,
2008

Version
2.6

May 30, 2009 Photo: Sean
O’Shaughnessy

Version
2.7

Photo: Sheri Bigelow May 1,
2010

Version
2.9

Photo: Aaron Brazell August 12,
2011

Version
3.2

August 7, 2012 Photo: Sheri
Bigelow

Version
3.4

July 26, 2013 Photo: Sheri
Bigelow

Version
3.6

October 25, 2014 Photo: Sheri
Bigelow

Version
4.0

2015
WordCamp Stats

In 2015 alone… 34COUNTRIES 21kATTENDEES
89CAMPS

60% for the first time
601ORGANIZERS

1.6kSPEAKERS
2.1kSESSIONS
presented

40kPEOPLE 2.0kEVENTS attended Meetups beat
it:

Technology is at its best
when it brings people together.

Moved from
downloads to activity

Adopted Slack

WordPress.tv
is now open source

Localized plugin &
theme directories

All themes & plugins now
support language packs With community-based translations from translate.wordpress.org

Added over 9,000 plugins in
past year Plugin Directory crossed one billion downloads

0.2 0.2 0.2 0.3 75%
TO GO… 25%of the web runs on WordPress

2015 An exciting year for
WordPress releases

TWENTY FIFTEEN
4.1
DINAH
WASHINGTON

4.1
DINAH
WASHINGTON
DISTRACTION-FREE WRITING

4.1
DINAH
WASHINGTON
LANGUAGE SELECTION

4.2
Bud
Powell
PRESS THIS

4.2 Bud Powell THEMES IN
CUSTOMIZER

4.2
Bud
Powell
EMOJI!
🎉

MENUS IN CUSTOMIZER 4.2 billie
holiday

4.2
billie
holiday
SITE ICONS

4.2
billie
holiday
FORMATTING SHORTCUTS

John Blackbourn 4.1 Konstantin Obenland
4.2 Drew Jaynes 4.3 2015 RELEASE LEADS

A STORY
Addressing Version
Fragmentation

Bluehost

Over 2M
WordPresses

WordPress Versions 80% 20% Using
Latest Using Older

For Every Site Backup Upgrade
Detect any problems

2.6M Core Updates Along with
Plugins & Themes

.006% of updated sites contacted
support

Ongoing support down 18% This
includes hacked sites.

PHP is next. About 20%
done, but harder

Auto-update means each new release
is adopted faster than ever. 4.34.24.1

4.4 is right around the
corner Shipping Tuesday

Scott Taylor
4.4 RELEASE LEAD

WordPress 4.4

Over 2,000
Commits

Over 400
Contributors

Lots of Little Things WP_Comment
WP_Term WP_Network drastic overhaul of Comment queries Pretty Permalinks for all Media, attached or not

Scaffolding of
REST API

REST API An alternative to
XML-RPC An alternative to admin-ajax Speak JSON with other websites Create your own arbitrary endpoints

NEW DEFAULT THEME
Twenty Sixteen

Responsive
Images

Responsive Images Supply all relevant
sizes Browser picks the best image source Potentially smaller images on mobile Automatic retina support

Term Meta

oEmbed for
WordPress

oEmbed for WordPress Your WordPress
site becomes an oEmbed provider Links to your content become rich previews on other WordPress sites Previews contain embed code to use on non-WordPress sites

WordPress 4.4

Mike Schroder 4.5 Dominik Schilling
4.6 Matt Mullenweg 4.7 UPCOMING RELEASE LEADS

CONTRIBUTORS
802
Thank you!

COMMIT ACCESS
2015
2016

205ACCESSIBILITY TICKETS COMPLETED 80% increase
from last year

“I cannot believe the goldmine
that the WP-API represents. Having built hundreds of apps professionally and managed many high-end clients, there is no better, simpler, way to create a mobile stack. Period! It’s the code equivalent of Graphene!

Four
REST Stories

Microsoft

An ERP Solution What is
Microsoft Dynamics AX? Increase the speed of doing business Deliver amazing customer experiences Work smarter with connected operations Drive business performance

What’s behind it?

Nomadbase

StoryCorps

Featured on
Google.com

BLOG
CMS
APP
PLATFORM

WordPress
CMS
BlogE-Commerce

Calypso What would it look
like if we created a new interface to WordPress from scratch?

100%
JavaScript
Leveraging React

Social

Multi-site

Dozens of PHP-only developers
learned JavaScript.

Version 1.0

PHP is not
going away.

JavaScript & API-driven interfaces
are the future.

An API is the
key of an open web.

COMING SOON Going SSL with
LetsEncrypt

COMING SOON
PHP7

We will work on getting
top plugins & themes available in every language.

INTERFACE
JavaScript
API
PHP

Customization The biggest opportunity for
improving new user experience.

WordPress will reverse the trend
of closed APIs.

HOMEWORK ASSIGNMENT:
Learn
JavaScript,
deeply.

WORDCAMP US 2016 December 2–4
See you next year!

THANK YOU! A @photomatt #WCUS
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