State of the Word
Mark Jaquith
markjaquith.com
coveredwebservices.com
@markjaquith

Independent
WordPress
Developer

What have
we been up
to?

WordPress 2.7

One-click
WordPress
upgrade

WordPress upgrade FAIL

New admin
interface

Keyboard
shortcuts for
comment
moderation

Reply to
comments
from admin
interface

Threaded
comments

Comment
paging

Consensus:
“we like!”

Over 5.2 million
downloads

Google
Fight!

42
results
“WordPress 2.7 sucks”

485results
“WordPress 2.7 rocks”

User Experience:
a goal, not an
afterthought

Matt Thomas Jane Wells

“ [WordPress] helps me
publish to the point that
the tool actually
disappears from my
perspective ”
— Michael Ashby

You Content

You Content

Stats

How many
WordPress
users?

~13 Million

Air Force
Army
Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)
Coast Guard
Defense Intelligence Agency
Department of Energy
Department of Homeland Security
Department of State
Department of Treasury
Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA)
Marine Corps
Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)
National Geospatial Intelligence Agency
National Reconnaissance O ce
National Security Agency (NSA)
Navy

WordPress 2.8

::yawn::

Widget management

Theme installer

Not that there’s
anything wrong
with that

BuddyPress

Facebook in
a box?

Ning that
you control

BYOTOS

bbPress

The
WordPress
Family

WordPress.tv

WordCamps

WP Community

WP of Tomorrow

Today:
your words,
on the web

Tomorrow:
YOU, on the web

Tumblr?
Yes, but more
than that

“Help! I’ve given
my data to
services I can’t
control and I can’t
get up!”

Closed source platform
Failure / Evil
Time

No dead
ends

Phase One:
Photos

Connect
the silos

Community
and
Marketplace

Free = good
Free = overwhelming

Plugins can
do anything

Plugins can
do anything

We’re
listening

Thanks!
markjaquith.com
coveredwebservices.com
@markjaquith