Good morning, everybody!
Glad to see you all fully recovered from the party last night.
A party so good it broke the plumbing.
I don't know what that means...
You guys are full of it. No, I'm kidding.
Just kidding!
I am very proud and honored and privileged to be in front of you this morning
at the 9th WordCamp San Francisco.
(crowd cheering)
(applause)
Eleven years ago,
when WordPress started, co-founded it with Mike Little,
no idea that it would ever be like this
and this is, I think, officially, the largest WordCamp San Francisco we've ever had.
With the three ticket releases selling out same day, each time.
So, you guys were good at clicking that button really fast.
(laughter)
All over the world this year..
Oh! my name is Matt Mullenweg by the way, it's nice to meet you.
(laughter)
All over the world this year
There are now going to be 81 WordCamps in 2014
More than one per week
It's funny because
the first WordCamp we intended to be a template for others
That other people would sort of take it BarCamp style and start making them
but in fact, the first year there was just one WordCamp
and then it really started to pick up, with
the second one I believe coming in Argentina.
San Francisco has always held a special place in my heart though,
for those of your who are WordCamp organizers, you'll appreciate this.
This is the post which started WordCamp.
It wasn't called WordCamp San Francisco, it was just called WordCamp
because there was only one.
But basically a month before,
posted less than a month before,
about three and a half weeks before, I said
We don't have a venue, a schedule...
(laughter)
All we have is a date,
but we'll figure it out between now and then
and "BarCamp-style" was code phrase for last minute,
and we did.
We came together in a very cute venue in San Francisco
called the "Swedish American Music Hall".
That was it, you could see our A/V system was very sophisticated then.
The wire like hanging down going to a little projector
We kinda had to bring everything in, including internet..
and you notice the fan in the corner there?
The A/C system was very sophisticated.
And the number one complaint though, was not about the A/V, about the anything
certainly not about the barbeque, it was very good,
it was about the chairs!
So I hope as you sit in these comfortable chairs,
that you appreciate it.
(laughter)
Over the years, it's really grown.
We've now been in Mission Bay for 7 years.
And there's been lots of sunglasses
lots more sunglasses
(laughter)
See that guy right there with sunglasses?
What is it about WordCamp San Francisco and sunglasses?
We even had Google Glasses!
(laughter)
We've seen the rise and fall of different platforms
We've seen the growth and regression of lead developer's hair...
(laughter)
(applause)
We've gathered around and ate barbeque
or sometimes salad as these odd people are doing.
We've got Comic Sans on stage.
We even have had robots attend.
Luckily this year, we have Gary in person.
I think he's downstairs actually. Hello Gary, downstairs.
But we got him in person.
But all in all, it's been a pretty incredible run.
7 years now at Mission Bay.
So, it's bittersweet, and it's with some sadness
that I tell you that this will be our LAST EVER
event here.
(silence)
We've outgrown it.
I mean, there was not an empty seat in this whole house,
and I expect that downstairs is similarly full.
But I have something new to announce,
something we've been talking about on and off for a few years
and much like the original WordCamp San Francisco
it doesn't entirely have a name, a date, or a place yet.
Next year we're going to do a WordCamp..
let's call it US, just as a placeholder.
So, taking kind of what do in San Francisco
which has the first WordCamp,
the WordCamp before we put cities after the name
and sort of what was pioneered by WordCamp Europe,
try to do an event that brings people from all over the world together
and is a bit bigger.
Again, we're bursting at the seams here.
Literally I'm glad there's no fire inspectors here.
I think we can do something that has a bit more room
for more presentations,
more people,
more exhibitors, more everything!
So, we're going to try this
uh, next year and we'll see how it goes.
And like it says,
name, location, and date to be determined.
One thing that we do every year is talk a little about the survey.
And this year, we had over 33,000 responses
to the survey, which kind of blew me away.
Again we don't really promote it that much
we just put a link at the top of WordPress.org.
One thing that won't be surprising to many of you is that
is very international, about two-thirds, about
actually three-quarters of the survey responses
were from people outside the US.
And 2014 was actually a milestone year
for WordPress in this regard.
I think that we will look back
in the decades to come,
as 2014 the first year
that non-English downloads
surpassed English downloads
for the first time.
(applause)
This makes sense, for those of you who were at Nacin's presentation yesterday.
He talked about how only 10% of the world speaks English, and
only 5% of the world as their first language
so, over time,
I really hope that
the usage of WordPress mirrors that,
and that someday, when we talk about internationalization, it won't just be about
English being translated to other countries
but figuring out how to take plugins
in Chinese
in Russian
in Japanese.
and translate them back to English.
That's the plan at least.
