WEBVTT NOTE This file was generated by Descript 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:03.000 Welcome to a special episode of the WP minute today. 00:00:03.300 --> 00:00:03.990 It's a long one. 00:00:04.050 --> 00:00:07.020 It's a recording of the state of the word 2023. 00:00:07.470 --> 00:00:10.830 Largely featuring Matt Mullenweg out in Madrid, Spain, where a 00:00:10.860 --> 00:00:12.719 collection of the WordPress community. 00:00:13.139 --> 00:00:17.220 Joined him to hear what happened across 2023 and into the 00:00:17.220 --> 00:00:20.040 future of WordPress and beyond. 00:00:20.090 --> 00:00:24.500 another fantastic recap of our beloved open source software. 00:00:25.040 --> 00:00:27.740 Today's episode is brought to you by Omni send. 00:00:27.770 --> 00:00:29.360 Thank our friends at Omni. 00:00:29.360 --> 00:00:32.390 Send one of the world's most popular email and SMS. 00:00:33.083 --> 00:00:34.643 platforms available. 00:00:35.011 --> 00:00:37.321 you like what we do here at the WP minute, 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--> 00:01:18.551 Here we go with state of the word 2023. 00:01:19.869 --> 00:01:21.309 Josepha: Thank you, Rocio, my friend. 00:01:21.319 --> 00:01:25.239 Thank you, everyone, also, for listening to my lovely joke earlier. 00:01:26.979 --> 00:01:28.469 Hola, WordPress España. 00:01:28.879 --> 00:01:31.659 What a time to be involved in WordPress, am I right? 00:01:33.079 --> 00:01:33.099 Applause: Woo! 00:01:34.279 --> 00:01:37.869 Josepha: I'm about to start, pretty soon, my tenth year working with 00:01:37.869 --> 00:01:41.759 this project, and it has been an absolute honor to serve these past 00:01:41.769 --> 00:01:44.189 four years as your executive director. 00:01:44.944 --> 00:01:51.024 You have so much heart and spirit and it is that heart of this community that 00:01:51.024 --> 00:01:56.234 keeps me filled with hope for the future of WordPress and the web and the world. 00:01:57.134 --> 00:02:00.284 Just last month, we, WordPress, wrapped up WordPress 6. 00:02:00.284 --> 00:02:05.414 4, which was run by a group of people from underrepresented genders. 00:02:05.884 --> 00:02:10.104 And as we all collaborated on that project across time zones and boundaries, 00:02:10.444 --> 00:02:15.334 I was reminded just how much the WordPress project comes together to 00:02:15.334 --> 00:02:19.409 ensure not only the freedoms of the open web, But the freedoms of people 00:02:19.409 --> 00:02:21.299 we welcome into our communities. 00:02:21.989 --> 00:02:25.899 It's that feeling of shared responsibility for our project that has brought us 00:02:25.899 --> 00:02:28.439 this far, 20 years into the project. 00:02:28.839 --> 00:02:33.049 And it's about, and it's probably also, what will take us into the next 20 years. 00:02:33.529 --> 00:02:37.679 And so now, my friends, I would like to introduce to the stage WordPress 00:02:37.719 --> 00:02:39.739 Project Co Founder, Matt Mullenweg. 00:02:49.309 --> 00:02:50.079 Matt: Wow. 00:02:53.419 --> 00:02:53.869 Hello. 00:02:54.059 --> 00:02:55.629 Do I need to hold this or will these work? 00:02:55.749 --> 00:02:56.239 Hello, hello. 00:02:56.509 --> 00:02:57.269 Okay, I'll hold this. 00:02:57.819 --> 00:02:58.149 Ah. 00:02:58.624 --> 00:02:59.944 Thank you, Rocio. 00:02:59.944 --> 00:03:00.854 Thank you, Josefa. 00:03:01.364 --> 00:03:02.824 Hola, WordPress España. 00:03:05.364 --> 00:03:07.694 What an amazing time to be involved with WordPress. 00:03:07.694 --> 00:03:10.804 This is also our very first international State of the Word. 00:03:10.814 --> 00:03:13.544 So thank you for starting, perhaps, a new era. 00:03:13.554 --> 00:03:15.304 We'll do more of these around the world in the future. 00:03:15.924 --> 00:03:20.844 Um, uh, should I say, it's gonna be State of the Word, or should 00:03:20.844 --> 00:03:24.564 I say, I'm told this is a joke in Spanish, Estado de la Palabra. 00:03:28.144 --> 00:03:28.404 Applause: little 00:03:28.404 --> 00:03:29.304 Matt: translation, right? 00:03:30.774 --> 00:03:34.554 It's really great to be here in Madrid in such a beautiful venue. 