204 – State of the Word 2014

• State of the Word 2014

  This past weekend, October 25 & 26, WordCamp San Fransisco took place. If you’d like, you can watch Matt Mullenwig’s Keynote replay

State of the Word Overview

• 7th and last at Mission Bay in 2014 – Next year – WordCamp US
• 81 WordCamps in 2014

WordPress Survey

• 33,000+ responses from 179 countries, 3/4 from outside US
• non-english downloads surpassed english downloads for the first time
• 25% of people make their full time living using WordPress (7,539 people)
• 5 major releases in WordPress since the last WCSF (July last year) 3.6, 3.7, 3.8, 3.9, 4.0
  • 3.6: Oscar (Aug 2013) – Revisions UI and Post Locking and Twenty Thirteen theme
  • 3.7: Basie (Oct 2013) – Auto Updates, Better Passwords, Better Global support
  • 3.8: Parker (Dec 2013) – MP6 design, theme browser, color schemes, responsive, Twenty Fourteen theme
  • 3.9: Smith (Apr 2014) – Drag and drop galleries, WYSIWYG editor, better previews
  • 4.0: Benny (Sep 2014) – New Media Library, rich embeds, new plugin browser, enhanced editor
• 5 new commiter access
• 785 Contributors to the 7 releases
• Up from 18.9% to 23.2% of all websites (two drupal market shares)
• 6400 more plugins
• 684 more themes added

What’s to come?

• Better Internationalization
• Better stats for plugins and themes
• Working with hosts to get users updated to PHP 5.5 or higher
• TwentyFifteen is the 5th year that a default theme is released with WordPress, which is the same number of years Kubrick was the default theme
• Pull requests are now on GitHub
• https://make.wordpress.org/chat/ for Slack integration
  -make.wordpress.org – contribute – rush for contributing
• Contributor is a title that you can only give yourself
• Responsive – there are move phones on the planet than humans

Mission of WordPress
The mission is to democratize publishing