"State of the Word" at WordCamp Mid-Atlantic, by Mark Jaquith

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

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

We’re listening

Thanks! markjaquith.com coveredwebservices.com @markjaquith

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