00:03:34.554 --> 00:03:37.534 I hope we can show like what the roof of this looks like. 00:03:37.904 --> 00:03:42.014 And also, it's a great way to honor the spanish community, which has really 00:03:42.014 --> 00:03:45.334 been, you know, leading the world and setting example in amazing word camps. 00:03:45.354 --> 00:03:47.444 I believe the first word camp after covid was here. 00:03:48.004 --> 00:03:51.684 Um, and some of the most war camps ever. 00:03:51.764 --> 00:03:53.304 And was that Sevilla? 00:03:53.304 --> 00:03:53.624 Yeah. 00:03:54.944 --> 00:03:58.264 Um, this is our time to really, first we're going to start 00:03:58.264 --> 00:04:00.764 with sort of celebrating some of the things we did in 2023. 00:04:01.014 --> 00:04:03.694 We're going to move on to a little bit of what's coming next, and we've got 00:04:03.694 --> 00:04:05.454 some fun announcements for you today. 00:04:05.884 --> 00:04:10.104 So, as you may have heard, WordPress turned 20 this year, on May 27th. 00:04:19.234 --> 00:04:19.344 Applause: I 00:04:19.344 --> 00:04:21.034 Matt: feel a little bit like a proud parent. 00:04:21.774 --> 00:04:25.114 And actually we can all feel like a proud parent, because we are all 00:04:25.194 --> 00:04:26.864 part of making WordPress what it is. 00:04:27.274 --> 00:04:30.314 You know, the past two decades, WordPress has evolved from being You 00:04:30.314 --> 00:04:33.434 know, starting very humbly, it's just sort of a journaling or blogging tool. 00:04:33.734 --> 00:04:37.604 It's really being something that can build entire websites and 00:04:37.614 --> 00:04:39.254 be a framework for applications. 00:04:39.344 --> 00:04:41.734 You can build all sorts of things on the APIs. 00:04:42.194 --> 00:04:45.694 And now running over a third of all websites in the world. 00:04:46.314 --> 00:04:49.644 I got a chance to celebrate, uh, first in, this was in Tokyo. 00:04:50.014 --> 00:04:52.104 As you can tell, we had like a really awesome cake. 00:04:52.694 --> 00:04:54.914 But actually there are amazing 20th anniversary 00:04:54.914 --> 00:04:56.844 celebrations all over the world. 00:04:57.274 --> 00:04:59.864 And it turns out We really like cake. 00:05:02.264 --> 00:05:05.364 This was a year as well of us coming together again. 00:05:05.704 --> 00:05:09.964 So this year, there have been 70 WordCamps in 33 countries. 00:05:20.114 --> 00:05:24.664 That was a subset of the 3, 300 gatherings, including about 300 00:05:24.664 --> 00:05:27.464 dedicated to learning, events like WordPress School Days. 00:05:27.834 --> 00:05:30.534 As I mentioned before, bringing future generations into WordPress 00:05:30.544 --> 00:05:32.844 is very important, so things like KidCamps and others. 00:05:33.454 --> 00:05:36.889 To put in perspective the 70 WordCamps for this year, Um, 00:05:36.889 --> 00:05:40.089 obviously in covert we dipped in 2021. 00:05:40.099 --> 00:05:42.929 We only did 19 in 2022. 00:05:43.039 --> 00:05:44.209 We only did 26. 00:05:44.809 --> 00:05:46.949 So we have more than doubled year to year. 00:05:47.229 --> 00:05:49.589 And it's really exciting to see the community coming back. 00:05:51.029 --> 00:05:54.904 Um Although I couldn't be there physically, uh, to WordCamp 00:05:54.924 --> 00:05:56.324 Asia, I'm very, very excited. 00:05:56.324 --> 00:05:57.384 So mark your calendars. 00:05:57.384 --> 00:06:00.874 The next big WordCamp is going to be in Taipei for March 9th. 00:06:01.274 --> 00:06:03.174 The last batch of tickets are on sale. 00:06:03.504 --> 00:06:06.274 And actually, although I've traveled the world, I think I've 00:06:06.274 --> 00:06:09.954 been to over 500 cities, um, I've never really been to Taiwan. 00:06:10.864 --> 00:06:11.904 So this will be my first time there. 00:06:11.904 --> 00:06:13.284 I'm looking forward to exploring the country. 00:06:13.514 --> 00:06:16.214 I think I connected in the airport once, but I don't count that. 00:06:16.224 --> 00:06:19.684 So, this will be my first time to actually get out of the airport, explore 00:06:19.684 --> 00:06:24.124 the amazing food, and, uh, meet some of the, I think, what's the attendees 00:06:24.234 --> 00:06:26.054 registration so far for WordCamp Asia? 00:06:26.604 --> 00:06:27.014 Do we know? 00:06:27.024 --> 00:06:28.624 I think it's, it's, it's coming up there. 