The presentation I delivered at the first-ever WordCamp US, in Philadelphia.

1. Word
State of the
P H I L A D E L P H I A , P A • 2 0 1 5

2. Matt Mullenweg
@photomatt
#WCUS

3. THANK YOU TO OUR SPONSORS

4. THANK YOU TO OUR ORGANIZERS

5. Kim Parsell
WordPress docs. Plugin
author. 3.7 Recent Rockstar.
3.9 Contributing Developer.
My contributing streak now
stands at 6 releases. #wpmom
Alex King
An original contributor
to WordPress, web
developer, founder of
Crowd Favorite.

6. LOOKING BACK
Ten Years
of WordCamp

7. August 5, 2006
Photo: Scott Beale

8. Version
2.0

9. July 21, 2007
Photo: Josh Hallett

10. Version
2.1

11. Photo: Scott Beale
August 16, 2008

12. Version
2.6

13. May 30, 2009
Photo: Sean O’Shaughnessy

14. Version
2.7

15. Photo: Sheri Bigelow
May 1, 2010

16. Version
2.9

17. Photo: Aaron Brazell
August 12, 2011

18. Version
3.2

19. August 7, 2012
Photo: Sheri Bigelow

20. Version
3.4

21. July 26, 2013
Photo: Sheri Bigelow

22. Version
3.6

23. October 25, 2014
Photo: Sheri Bigelow

24. Version
4.0

26. 2015
WordCamp Stats

27. In 2015 alone…
34COUNTRIES
21kATTENDEES
89CAMPS

28. 60% for the first time
601ORGANIZERS

29. 1.6kSPEAKERS
2.1kSESSIONS
presented

30. 40kPEOPLE
2.0kEVENTS
attended
Meetups beat it:

31. Technology is at its
best when it brings
people together.

33. Moved from
downloads to activity

34. Adopted Slack

35. WordPress.tv
is now open source

36. Localized plugin &
theme directories

37. All themes & plugins now
support language packs
With community-based translations from
translate.wordpress.org

38. Added over 9,000 plugins in past year
Plugin Directory crossed
one billion downloads

39. 0.2
0.2
0.2
0.3
75% TO GO…
25%of the web runs on WordPress

40. 2015
An exciting year
for WordPress releases

41. TWENTY FIFTEEN
4.1
DINAH
WASHINGTON

42. 4.1
DINAH
WASHINGTON
DISTRACTION-FREE WRITING

43. 4.1
DINAH
WASHINGTON
LANGUAGE SELECTION

44. 4.2
Bud
Powell
PRESS THIS

45. 4.2
Bud
Powell
THEMES IN CUSTOMIZER

46. 4.2
Bud
Powell
EMOJI!
🎉

47. MENUS IN CUSTOMIZER
4.2
billie
holiday

48. 4.2
billie
holiday
SITE ICONS

49. 4.2
billie
holiday
FORMATTING SHORTCUTS

50. John
Blackbourn
4.1
Konstantin
Obenland
4.2
Drew
Jaynes
4.3
2015 RELEASE LEADS

51. A STORY
Addressing Version
Fragmentation

52. Bluehost

53. Over 2M
WordPresses

54. WordPress Versions
80%
20%
Using Latest Using Older

55. For Every Site
Backup
Upgrade
Detect any problems

56. 2.6M Core Updates
Along with Plugins & Themes

57. .006% of updated
sites contacted
support

58. Ongoing support
down 18%
This includes hacked sites.

59. PHP is next.
About 20% done, but harder

60. Auto-update means each new
release is adopted faster than ever.
4.34.24.1

61. 4.4 is right around
the corner
Shipping Tuesday

62. Scott Taylor
4.4 RELEASE LEAD

63. WordPress 4.4

64. Over 2,000
Commits

65. Over 400
Contributors

66. Lots of Little Things
WP_Comment
WP_Term
WP_Network
drastic overhaul of Comment queries
Pretty Permalinks for all Media, attached or not

67. Scaffolding of
REST API

69. REST API
An alternative to XML-RPC
An alternative to admin-ajax
Speak JSON with other websites
Create your own arbitrary endpoints

70. NEW DEFAULT THEME
Twenty Sixteen

74. Responsive
Images

75. Responsive Images
Supply all relevant sizes
Browser picks the best image source
Potentially smaller images on mobile
Automatic retina support

76. Term Meta

77. oEmbed for
WordPress

79. oEmbed for WordPress
Your WordPress site becomes an oEmbed provider
Links to your content become rich previews on other
WordPress sites
Previews contain embed code to use on
non-WordPress sites

81. WordPress 4.4

82. Mike
Schroder
4.5
Dominik
Schilling
4.6
Matt
Mullenweg
4.7
UPCOMING RELEASE LEADS

83. CONTRIBUTORS
802
Thank you!

84. COMMIT ACCESS
2015
2016

85. 205ACCESSIBILITY
TICKETS COMPLETED
80% increase from last year

86. “I cannot believe the goldmine that the
WP-API represents. Having built
hundreds of apps professionally and
managed many high-end clients, there
is no better, simpler, way to create a
mobile stack. Period!
It’s the code equivalent of Graphene!

87. Four
REST Stories

88. Microsoft

89. An ERP Solution
What is Microsoft Dynamics AX?
Increase the speed
of doing business
Deliver amazing
customer experiences
Work smarter with
connected operations
Drive business
performance

90. What’s behind it?

91. Nomadbase

94. StoryCorps

98. Featured on
Google.com

99. BLOG
CMS
APP
PLATFORM

100. WordPress
CMS
BlogE-Commerce

101. Calypso
What would it look like if we created a new
interface to WordPress from scratch?

102. 100%
JavaScript
Leveraging React

104. Social

105. Multi-site

107. Dozens of
PHP-only developers
learned JavaScript.

108. Version 1.0

109. PHP is not
going away.

110. JavaScript &
API-driven interfaces
are the future.

111. An API is
the key of an
open web.

112. COMING SOON
Going SSL
with LetsEncrypt

113. COMING SOON
PHP7

114. We will work on
getting top plugins &
themes available in
every language.

115. INTERFACE
JavaScript
API
PHP

116. Customization
The biggest opportunity for
improving new user experience.

117. WordPress will
reverse the trend of
closed APIs.

118. HOMEWORK ASSIGNMENT:
Learn
JavaScript,
deeply.

119. WORDCAMP US 2016
December 2–4
See you next year!

120. THANK YOU!
A
@photomatt
#WCUS
&Q