One of the things we also talk about a lot is WordPress usage as a CMS.
In fact, who here uses WordPress as a CMS?
Pretty much everyone.
What you might not know is that's been declining every year.
But what's taken its place?
So it's kinda interesting to see this
because what has started to eat away
at people using WordPress mostly as a CMS,
so they use as a CMS all the time,
or about half the time.
Blog has also been declining.
But people using it as an app framework
is starting to take a share away from that.
So, it is the early days still, but it is starting to pick up,
and I'm going to talk about this more a little bit later.
Other stat I was really excited about is now a full quarter of the people
who answered the survey
make their full time living from WordPress.
That was 7,539 people.
(whistle)
Yeah right?
That represents easily over a billion dollars in economic activity per year.
That's really amazing,
That's bigger than the employee counts
of many of the large internet giants.
So this really blew me away,
and something that I'm extremely proud of.
Also, sort of speaks to our responsibility as a community
That there's now
you know,
something 7-8 times the size of WordCamp San Francisco,
of people who pay their mortgages and feed their families
The good and the bad is pretty much the same.
and send their kids to school with WordPress.
You guys love that it's easy, plugins, and community.
You hate the plugins,
the themes, and the updates.
(laughter)
These are actually the last three years of answers.
Plugins have gotten a little bit better.
But you still love community.
We asked how many sites people built
and actually the survey respondents alone were responsible for
somewhere between half a million and a million sites,
with only I think it was 6% saying that
they had only built one site with WordPress.
So, WordPress is like the Pringles of CMS's,
once you pop you just can't stop.
(laughter)
And also, what I thought was cool was 91% of these sites,
took less than 200 hours to build.
So, a lot of these sites that are being built are much easier
this isn't a platform where
you know,
it costs a hundred grand to install it
and then a hundred grand to upgrade it three years later.
I mean, it's really something you can get out quickly
and stay up to date easily.
Now, those of you know, we also didn't
do a WordCamp in October last year.
We did it in July.
so, since the last WordCamp,
I didn't believe this when I first saw it either,
We've had 5 major releases of WordPress.
(applause)
Oscar, Basie, Parker, Smith, and Benny.
Five major releases, now granted, one was the day after WordCamp.
So, kinda slipped in there,
but we have one more, coming in 4.1.
These releases had a ton of stuff, and
I didn't really appreciate it until I actually went back, so I'd like to do that with you all.
We redid the revisions UI, in 3.6
We introduced a better post locking,
and the Twenty Thirteen Theme.
3.7 we had auto-updates,
which is one of the most significant features we've introduced
in the past four or five years.
Made passwords better, and improved global stuff.
3.8 which I actually personally led, was chock full of things,
We had the Twenty Fourteen theme,
Colour Schemes for the first time,
a new theme browser,
the MP6 redesign,
and for the first time in history we made
WordPress's admin fully responsive.
So it worked on tablets and phones.
(applause)
I was really into that,
I was like hell or high water, we're going to get this in.
3.9 we focused a lot on the WYSIWYG,
we got drag and drop images in there,
previews of the galleries,
and overall just allowing you to edit images
a lot better.
And finally with 4.0, our most recent,
we redid the media library,
had rich embeds,
the new plugin browser, which I'm a huge fan of,
and the improvements to the editor,
which made it, in my opinion, much easier to write long posts.
I've actually been on a personal quest where
I had a 39-day streak,
I posted every single day,
I'm on new one now,
I had like 12 days, yesterday I missed it so
So I'll start again tomorrow.
But, it's kinda neat.
And actually if you run Jetpack or WordPress.com,
you now get a notification for how many days you
have a posting streak for.
Which is kind of a fun feature if any of you
would like to try to beat my 39.
I saw Tony here somewhere, Tony is working
on it as well. He's doing a month of blogging.
(screen cuts out briefly)
There we go!
I was like aww, please not another fire alarm.
(laughter)
You guys are just so hot.
Tore the building up.
Besides myself we had seven release leads.
And actually, a few of them are here in the room.
So, John, Aaron, Mark, Dion, Helen, Mike, Andrew
can you stand up?
There we go. We got Mark there, there's Aaron,
Oh, Helen right over there!
(applause)
Being a release lead is VERY difficult,
I'm sure all of these folks can attest.
And it's something that we've even had people do twice
Andy on this list did it twice in this period.
We also have had a variety of new contributors to WordPress
in a variety of ways.
When I say your name, please stand up if you're here.
Rachel and Ryan have been working on the API
Janneke on WYSIWYG,
Eric on media,
Mel on design,
Takashi is now designing TWO primary themes,
and then Weston on customizer,
and finally Kim on docs,
if you're all here please stand up.