00:06:28.634 --> 00:06:30.354 It might even be WordCamp Europe. 00:06:30.354 --> 00:06:33.114 So, around 2000. 00:06:33.114 --> 00:06:33.954 So, I don't know. 00:06:33.974 --> 00:06:35.014 See a little competition. 00:06:37.629 --> 00:06:40.649 Um, but get ready for a little bit of a surprise. 00:06:41.059 --> 00:06:45.089 Um, there were over 2, 500 organizers that made this possible, 00:06:45.389 --> 00:06:49.159 including 1, 600 meetup organizers and 800 WordCamp organizers. 00:06:49.409 --> 00:06:51.009 So thank you so much to all the people. 00:06:59.029 --> 00:07:01.709 And with all things in WordPress, we are always trying to get 00:07:01.709 --> 00:07:02.929 better and always trying to learn. 00:07:03.239 --> 00:07:06.739 So we are right now running a survey for how to make meetups better. 00:07:07.004 --> 00:07:09.744 So for those, for those who don't know, meetups are basically like 00:07:09.754 --> 00:07:13.664 local, typically monthly events that are often sort of the feeder 00:07:13.874 --> 00:07:14.864 to later becoming WordCamps. 00:07:14.914 --> 00:07:19.594 So we got a QR code here, you can scan it or um, you know, there's a, 00:07:19.594 --> 00:07:20.774 there'll be a link to it on wordpress. 00:07:20.774 --> 00:07:21.314 org as well. 00:07:21.614 --> 00:07:24.784 We, we want to learn how to make these better and also create great feedback 00:07:24.784 --> 00:07:26.414 loops to get them going all over. 00:07:28.334 --> 00:07:31.264 Um, it can feel challenging to keep track of so many wordpress. 00:07:31.264 --> 00:07:32.154 org events in the world. 00:07:32.374 --> 00:07:35.424 So one thing we're doing, you may have noticed in WPAdmin on the dashboard, 00:07:35.424 --> 00:07:36.274 there's a nice little widget. 00:07:36.639 --> 00:07:39.139 that shows, like, nearby events, sort of geolocates. 00:07:39.469 --> 00:07:41.289 Uh, we are adding this now to wordpress. 00:07:41.319 --> 00:07:41.729 org. 00:07:42.039 --> 00:07:42.889 So at w. 00:07:43.059 --> 00:07:47.499 org slash meet, there is going to be a sort of thing that'll show you all 00:07:47.499 --> 00:07:49.109 the events happening in your area. 00:07:49.689 --> 00:07:53.229 Um, other things that I've launched, um, is we've relaunched 00:07:53.239 --> 00:07:54.499 how the showcase works. 00:07:54.819 --> 00:07:55.439 So if you go to w. 00:07:55.589 --> 00:08:00.649 org slash showcase, um, it's now a great sort of example of 00:08:00.649 --> 00:08:01.749 what can be done with WordPress. 00:08:02.159 --> 00:08:04.969 I find this is the most effective antidote to when you meet someone 00:08:04.969 --> 00:08:07.119 and they're like Can WordPress scale? 00:08:07.149 --> 00:08:08.279 Is it secure? 00:08:08.529 --> 00:08:09.479 Can it grow? 00:08:09.809 --> 00:08:13.509 Well, it turns out it can scale enough to handle Swifties. 00:08:14.039 --> 00:08:15.319 As we saw the other day. 00:08:15.639 --> 00:08:16.119 We're at time. 00:08:16.319 --> 00:08:18.659 com named Taylor Swift, the person of the year. 00:08:19.139 --> 00:08:22.579 And at their peak they were serving over 100, 000 requests per second. 00:08:24.769 --> 00:08:25.159 I know. 00:08:25.439 --> 00:08:27.549 It's kind of like the new dig effect or slash doc effect. 00:08:28.709 --> 00:08:29.979 When Taylor Swift joins. 00:08:31.434 --> 00:08:32.934 And can it be secure? 00:08:33.304 --> 00:08:34.204 Well, it runs whitehouse. 00:08:34.374 --> 00:08:35.254 gov and nasa. 00:08:35.414 --> 00:08:38.454 gov and many other you know, incredible websites around the world, 00:08:38.454 --> 00:08:41.944 so the answer is yes, and I find examples are the best way to show 00:08:41.944 --> 00:08:43.394 this, so check out the showcase. 00:08:43.674 --> 00:08:46.064 We're also hoping to expand this in the future with more case studies, 00:08:46.294 --> 00:08:49.924 particularly around enterprise WordPress, which is something that, as 00:08:49.924 --> 00:08:55.184 I've mentioned, is very very, uh, it's happening, but we're still fighting 00:08:55.184 --> 00:08:58.584 some perceptions of people who think that open source can't do these things. 