316 – State of the Word Recap 2016

Announcements Automattic Year in Review Is there a plugin for that? With more than 43,000 plugins in the WordPress repository, it’s hard to find the perfect one. Each week, I will highlight an interesting plugin form the repository. For more great plugins, download my 50 Most Useful Plugins eBook. WP Core Update Cleaner is a plugin automatically removes wp-config-sample.php, readme.html and license files, both default and localized versions, when WordPress is updated. State of the Word Recap 2016 Next year Nashville 115 WordCamps in 2016 up from 89 last year in 41 countries, up from 34 36,000 tickets sold 750 Organizers, 2,056 Speakers, 1,036 Sponsors 3,193 Meetups up from 2,016 in 58 countries up from 38, with 62,500 attendees 150 videos on YouTube back to 2006 The WordPress Foundation will be changing it’s structure a bit. Instead of solely focused on WordCamps, it will now be supporting like minded non-profits like hack the hood and Internet Archive. Also will be running educational workshops in underdeveloped countries and promote hackathons to help build websites for non-profits. BuddyPress and bbPress have been updated Partnering with Hacker1 to provide monetary benefits for notifying WordPress team about security vulnerabilities. GlotPress got updated as well. It’s the software that powers translations WordPress.org got an overhaul / refresh this year. New plugins directory is almost ready. It’s running WordPress now. Found at http://wordpress.org/plugins-wp Plugin usage is up 20% and plugin downloads is up 34% to 1.48 Billion A big reason for this is translations. Went from 5,000 contributors in 2015 to 17,000 this year 2/3rds of the world, speaks one of twelve languages: Chinese, English, Hindu, Arabic, Spanish, Bengali, Russian, Portuguese, French, Japanese, German On release day, WordPress was available in 50 languages Top 10 WordPress plugins are 82% complete in Top 12 Languages Added Language packs which help plugins to be translated more easily Last year, Matt requested us to “Learn Javascript Deeply” Today 28% or WordPress is Javascript, but it was about 28% last year WordPress Growth Council, $320 million will be spent against WordPress in advertising 11.45% HTTPS WordPress.com is 100% on PHP7 On WordPress.org, PHP7 is recommended and HTTPS support Calypso: in the last month 68% of posts were made thru the new interface for WordPress.com sites; with 17% on mobile and 15% in wp-admn Calypso is now plugin aware and you can work with your plugin settings inside of your WordPress app. Starting with plugins that have more than 1 million active installs WordPress 4.4, 4.5, and 4.6 have happened in the last year In the last 5 years, WordPress market share has wen from 13.1% to 27.2% No set releases in 2017: Rest API, the Editor (unify widgets, shortcakes, etc), the Customizer (instant editing) State of the Word 2016 from photomatt View on YourWebsiteEngineer.com