089 – 2012 State of the Word Update

Announcements

WordPress Webinar – Sept 7th – Improve Your WordPress Security
WordPress App – 3.1.1 (Stability Improvements)
– 3.1 – Updates
– Major UI Refresh
– All New WordPress.com stats
– Landscape orientation
– Easy to access your site through the app

Listener Feedback

Gene
I am setting up 6 podcasts and am not sure if it will be better to set it up as one wordpress installation with 6 category feeds (for powerpress and digital access pas for subscriptions) or should it be set up as 6 different WordPress installations.

Brian
I am in the process of designing my website and had a quick question I thought you might be able to help me with. I downloaded a premium template from Themeforest. The theme is called The Blog by MNKY. When I try to upload the template, I get the message that says “The uploaded file exceeds the upload_max_filesize directive in php.ini” Please note that while I have my own domain which is hosted through Hostgator, I have been working on developing the website off line through Instant WordPress. I have had no difficuluty uploaded other templates, but this premium one seems to be an issue. I believe I need to change the threshold but am a little unsure on how to do this. Any help you can provide would be much appreciated.

Andrew Blane
– How do I implement deluxe fonts into WordPress and accommodate for IE
– Google Fonts (http://www.google.com/webfonts/)
– Web Safe Fonts

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2012 State of the Word Recap

Recap
– This is the 9th year of WordPress
– In 2006 there was one WordCamp in San Fransisco, in 2012 there will be 75
– WordPress.org – New Favorites coming soon, along with Amazon store reviews

New for 3.5
– twenty twelve themes
– Retina display
– new welcome screens, new media uploads
– Features / Stable and Secure / On Time
– Hosts are starting to upgrade automatically
– December 5th for launch of 3.5

Get Involved Tab
– Core Contributor Handbook
– This is a guide to become a WordPress contributor
– It’s the best way to learn. You can hangout with Google’s top engineers. If you submit a patch to WordPress, engineers will work with you and comment about your code

2011 Predictions
Feature Parity Between .com & .org
– Created Jetpack – 1mil in first 13 months, 2mil in last 4 months
Reading and Writing
– To get people to write more, they need to read more
– When you sign up for WordPress.com it asks what you are interested in (different categories, books, automobiles, sports, etc.)
– Also has a dedicated reader to read blogs on the web or on mobile devices
– 350 million blog posts have been consumed and people are more active, retweet and Facebook posting
Mobile
– 5 million downloads of the mobile apps
– Revamping the interface to look like your WordPress Dashboard
– Dropdown menu on WordPress.org

2012 WordPress Survey – 27,000 people, up from 20,000
– 158 Countries / 2/3 Responses Came from outside US
– 66% of people are using WordPress as a CMS and not a blog
– WordPress Client Types – Small Biz, Non Profit, Gov’t, Edu, and Finally Large Biz
– Small Biz – Ave Cost – $2500, Non-Profit – $2000 – Large Biz – $4200
– 2011 – 13000; 2012 – 20000; who make a living from WordPress
– Maps – ability to create a map with custom post types that you can filter (Washington University)
– 16.7% of the web is using WordPress, up from 14.1%

Future
– More photos
– More timely releases / 3 per year
– More UI features – watch new users and make it easier
– Smart Iteration – 1.0 / 1.0.1
– Updates – more like Chrome – never have to think about what version you are on