WordCamp San Francisco 2009: The State of the Word
by Patrick Havens
Matt Mullenweg
Matt is best known as the founding developer of WordPress, the blogging software he guided from a handful of users to the most widely used open source blog tool. In late 2005 he left CNET to found Automattic, the company behind WordPress.com and Akismet.com. In his spare time he enjoys taking photographs and playing jazz.
Matt Mullenweg, no longer the number 1 Matt at ma.tt, talks about how it’s the 6th anniversary.
The start of WordPress. He created a hack for b2 that ended up getting included. After the lead developer disappeared Matt asked what next. Mike Little contacted him and they used the GPL to expand on b2 and later when the original developer showed back up he gave the fork WordPress his blessing. Matt then went and added some important things and some major revisions.
He then went into his philosophy.
Keep the core simple and let people do whatever they want.
Looking over the numbers they’ve increased a huge amount. Except the amount of spam caught.
Some great quotes that will be posted in failed predictions. Slide Show coming.
WordCamp shirt development has gotten a lot more individual and varied.
WordCamp tattoo shown and gentleman introduced.
Slides of the admin over the years.
How changes caused minor revolutions. But hopefully to something people love.
- Quick Post
- Threaded Comments
- IntenseDebate
- 1 Click Upgrades
- Faster is the focus this time
Year of Themes
Theme Directory – Malware Free – Spam Free
GPL vs. Proprietary
GPL can be sold but also shared
Theme Developers Page – GPL Compliant – coming tomorrow
Thematic and Sandbox Themes are growing in numbers
GPL and Business
Alex King - Crowd Favorite
Primarly WordPress work
8 Full time employees
GPL frameworks
Created for complex CMS sites
WordPress Help Center – on call customization center which is growing
Fastest growing skill on ELance
Huge demand for the skill to
They’ve been busy
P2 – twitter style theme with a lot of power.
BuddyPress – Ability to create a Social Network with WordPress with back end.
Plugins -
3. Twitter plugin
2. Yet another related posts plugin
1. WPtouch
Moderator plugin
Lijit
PicApp
PollDaddy
VideoPress
2.8 is coming!!
2.7 was a huge release and relatively bug free
6 months since release
Widgets have been rewritten
Theme Directory built in
CodePress
Multiple galleries per page
Per page option for plugins
More Language Support
WordPress.tv
Videos open sourced and close captioning community supported.
Create a framework for Themes and Plugins to be translated
Number of WordCamps have exploded and have spread all over.
New iPhone App has been very sucessful and new version coming soon
New Blackberry App to be released soon
I’M Notifications built on top of Jabber in WordPress im.wordpress.com
Kill your Sacred Cows
WordPressMU and WordPress.org is merging.
Canonical Plugins – they are going to try combining forces in plugin development.
Getting Involved
WordPress Rangers
Writers
Artists
Connectors
Organizers
Code Poets
Patients
Leaders
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