The WordCamp Report

He started with a review

Those Questions:

What’s with all the WordPresses.

• WordPress.org (Self Hosted)
• WordPress MU (Multi User)
• WordPress.com (Hosted Blogs)

Do you do it full time? 16 Full time Employees.

How do you make money?

• WordPress.com - Upgrades
• Akismet - Licenses

The Kubrik blue is everywhere.

A Moment.

1. Who set people up with WordPress?
2. Who has helped out?
3. Developers - Code, Plugins, Core

That’s why we’re here today…

What has happened scince last time.

• bbpress
• WordPress MU
• Autosave
• Tabbed Editing
• Ajax
• Extension to XML-RPC
• Pseudo-cron
• Custom headers
• Widgets

713 -> Number of Ideas

36,676 -> Number of votes

10 -> Releases

1,090 -> Commits fixing bugs

2,849,349 -> Number of Downloads in the last year from wordpress.org

1,041,846 -> Number of new blogs on Wordpress.com

20,212,994 -> Number of new posts on WordPress.com

1,648,046,157 -> Number of pageviews on WordPress.com

What about Akismet?

Billions over 2 Billions or so.

Installation Process nees to be easier (Never did anything)

They worked with Hosts to make it easier

Upgrading (They did nothing)

Codex (nothing done)

Theme Directory (they did) Michael Adams did a wonderful job.

We have done very well at what we’re good at. But what can they do:

Volunteers

ScreenCasts

Richer Documentation

Business Side, is he strengthing the foundation? There are things they’ll never do… opening it up for businesses to do.

THE FUTURE

• Design.
• A Platform.
• Stable, Fast, Secure, Flexible.

Will be focusing of Flexibility

wp-style - A coding style so everything fits.

BackPress - User System, Login System, Formatting, Sanitization, Script Building — can be used for the backend for galleries, forums, whatever.

WPCP - WordPressCahingProxy — Proxy Server, but more application aware. Usable for a clustor of boxes. 1000/sec

Storage - A built in API for using S3, Flickr, or other storage sites.

Internationalization - A push for translation.

Vigilance against spam - He’s the sole developer. So he need support. He showed guys who are documenting on how to make splogs.

New in 2.3

• Plugin Update Notification
• Tags
• Improved Draft and “Pending” System

They where all the top suggestions the MOST POPULAR IDEAS

Its all due to the suggest and vote system

Better Data

That’s the main goal. Going to try and actually track what plugins actually get used, and not end up deactivated.

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Q&A

Talk about Internationalization…

Its started on WordPress.com, but want more done.

Release cycle: (Major release every 4 months)

2.2 - Was released May 2007

2.3 - September 2007

2.4 - January 2008 (Will be implimenting the new admin)

4 month release cycles

• 2 months of adding
• 1 month of whittling down
• 1 month of testing

3.0 will follow 2.9 release wise.

When using WP as a CMS, wahat can be used as a comeback. This is not new technology. It has a robust user system, comment system, posts, tags and so much more.

Version Control - blicki shows version between posst. Hasn’t been advertised… will be a plugin

Visual Editor - They are helping fix the OpenSource MCE editor, Plus there are plugins for others. and they are improving an already great API so you’ll be able to do everything.

Things he plans to work on later. Right now plugins are ging to have to handle it.

• Image handling
• Sound handling
• Video handling
• Podcast handling

Akismet is efective as always. Just remember to always report.

If Aksmet is down, spam will get through. That needs to be better. it will mark it, and then let the owner know that the server just happens to be down.

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John Pozadzides of One Man Blog has posted this video of this session.

11 months, 2 weeks ago Sunday, July 22nd, 2007 at 4:50 pm.
Filed under 2007, Day 2, Presentation, WordCamp Live.
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