Round of applause for y'all.
(crowd cheering)
Weston, I was liking your tweets about the API too,
and the node stuff.
Also finally this year we added 5 new committers
Konstantin, Boone, Gary, Jeremy, and Aaron
They all here?
Put your hands in the air,
wave 'em like you just don't care..
WHOAAA!!!
How are you hiding down there?
(applause)
I can confirm that we're going to let Gary out of the cage soon.
(laughter)
He's been in there for..
also, if you notice this,
We have about half looking left,
half looking right...
And then Andy is just straight on.
Staring right into your soul.
Kim is the only one looking fully forward there.
So I think that means she's the new Andy.
But here, kinda everyone is looking right at the camera.
So maybe there's something there, that's the trick to getting commits.
(laughter)
Update your Gravatar.
All in all, we had 785 contributors over those five releases.
(applause)
Including one that we bamboozled,
into leading another release.
John are you here?
Hey John.
(applause)
John will be leading release version 4.1,
which is actually coming out on December 10th.
So, thank you very much.
Other big thing over the past few years,
is that the usage of WordPress has grown a ton.
We now power over 23% of websites.
(applause)
To put that in perspective,
from 2013-2014, we grew the equivalent of two Drupal market shares.
(laughter)
Activity across the board was up,
plugins were a huge boost,
We had over 6,400 added for a total of 34,000 plugins in the repository.
In activity we reached 1 million commits,
Actually have brought you the millionth commit here
Otto decided to make a Pluginception.
Thought that was a very clever name
We're going to have to talk about that donate link though.
But this was the millionth commit that we had, it was a fun joke.
I love our funny commits, like Helen's song and things like that.
We get some good ones in there.
Themes also were huge
and this is a real testament to the work of the Theme Review Team.
We had over 684 Themes added
Think about that, that's 2 a day
And in terms of theme commits,
we had over 10,000 commits
In fact, a full third of all the commits
to themes in history
happened within the last 12 months
So a round of applause for our Theme Review Team and folks there
(Applause)
We didn't slack on the mobile apps either.
And especially on iOS
We went from 3 releases a year to 8 releases
in the past 12 months
for 16 total across Android and iOS
We focused a lot on these
We've improved the stability, the release cadance
And also we stopped spending so much time in some of the older platforms
There's no longer an official Nokia app
or Blackberry app
or Windows Phone app.
Sorry, both of the Windows Phone users.
(Audience Laughs)
Actually in our stats there's 30 people still running the Nokia one
I don't know who those 30 people are, but...
This is a big deal.
Obviously, I don't think many people would argue
that there are going to be more phones in the future
rather than fewer
In fact, this year another cool milestone,
there are now more mobile phones on Earth than there are human beings
Beginning of the Singularity
The attention we've put into mobile is very, very important
That, I think, will continue to be a very strong theme
Also, finally, following up from last year.
You know, on stage, on this very stage last year
we announced developer.wordpress.org with the code reference
I'm proud to say some time between then and now it launched.
Wasn't that week like we hoped, but now
if you type in developer.wordpress.org it'll redirect you to this
and you can now have a great code reference.
But y'all didn't come to know all that
you came to know what's coming next.
So here, actually, right now here at WordCamp
we have over 100 Meetup and WordCamp organizers
Please stand up if you organize a WordCamp or a Meetup.
Or ideally both
Look around this room.
(Audience applause)
Stay up, stay up, stay up.
Organizing a Meetup is one of the hardest things to do
in terms of contributing to WordPress
Every single month you have gotta come up with new stuff.
It is, I'm sure you can all attest to that, like it's not the easiest job in the World,
but I think it is one of the most impactful.
Because these monthly things that bring the community together
As we saw on the list, community is one of the most important things
So I want to personally thank each and every one of you
I really appreciate it.
(Audience applause)
Obviously, there's, 100 Meetup organizers here
Over 100 rather
They're representing 21 countries
Here at WordCamp San Francisco
International has been a really big theme of both our previous releases
and what's coming.
Now, there's a lot of different ways to think about Internationalization.
Of course there's language, but there's also things like
the Time Zones,
the date formats
and the settings
which right now are kinda a per-site thing
and you set them on install, it's hard to change them later.
Are going to become a lot more personal
So, I think there will be a time in the future when
some of these might even be per user
And we have to tackle all the things that Andy talked about in his presentation
around Internationalization.
About what to do if someone leaves a comment
in Japanese and then I get the comment notification.
I should get that in English
So things like that are really important.
One of the things that I am excited to announce is that
we have been in testing with language packs
for a few of our key plugins: BBPress, BuddyPress, Akismet
We're going to be expanding that in early 2015.
