141 – State of the Word 2013 Recap
Announcements
- Conquer Your Website
- Perfect for WordPress beginners
- Have a fully functioning site when you’ve completed the digital course
Tools / Plugins
Robey ( BeardedFriend.com.au ) shares a plugin this week to easily log into your WordPress site:
LaunchKey
Listener Feedback
New User Registration Spam question from Chiaki (MetalMoment.com ) How do I stop spammers from registering to my WordPress account? Stop Spammer Plugin
141 – State of the Word 2013 Recap
Highligts from the Eighth WordCamp in San Francisco
- 1026 speakers in 12 months
- 1.4 million views on wordpress.tv
- In the last year…
- Released 3.5 and 2012
- wordpress.org adds reviews with threads
- WordPress the book the history on github
- 46 million downloads of WordPress
- 336 themes added (2.3x) as many as last year
- 6758 plugins were added
- WordPress Survey
- 30000 responses from 178 countries
- Reasons to use were community and easy to use
- Wpengine survey 30% had heard of WordPress
- 18.9% of web using WordPress
- Whats Coming Up:
- 3.7 released in oct
- Focus on stability and security
- Password enhancement
- 3800 open trac ticket
- developer.wordpress.org
- MP6 Download Plugin
- Icons not very important enough for 3.6 release
- Plugin took out of core
- Released new release every single Friday
- Don’t test made people want to test
- Usage is oxygen for ideas
- Daily usage is key
- WP 3.8 started in July and will release in December
- Smaller Teams
- Quicker iterations
- Less bottlenecks
- Temporary hooks
- 2014 theme is mostly developed
- More magazine
- Includes sliders
- Never been a better time to get involved
- New release will include plugins
- Model Chrome with auto upgrades
- 3.7 released in oct
Hey Dustin
Thought you would like to know that the LaunchKey link does not appear to be working correctly. It comes up with the following error message:
Error 404 // Page could not be found
Also, thank you for your recent response to my question via email – I have been working through your entire back catalogue starting from Episode One and I’m currently at this episode 141!
Thank you for all your great work Dustin. Looking forward to the upcoming Webinar.
Sep 24, 2013Cheers from a steamy Australia.
MarkLazenby Thanks for the heads up! I’ve got it updated now 😉
Sep 25, 2013