The WordCamp Report

Post has been updated with the Video of this, that was shot by John P., at the bottom.

Matt Mullenweg after some set up, and allowing some time to talk amoung ourselves, gets started.

Strong. (promises to to only use a transition once…)

And the numbers last year -to->  this year

User Suggestions

713 -> 931 (Suggestion)

36,676 -> 12,932 (Votes)

Maybe not providing enough info about suggestion ideas

1,090 -> 2,840  (Number of Changes)

11 Releases this last month ( : )
3 New Developers

• Mark Janquith
• Peter Westwood
• Andrew Ozz

Downloads

2,849,349 -> 11,148,764

Wordpress.com

1 to almost 2 million Blogs

20,212,994 -> 35,832,126 (New Blogs)

1.6 Billion to 6.5 Billion (pageviews)

3 times the pageview (number not given) are .org bloggers

5 Billion caught 99.57% Accuracy of Akismet

Aside: Spammers are getting cleverer

Compliment Spam so far has been the most effective.

WordCamps

9 last year

14 Coming Up

50-450 people in each one

4-5000 people all over are going to them

Milan was in a park to a couple hundred, SF is tech, the greek one was only 50 or so people but was based mainly on eating.

3 major Releases

6 major additons

Admin redesign

Multi-file Upload

Gallery

One-Click Plugin Upgrades

Gears

Revision Tracking

Press-This

iPhone App!

70,000 Installs

154 reviews

Matt wants a wii interface. Offers stage presence to them.

Theme Directory

World Premiere:

WordPress Zeitgeist

WordPress Usage

2,604,288

WordPress.org Blogs

1,777,222 Secure

+ thousands more daily

2.5 and 2.6 are both going up in numbers.  2.3 Numbers hasn’t been changing.

Apologizes for php5 comments.

Good News:

2/3 of blogs are on php5

Until it drops well below 10% of users are using php4 they’ll keep supporting it.

So far they haven’t been held back by php4 support.

Plugins

It has full access to the WordPress engine, so it can do some amazing things.

Free-Market of Features

12 Hello Dolly

145 OpenID

10. cforms

9. wp-polls

8. Wordpress Automatic Upgrade

7. wp-cache

6. wp-db backup

5.**MISSED IT**

4. next-gen gallery

2. all-in seo

1. Akismet

4.96 Average number of plugins activated

The Most Plugins

• 1,290 plugins installed
• 526 Active

Better Plugin Stats – Something they want to work on

Themes for 2009

Upgrades

• Community
• Web Hosts
• In-Core

With good interaction and automatic updating ala firefox

Security

2.6.1 Was a non-required upgrade.  The first in a long time.

Plugins – exposure but limited
(most recent security issues have been plugins)
Exposure was under 1%

Multi-Modal

HubPress? (Already registered domain)

BackPress – Still be worked on.  Extracting out the parts that would be useful

BuddyPress (A lot of people raised hands and noted they where interested in using it) – Aiming for release this year

fashion & tattoos  -  Perhaps opensourcing shirt and fashion design using their logo

Crazyhorse!

Year of Themes

• Monotone – A photo blog that customizes theme to photo
• Prolouge – Twitter in a box
• Resume theme
• Realtor themes
• Excited to see what else comes out

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