Presentation slides on WordPress 3.0 Milestone, Community and Showcase at Malaysia Open Source Conference 2010.

1. WordPress: 3.0 Milestone, Community, Showcase Simon Lim Malaysia Open Source Conference 2010

2. Who? Based in Kuala Lumpur / Jakarta WordPress Consultant @ WP Design Studio Specialization: WordPress Hosting, Optimization, Scaling and Security WordCamp Malaysia 2010 Organizer Email: simon.lim@wpdesignstudio.com LinkedIn: http://my.linkedin.com/in/simonlim88 Twitter: @simonlim88

3. WordPress Overview Fork from b2 Open source (GPL) PHP / MySQL Founder: Matt Mullenweg (USA) and Mike Little (UK) Initial Release: 0.7 on 27th May 2003

4. How It Started The moment when Matt blog about b2 dilemma and Mike leaves a comment on his blog URL: http://ma.tt/2003/01/the-blogging-software-dilemma/#comment-445

5. WordPress.COM vs. WordPress.ORG WordPress.COM: Free/Premium WordPress Hosting services by Automattic Inc. WordPress.ORG: Open source project where the software you can install in your own server. (Free)

6. WordPress 3.0 - Milestone Codename: “Thelonious” Released: 17th June 2010 Download: >1,000,000 download in a week. Download Live Stats: http://wordpress.org/download/counter/

7. WordPress 3.0 - Features Merge between MU (Multi User) and WordPress New default theme – “Twenty Ten” New custom menu management feature Contextual help text section Improved custom post types / custom taxonomies Improved security

8. WordPress 3.0 - Video Please click on the following link to check out the WordPress 3.0 video Source: http://wordpress.tv/2010/06/17/introducing-wordpress-3-0/

9. WordPress Community Support Forum: http://wordpress.org/support/ WordPress Development Blog: http://wpdevel.wordpress.com/ WordPress Bug Reporting/Patching: http://core.trac.wordpress.org/ WordCamp Worldwide http://central.wordcamp.org/

10. WordPress Community - Malaysia First WordCamp Malaysia – 22 May 2010 Monthly/Quarterly WordPress Meetup/Events Official Community Site – in progress WordPress Malaysia Community Group http://groups.google.com/group/wordpress-malaysia-community WordCamp Malaysia Official Site http://wordcamp.my

11. WordPress Showcase Awards Market Share / Trends WordPress Centric Startup WordPress Site Examples

12. Awards 2007: Packt Open Source CMS Award 2009: Best Open Source CMS Award Source: http://www.packtpub.com/article/open-source-cms-award-previous-winners http://www.packtpub.com/award

13. Market Share WordPress has about 8.5 % market share of entire Internet 79% of top million sites with a blog use WordPress Source: http://www.infoworld.com/d/applications/drupal-upgrade-be-slower-more-scalable-239 http://trends.builtwith.com/blog/WordPress

14. Market Share – Trends Source: http://www.google.com/trends?q=wordpress%2C+joomla%2C+drupal&ctab=0&geo=all&date=2010&sort=0

15. WordPress Centric Startup Custom WordPress Development Premium Themes/Plugins Marketplace WordPress Hosting / Scaling Malaysia Based Startup Simply WP – Free/Custom Theme Development Kreative Themes - WordPress Premium Themes ThePremiumPress - BuddyPress Premium Plugins WP Web Host – WordPress Hosting And many more to come!!! Disclosure: The mentioned startups are first WordCamp Malaysia sponsors while Kreative Themes are part of the organizing committee.

16. WordPress Site Examples International Site Techcrunch Mashable Wall Street Journal Magazine Malaysia Site 15Malaysia – community movie project This Week In Asia – podcast Zaid Ibrahim & Co – biggest law firm

17. Questions???

18. Thank You By Simon Lim WordPress Consultant @ WP Design Studio Email: simon.lim@wpdesignstudio.com LinkedIn: http://my.linkedin.com/in/simonlim88 Twitter: @simonlim88