Announcements
- Redesigned WordPress Reader
- Annual Survey
- Watch the State of the Word 2023
State of the Word Recap
- Software Amish barn raising, where thousands of people come together to build something.
- Gutenberg is now in lots of places. Forums are now using Gutenberg and even places that aren’t WordPress are using it – like DayOne web interface and Tumblr. Matt thinks it will be bigger than WordPress.
- Meetups grew. They doubled from 2021. WordCamps – 1 in 2021, 22 in 2022
- WordPress turns 20 in 2023. wp20.wordpress.net for more details
- Learn.wordpress.com – free education
- wordpress.org has a new design
- Lots of enhancements – block themes, styles and variations
- Theme 2023 will be available with the next release
- Phase 2 is complete – you can create an entire site with blocks
- Create blank theme https://wordpress.org/themes/create-blank-theme
- Zen mode – grays out other areas of your site while you are writing
- Patterns allow you to build a site and lock the design, but easy for others to change images, etc.
- 1399 contributors for one of the three releases
- New classifications of plugins, one-man-shop, community plugins, commercial plugins launching this month
- Phase 3 –
- Real-time collaboration.
- Asynchronous collaboration, multi-author, sharing of drafts, inline block commenting.
- Editorial flows, customized goals, complete tasks before publishing, etc.
- Improve post revisions interface and flows, make it block-first.
- Media library updates, full integration with openverse.
- Add missing admin management for blocks, patterns, styles, fonts.
- Admin overhaul and customized user flows, improve list views (posts, pages, comments, etc).
- Introduce admin search and notifications infrastructure.
- Phase 4 – make everything multi-language
- Annual survey – let your voice be heard
- Chat.OpenAI
- “Write a short scene in which Matt, founder of WordPress, describes FSE in a single word”
- Matt, the founder of WordPress, stood on a stage in front of a large crowd of eager developers. He smiled confidently and said, “Full Site Editing in a single word? Transformative.” The crowd erupted in applause as Matt walked off the stage
- WordPress Playground – a virtual browser version of WordPress. Try out a plugin instantly – https://github.com/WordPress/wordpress-playground
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