So the promise of language packs,
those of you who are not familiar yet,
the idea that if you're a plugin or theme author
your theme or plugin can both be translated
and also have the description and everything translated into lots of different languages
without you necessarily having to speak those languages
or be a bottleneck for them, is finally coming to fruition
We've been doing a ton of work
This is a lot of behind-the-scenes stuff.
But, I think it's going to be one of the most impactful for WordPress' growth
over the next decade
Which is also why I'm excited to finally announce
That we're going to have a fully localized Plugin and Theme directory
on all of the language subdomains and on December 10th
in WordPress 4.1 on the dashboard
(Audience applause)
What this means is that you'll be able to go to your dashboard
Let's say you installed in Spanish
You'll be able to type whatever you're looking for
You'll be able to type "anti-spam" in Spanish.
I don't know how to say that. Does anyone...Spanish?
"Anti-spamo?" I don't think so.
(Laughter)
We'll work on that one.
And you'll be able to get a list of all the plugins that have that available.
And all the descriptions will be translated.
There will be local reviews, there will be local support forums
Basically, everything that you've come to expect
from the English wordpress.org will be available
This is actually really fascinating to me, because if you look at it
One of the amazing reasons that people adopt WordPress today
is the 34,000 Plugins and thousands of Themes
But these don't exist if English is not your primary language for the most part
There's for example, the Plugin Directory doesn't translate descriptions
So you have to -- maybe you can find it and it'll include a language
so it'll work in your locale --- but even the discovery process
is hugely prohibitive to people.
And if WordPress is gonna be a global and truly inclusive,
It means it's not just available to people in English
It means that the other 95% of the world for whom English is not their first language
Is just as important to have an amazing experience.
So, keep an eye out for that.
I think that it will.....
Well, it's kinda interesting now that we're having sort of these anchor WordCamps
You know there'll be one in Europe
One in America
I imagine there'll be ones in Asia and Africa in the future.
Sort of pancontinental
and we'll have these 3 or 4 events per year.
and each one I could see kind of having its own thing.
Meaning, like it's own set of contributors,
own set of core committers,
own set of plugin developers
We have the potential
doing things from the web
for WordPress to be a truly global experience.
Related to all the work we've been doing on
plugins and themes,
I know we have a few plugin and theme authors
here in the audience.
We're finally going to be adding
better stats for y'all.
(applause)
(Ton Ton Ton......)
Maybe not!
Ok there it is!
It's like, maybe we're not?!
This is actually being actively worked on right now.
We've been doing a cleanup of our entire stats system
And actually we've been finding some
pretty interesting data about it.
Which brings us to what I'd like to highlight
as one of the biggest challenges in the WordPress world.
Today and going forward.
This is a pie chart
of the different versions of WordPress.
And as you can see,
Only about 25% is on our latest release 4.0.
Now I should say that this is infinitely better than it was before.
It used to be we basically only get new installs
in a very small percentage of all installs upgrading.
People would basically do one click
and be stuck on it forever.
But still, as you can see there's
I mean, there's a full third that still doesn't have the full mp6 redesign yet.
I feel bad for those people!
(laughter)
So working on this
is one of the most important things
we're gonna be able to do.
And actually, we have a lot of partners
and sponsors to WordCamp San Francisco here
that we're gonna be working with to help us with this
and that's the web post.
As you know, a lot of major web posts
have introduced auto major version upgrades
So meaning that, you know,
you can be on the beach in Jamaica
and even if major release of WordPress comes out,
you will be upgraded when you get back.
This is really, really important 'cos when you think about it,
even the whole concept of the version numbers that we have is a little bit archaic
It kinda goes back to the days of Shrink Wrap Software.
When you login to Facebook or Twitter,
or for that matter,
when you login to, you know, Squarespace
or Wiggio or Wix,
you don't think what version you're using.
Actually I take that back
With Squarespace you do,
but with others you don't!
(laughter)
They don't even really talk about versions
You just get that day's version.
You get October 26th's version of whatever software you're using.
And that is our goal for WordPress as well.
You know, as you saw updates as one of the things that people weren't happy about
Our vision is to have kinda like Chrome.
You know, where you just login
and just in the background it silently
All updated, all your plugins work,
everything works, nothing breaks.
And the host have been the pioneers of this.
So already I know for a fact
GoDaddy, Bluehost and a few others
have been autoupgrading people.
We're gonna start another way of better stats
Start working with lists with these folks.
And so here are the sites
that are on older versions
Can you use your support resources?
Or your direct contact you have over these customers?
to help them get on with the latest and greatest
Benefits everyone.
