2. Amanda Giles
“Code is Poetry”

4. Matt Mullenweg
matt.blog • ma.tt • @photomatt
#WCUS

5. Thank you to our sponsors

6. Attribution: dconvertini / Flickr / CC BY-SA 2.0

7. Thank you to our organizers

8. 128
WordCamps
48
countries
11.3% 11.6%
in
2017

9. 39,625
tickets sold
6.8%
WordCamps

10. 1,008
organizers
2,310
speakers
1,091
sponsors
WordCamps
33.9% 3.6%11.3%

11. 4,379
Meetups
73
countries
42.9% 25.9%
in
2017

13. 99,301
attendees
Meetups
64.9%

14. Avg. monthly attendance across
5 months before and after launch
7,192
9,464
4.8 Events Widget
average monthly
attendance
31.6%

15. FOUNDATION

16. Donated $45,000 to

17. Johannesburg Beirut Cape Town Montreal
Attribution: Paul Saad, Omar Chatriwala, Giltert Sopakuwa, barnyz / Flickr / CC BY-NC-ND 2.0

18. Supporting the educational work
of the WordPress Foundation
is now much easier.
wordpressfoundation.org/donate

19. 52bugs resolved
46hackers thanked
39reports rewarded
skansingTOP REPORTER
9 reports
Since May 2017

20. .org

21. es.wordpress.org

22. es.wordpress.org
and 26 more languages!

23. !
633,274,305
plugin downloads
!
47,350
active plugins

24. 1,166
themes
with language pack
2,023
plugins
with language pack
Language Packs

25. Top 10 Plugins
Contact
Form 7
Yoast SEO Akismet Jetpack WordPress
Importer
WooCommerce All In One
SEO Pack
Google XML
Sitemaps
Limit Login
Attempts
TinyMCE
Advanced
15
30
45
60
43
32 36
25
48 46
56
19 21
29

26. New in 2018

27. A series of automated tests run
against every plugin and theme in
the directory.

28. Growth Council

29. First meeting next week
Growth Council

30. 36.28%
WordPress sites
using https
!
From 14% last year

31. A new feature-driven
release schedule
BIG SHIFT

32. Had two great releases.

33. Customization
FOCUS

34. Weston Ruter
4.8 4.9

35. Mel ChoyceWeston Ruter
4.8 4.9

36. Jeff PaulMel ChoyceWeston Ruter
4.8 4.9

37. 4.8
New widgets
and widget
updates

38. 4.8
Rich text
formatting

39. 4.8
Link
boundaries

40. 4.8
Events
widget

41. 4.9
Scheduling site
customization
drafts

42. 4.9
Share live
preview link

43. 4.9
Customization
locking

44. 4.9
Restore
autosaves in
the Customizer

45. 4.9
Better native
code editing

46. 4.9
Better native
code editing

47. 4.8 4.9

48. No default theme this year
Stay on focus

49. API: Room to
improve here still
FOCUS

50. WP-CLI
BONUS FOCUS
make.wordpress.org/cli

51. WP-CLI
4
releases
124
contributors
46
WP-CLI talks
at WordCamps

52. Editor with
Gutenberg
FOCUS

53. Longest-running major feature
development we’ve ever had.

54. “Gutenberg is an effort to simplify
into one elegant concept: blocks.”

55. 11 months since kickoff

56. 4,302
commits
100+
contributors
1,796
issues

57. 18
major iterations

58. Matías Ventura

59. How long?

60. Estimating another few inches on the Gutenbeard.

61. 12
iterations

62. …or about 4 months.

63. 4.9
4.9.1
4.9.2
4.9.3
4.9.4
4.9.5
4.9.6
4.9.7
4.9
In the meantime…

64. What needs to happen?

65. Needs great
documentation.

66. Needs continued
conversations.
77
Meetup
events 20
WordCamp
sessions

67. Needs plugin
developers.

68. Needs you.
GUTENBERGTo test
WE WANT YOU!
ENLIST NOW!
Learn more about testing WordPress: make.wordpress.org/test
We Want You!
TO TEST
Gutenberg
Learn more about testing WordPress: make.wordpress.org/test

69. wordpress.org/gutenberg • github.com/WordPress/gutenberg
Call for testing
Contribute to Gutenberg

70. Forget 280 characters.
Attribution: Scazon / Flickr / CC BY 2.0

71. Let’s have 280 blocks.
Attribution: Scazon / Flickr / CC BY 2.0

72. Classic Editor
wordpress.org/plugins/classic-editor

73. Very different approach this year,
the world didn’t end.

74. Market Share
29%
W3Techs

75. Will keep “lead hat” on
through 2018.

76. Gutenberg-based
site customization
THE NEXT FRONTIER

78. Worth doing a
new default theme.

79. Customization can happen
faster than phase 1.

80. Editing
Customization
Theme

81. Most of the hard stuff
is out of the way.