Benefits WordPress.
because they're seeing all the new cool stuff
we've been working on.
Even if it's the platform
because they're not comparing
a 4-year old version of WordPress
to today's version of Squarespace.
Benefits the host because these old versions
are ticking time bombs.
You know,
You don't update software on the internet
pretty soon something will happen to it.
It will get hacked,
the plugin will get out of date, something like that.
And so these hosts being on the latest and greatest versions
is that, I think in the long term lower their support
and things overall
because... Does anyone know who's ever had a WordPress site hacked here?
Yeah.
It's a pain, isn't it?
And in fact, to be honest,
if you're not pretty savvy,
you're not gonna be able to clean it up in way you won't get reinfected.
I mean, these guys... Hackers they sneak in our...
They sneak in, you know,
backdoors, they put things in hidden files,
they're very sneaky about how they put things there,
so you might think that you've updated the major sites that curing it.
Still... there's a problem there.
You really need systems level access,
and maybe a little command line to do that right.
The other thing that's been pretty notable about WordPress in the past
is our relationship with PHP.
Some might call it controversial at times,
most notably we've decided not there was a go PHP thing that happened.
And we said that
there's so many of our users who are on older versions of PHP
and we're gonna keep supporting those.
And in fact, to this day we support back to the 5.2?
And core WordPress.
And when we look at the stats,
we still have millions of sites
on these older versions of PHP.
But....
and thinking what can we do with the WordPress...
with the broader PHP community
to help make the situation better.
Cos I'm sure just like us not being happy about people being on older versions,
they aren't happy about it either.
We're gonna start using our relationship with hosts
to help get everyone on PHP 5.5 or above.
(applause)
The update system for WordPress
since we're PHP and MySQL versions using
so we're able to use this to...
Again
Hosts with lists
Maybe they don't even remember that there's a server some place
so things like that.
Actually I have a dreamhost account
that was still on PHP 5.2
for one of my installs.
These sorts of things, you know,
people just forget about it or they don't notice
or something doesn't get upgraded
or you locked a version of PHP because
you use the setting in the control panel that you forgot about.
Lost of people who...
would be perfectly happy
I mean, WordPress works perfectly as you see with these new versions
And also there's lots of performance increase
in the last few major releases of PHP.
I think we can have a big impact there.
I mean, certainly on 23% of the web
we can start to work...
our partners and the folks who are part of the WordPress ecosystem
to make this better.
So, I'm excited about this
and hopefully it will bring us a bit closer to the broader PHP world.
that I know some of you aren't.
Well the other cool things coming this year
is 2015 theme.
Have you all seen this yet?
It is gorgeous.
A little contrast, there's actually 2 colors on there.
This isn't the best screen for showing these things
Well the exciting thing about 2015 is that it's actually
our 5th year in a row
releasing a new default theme every year.
Which is the number of years
that Kubrick was in core.
(laughter)
We said we're gonna fix that,
we did!
(laughter)
And I think the new default theme program
is actually pretty successful.
Again, our guidelines,
our theme for everyone
is not to create someone that's a perfect teaching theme,
or perfect base theme,
There's things like underscores for that.
But to create something that shows off what WordPress can do
and it's different from the year before.
So this year we're focusing almost on
a book-like typography
and a book-like feel.
So it has a...
you know, kind of a left menu,
you can have a big hire navigation there.
Who knows?
We might even use it for a WordPress book that we put out there.
One of the other things that's been kinda interesting in the past
probably a year or so is the experiments that WordPress has been doing with Git.
in GitHub.
In fact, moving some things like all of the mobile apps
are now developed entirely on GitHub.
Who here uses GitHub by the way?
Well that's all the hands.
Little thing to announce (not a huge thing)
but we're gonna start doing something experimental.
which is looking at the Pull Requests
that come to the official WordPress repository
on Github
and try to integrate this with our normal workflows.
So now, as of today
you'll be able to submit a Pull Request
to WordPress repository
and that will not go into a blackhole.
(applause)
Today plus a few days.
(laughter)
It doesn't say by the end of it either so I got a little excited.
Well these next things I'm really excited about
Sorry.
You might remember last year I was on stage I talked about mp6.
And how one of the things that made the mp6 program successful.
And in fact, we try to use it as a model for other plugin 1st release development we've been doing
Was that the team very tightly communicated.
And we used Skype to do that.
Skype was fantastic, 'cos of a lot of the team dev,
a fast asynchronous channel
with which they could kind of keep up with each other
but a ton of downsides too.
Which I thought about, but are still true.
Skype kinda sucks on mole.
To be perfectly honest.
And this was before the latest redesign they did
that didn't make anything better.
(laughter)
It wasn't archived or
publicly accessible
Like the log wasn't really searchable
They just exist on a few people's hard drives and then they might be gone forever.
So a decade from now
and Siobhan has been working on the next version of the WordPress book
We're gonna have trouble finding that stuff.
That's ok, I'll save them for you.
Actually we have a problem with IRC too.
but one of the things I'm excited to announce
and THIS IS happening as of today.
Is that for the first time
we're gonna experiment in 11 years.
We're not using IRC as our primary communication method.
We're gonna try a little tool from a company here in San Francisco called Slack.
(applause)
Some of you might have not used Slack before
This is what it looks like.
In fact, it supports color schemes
I've got an mp6-looking colors scheme on here.
Comes in kind of a funny-looking eggplant, by default.
But how Slack works is that you can have channels
prefix with hashes kinda like IRC
As of these will all be our channels.
So kind of a....
everyone that's part of the WordPress community will come in there
so instead of having to do like, Wordpress-dev
we can just do
the things on the left.
Sorry, we have a naming scheme
I didn't want to mess it up by saying anything wrong.
Teams can now use this to communicate with each other
and this will all be searchable
and part of the normal thing.
We're doing integrations.
You can see wordpress.org commits are coming to the meta channel.
Also things like
if a ticket is mentioned in Slack,
we'll link that from track.
So there'll be integration between the 2
we'll basically have like a 2-way communication mechanism going between them.
This will be available to every single user of wordpress.org
Normally, Slack you have to be part of a company
or have a company email address.
We've made it so every single person will be able to sign up.
And of my favorite things about it
is that it works on every device.
Yes, I'm excited about that too.
You'll be able to keep up with Wordpress chats
no matter where you are in the world.
Has anyone ever tried to run IRC on their phone?
(laughter)
The core contributors!
You had to, right?
So, starting right now, wait till after the talk
but you can go to chat.wordpress.org
And it'll redirect you to a page
to toss you a little bit about the benefits
We've decided to do this first non-IRC experiment with Slack
As opposed to any of the other number systems out there.
And so the things we're excited about using.
Actually, Automattic's been using Slack
entirely for a few months
and it's been transformative for the company.
(inaudible)
have the pings,
the mobile apps,
the channels,
the search is actually a killer,
it includes animated gifs
(laughter)
(applause)
We need the animated gif of me going... (moving left to right)
(laughter)
Turn off the gifs?
We'll turn that back off.
(laughter)
We should turn off giphy, though.
It also has a number of commands.
One of which is the giphy command
So you can type giphy and then search string
and it will pull in whatever comes, "I'm feeling lucky for gifs"
(laughter)
Which aren't always community-appropriate.
So I agree we shouldn't have giphy.
But the ability to have curated
the spoke chosen gifs, I think is important.
(laughter)
So check this out
please, you know, when you go back to Contributor Day
or things like that, login.
I think that you'll be pleasantly surprised
you can use it on the web, so we're not just on a web browser
they have a desktop client that you can download that runs it locally.
There's a beta coming out that allows you to be signed in to multiple teams
And again, run it on your phone.
And it doesn't kill your battery.
Hope to see all of you on Slack very soon.
(applause)
I'm glad you're all so happy, I'm drinking water.
(laughter)
This "say to the word" brought to you by hint.
(laughter)
Just kidding.
Although they would be great to have a sponsor.
One of the other things I ended up talking about a few weeks ago at WordCamp Europe,
that became a little bit surprising and controversial is this "Five for the Future" idea.
Some of you might have seen the blog post.
But basically, the gist of it is,
that for WordPress to remain a sustainable enterprise
a sustainable thing going forward,
5, 10, 20 years from now
I've no doubt that the project will survive.
You can still go download PhpNuke.
Open Source projects never go away.
Only one person knew what PhpNuke was.
(laughter)
But very few thrive even as long as the 11 years that WordPress has already.
and one of the reasons that we have been able to, I think will be the key to the future.
Is that all the participants in the ecosystem put a little bit back into it.
So let's talk about this "Five for the Future" thing
and basically saying that, it can be totally optional,
we're not coercing anyone, we're not guilting anyone
we're not saying that anyone has to do anything
but for organizations who feel like they benefit from the growth of WordPress,
or sort of, they're part of the ecosystem in a way that they grow alongside it
to take 5% of the WordPress resources, whatever they sort of normally spend on that
and put it towards core.
Or community, or meetups, or organizing, or WordCamps, or things like that
Organizing WordCamps.
This has been pretty exciting.
And actually, already 2 companies have publicly announced Gravity,
and one I think I wouldn't see on stage, wpmudev
have announced they're gonna start putting 5% of their resources towards core.
And also today I am proud to announce that Automattic now has 14 people
which is 5% working full-time on WordPress core and community.
(applause)
This slide is too small
There are probably other companies already doing this
that we haven't done on the blog post yet, or not on this list.
And I hope that many, many more will consider going forward.
You can ask any of the folks who currently contribute a lot to WordPress
It's one of those things that not just in karma, but you get back so much more than you put in.
It's about also the members of the ecosystem, not just growing their slice of the pie, but growing the entire pie.
And this is what is gonna take us from 23% to 30%, 40%
or maybe even someday, powering the majority of the internet.
We're not gonna do that with one company.
We're not gonna do that even with a handful of companies.
We're gonna do it like the internet works.
With hundreds of thousands of people coordinating all over the world.
So if you are a part of an organization, that's already doing this, let me know.
And I'll put you in the blog post when we talk about this.
And if you wanna do it, I'm happy to talk to y'all
about the ups and downs, pluses and minuses
and things to think about.
Again, if you're a freelancer you can do this.
5% would be 2 hours a week.
Maybe that's the time it takes to organize a meetup.
And the meetup people are looking at me like, "nope."
(laughter)
10 hours a week?
Well you can also think about... I mean, there's 168 hours in a week
So 5% is close to 8.5? 9 hours?
(laughter)
Ok, let's say 40 in 2 hours...
(laughter)
There's lots of ways you can contribute.
In fact, if you'd like to know how to contribute more,
there is a booth downstairs where you can go to all throughout the day.
You can visit make.wordpress.org online
for those of you watching from the live streams.
Yeah, I forgot to tell you that.
There's hundreds of people tuned into live streams including I think, 15 or 20
other locations with rooms smaller than this
but like this, but they are doing viewing parties.
So, say hello to the world everyone!
(crowd cheering)
But there's lots and lots of ways to contribute.
And no matter what your skill is,
There is something that you could do that would be helpful.
Actually, my path and this whole thing was that,
I discovered a platform called b2, which was the code that WordPress was based on,
and sort of hacking around with it.
And I would ask questions in the forums.
And one of the days when I was going back to asking another question in the forum,
I saw something that I already asked
someone else was asking.
So I figured I'd answer it.
Because then maybe people would help me more, or something.
That started a long, downhill path
to being here today.
But that thrill of contributing
rush of helping other people
is really one of the most rewarding experiences I've had in my entire life.
And one that is still what I ___ around my life today.
So we have a lot of contributors.
Who's a WordPress contributor here?
A contributor, by the way, is a title that no one can give you except yourself.
That means, that you're doing something that you feel like is having an altruistic impact
on the WordPress community.
So I hope that by this time next year,
a lot more of you all have decided to give yourselves that title.
Because you're welcome.
It's all one big happy family
and we have cookies and barbeque.
(laughter)
(applause)
It's been a lot of talk the last few days with the rest API
Who's excited about this?
(crowd cheering)
As you know, there's been a project on wpapi.org
Talked about Brian and Rachel about it already,
but many other people involved.
There's been very exciting work around creating a Json rest style API
for a lot of WordPress.
At the same time on wordpress.com,
there's been a REST API that's been doing a ton of adoption
in terms of different partners which are integrating with WordPress for the first time.
From youtube to path.
New internet services, which previously were so scared of our
xmr, PC stuff
and millions of inpoints and also to different things that they just
wouldn't even do WordPress integrations
even though we're by far the largest place that facebook likes aren't embedded,
and everything else pretty much like every widget on the web.
You look at the stats and WordPress is one user.
Or they get the most distribution at WordPress.
So one of the other things that I want to point out is very important for us to work on this year.
Is that two robots need to fall in love.
(laughter)
In the Version 2 of both these APIs,
(hopefully Version 2)
We need to bring this together.
There's some things that on the hosted side
we'd figured out around sort of multi-plugins things
or authentication, or around the way certain APIs work when you try to recreate all WP Admin
the things that you can do and not do.
Pagination.
That, I think, are really important.
Things that WP API has been very comprehensive in doing
including marrying a lot of the things that been done before in terms of internal APIs
Now, once we have this REST APIs,
There's been a few talks on it already, but think of it almost like, WordPress can become a kernel.
And that you can interface with it in JavaScript, to node,
and python, and almost anything with easy client libraries.
So, the WordPress engine, is app platform usage that we've been talking about for a few years now.
And it's rapidly picking up.
My feeling is that when we get these REST APIs, it's important to build as many things as possible on the plugin phase.
And once we get in the core,
there'll be like an explosion
that things built on top of them.
Can you even imagine a world where the way that we think about themes settings screens
or how plugins work, or how services work
could be totally different.
Rather than trying to shoehorn a lot of things in the custom post types, or something.
Maybe a plugin, actually, just interfaces using these APIs to your different WordPresses.
And gives you a completely
Posting interface.
Like some of the things that maybe Happy Tables or other folks have been trying.
This would be so much more possible
and I think that this is finally the time
I haven't gotten the question recently but I get it sometimes where
when are you gonna allow theming for WP admin? Or things like that.
Which is tough for a bad idea for a number of reasons.
But maybe what we need isn't theming for all of WP admin.
Maybe what we need is a way for a thousand different WP admins bloom.
That anyone in the world can create a sort of, version of the interface and fork each other and
interact with each other.
And that will be able to more rapidly iterate
on what it means to be WordPress.
I've talked for about ____ship.
You guys know about it?
It's the idea that there's a ____ ship, and on its journey, every single board was replaced.
So what point is _____ship?
What is the thing that makes us sort of
semi-logic fashion still the thing that we know as this thing we call ______ ship.
So what's the thing that makes WordPress, WordPress?
Besides you all.
Is it the interface? The php code?
Is it the the database schema?
I think that we can obstruct a lot of these things away
and like I said,
______ when things build on top of it.
And finally one of the things I wanna emphasize most is the continuing importance of Responsive & Mobile.
Anyone seen this picture before?
It's actually pretty cool.
So the one at the top, this is where they're about to announce the new pope.
And you see at once at the top there one that looks like a razor at the bottom right.
And one weird girl turning around.
(laughter)
And then the future, you even have someone taking a picture on the iPad.
Who does that?
(laughter)
It is just a sea of phones.
Like I said, there are now more phones on the planet than human beings.
They're winning!
(laughter)
We need to, you know, cater to them, or they're just gonna replace us.
My phone already has a better memory and everything, better looking screen
More connected.
It's amazing both how fundamentally the idea that we can always be connected.
That we have these sensors that are with us all the time.
And then also, how these have been getting bigger and bigger.
When the very first iPhone came out,
The resolution of the screen on the first iPhone would take up about the size of my thumb
on the 6Plus.
The capacity of these to do more and more things and the richer interfaces
is better than ever.
Who was in Luke's talk yesterday?
We talked not just about being Responsive in terms of the screen size
But about how far it is from your face?
There's ways we can think about this.
That I think, WordPress can actually be the lead on.
If you look in the mobile world, it's all about apps.
Everything's an app.
The mobile web still gets a ton of traffic and in fact, all the stats we see in the mobile web has more traffic than ever.
But applications aren't really being built in it.
This is one area where WordPress cannot just ride the wave of.
But perhaps be the lead.
For the next generation of what comes in mobile.
And Android, and iOS 8.
The web capabilities of these devices are getting better and better.
Android even puts tabs on the browser at equal footing with apps on the task switcher.
This is incredible.
Also the announcement for Android L showed 60 frames per second animation.
In web views.
You're now able to do things as the power of these gets better and better
I think the web comes back.
As the dominant computing platform.
Just like, maybe, in the Windows 3.1 days
One connectivity and power and everything we all used apps.
We all use things like Office.
And they got surplanned by the web.
As computers became more and more powerful.
I think that the same thing is gonna happen on phones.
And that WordPress both as an application platform and as an app itself
is forced, perhaps to lead that.
So I will encourage all of you, when you build a plugin,
when you make a theme, test it on as many devices as possible.
Put it on the tablet, put it on the phone,
Put it on the old phone.
Don't worry about that razor phone.
(laughter)
It's gone.
Don't worry about Blackberry.
But test these things and think about it.
This is one of the ways that again, we can be truly global.
A lot of people forget.
Who knows what the Mission of WordPress is?
What is it?
There you go.
A lot of people forget this.
I did a 7-country, 10-city tour in Asia earlier.
And there's only one or few people in the audience that knew.
These audiences are 200 or 300 people.
They knew that the mission of WordPress was Democratize Publishing.
That means everyone in every language.
WordPress is a community.
This is actually the gravatars of the 785 contributors.
It's a community that regardless of age, religion, creed,
the longest GPL
gender, everything.
People can be part of it. Can be part of this family.
Can be part of this thing that we're building.
And the same regard, we want our software, the things that we built to be accessible to everyone.
Be that from accessibility point of view, a device point of view, or language point of view, everything.
This is the vision of WordPress. It's why we're all here in this room today.
And actually, this year, more than any year in the 11-year history, I'm very excited
on what we're working with all y'all.
Thank you very much! I appreciate it.
(applause)