00:08:58.634 --> 00:09:00.054 And of course, we know it really can. 00:09:01.234 --> 00:09:04.854 Finally, and we've talked about this before, as our community grows and 00:09:04.854 --> 00:09:08.794 matures, um, we want a way to honor and remember those who are no longer with us. 00:09:09.284 --> 00:09:09.794 So at w. 00:09:09.954 --> 00:09:14.174 org slash remembers, you will see a place where we can honor those WordPress 00:09:14.174 --> 00:09:16.294 community members who are no longer here. 00:09:29.224 --> 00:09:30.974 We have talked about the open verse before. 00:09:31.254 --> 00:09:35.274 For those who aren't familiar, the Openverse is basically a project 00:09:35.284 --> 00:09:39.134 that we took over from the Creative Commons, which aims to index all the 00:09:39.174 --> 00:09:41.364 open license content in the world. 00:09:41.634 --> 00:09:46.104 Uh, including that under Creative Commons license, like CC0, CC, there's 00:09:46.104 --> 00:09:47.664 a variety of Creative Commons licenses. 00:09:48.134 --> 00:09:52.337 Um, this, uh, the Openverse work actually just won an award this year. 00:09:52.337 --> 00:09:56.084 It got the Open Education Award for excellence in open infrastructure. 00:09:56.494 --> 00:09:59.564 Um, we've also been growing our photos directory and everything, so 00:09:59.564 --> 00:10:03.324 basically we're trying to make it Uh, where all the open content on the 00:10:03.324 --> 00:10:06.884 web, just like WordPress has become a repository and a resource for great 00:10:06.884 --> 00:10:08.424 open source code and functionality. 00:10:08.554 --> 00:10:11.434 We want to make it so, uh, other content is available. 00:10:11.574 --> 00:10:13.774 So, congrats to the OpenVerse team on this win. 00:10:20.914 --> 00:10:23.504 Another project that's been super exciting is the Playgrounds. 00:10:23.694 --> 00:10:25.214 Who's played with the Playgrounds? 00:10:25.884 --> 00:10:27.284 We got a good number in this room. 00:10:27.874 --> 00:10:30.724 So who, for those who haven't seen this, it's one of the most mind blowing 00:10:30.734 --> 00:10:33.304 things you'll see, especially if you've been working with web technology. 00:10:33.644 --> 00:10:38.504 So what the playground is, is basically, uh, using Wasm, uh, WebAssembly, 00:10:38.774 --> 00:10:43.654 we can actually found a way to load all of PHP, and like a little web 00:10:43.654 --> 00:10:47.504 server, and a little database, in your browser, in a few seconds. 00:10:48.654 --> 00:10:51.534 So you can visit it, and it basically creates an entire virtual machine. 00:10:51.939 --> 00:10:53.259 On the fly, in your browser. 00:10:53.729 --> 00:10:57.619 Um, this allows for a lot of fun experimentation. 00:10:57.649 --> 00:11:00.699 You know, when we did contributor days and other things in the past, a big 00:11:00.699 --> 00:11:03.539 challenge was always like, getting people's development environments 00:11:03.549 --> 00:11:04.669 set up, all those sorts of things. 00:11:04.669 --> 00:11:06.729 Now it can happen literally in seconds. 00:11:06.779 --> 00:11:10.229 And you can do all this learning and development in the browser. 00:11:10.569 --> 00:11:15.009 Um, we have a little demo here, I believe narrated by Adam Zielinski, 00:11:15.009 --> 00:11:17.119 showing some cool stuff with Playgrounds. 00:11:18.719 --> 00:11:20.639 Voiceover playground: The blog editor handbook tutorials now 00:11:20.639 --> 00:11:22.309 provide more than just code snippets. 00:11:22.569 --> 00:11:26.499 They provide actual live examples built with WordPress Playground. 00:11:26.609 --> 00:11:27.549 Like this one here. 00:11:27.899 --> 00:11:31.029 You can now interact with blogs as you learn about them. 00:11:31.409 --> 00:11:32.219 And there's more. 00:11:32.439 --> 00:11:36.039 The upcoming plugin editor blog will enable interacting with the 00:11:36.069 --> 00:11:38.589 code directly in the tutorial. 00:11:39.809 --> 00:11:42.439 And here are the latest features in Playground. 00:11:43.229 --> 00:11:45.759 You can store your Playground in the browser and retain 00:11:45.759 --> 00:11:47.249 it beyond a page refresh. 00:11:48.019 --> 00:11:51.009 You can load more PHP extensions, like libxml. 00:11:51.009 --> 00:11:56.229 You can even give Playground access to network to interact with APIs or simply 00:11:56.229 --> 00:11:58.309 to browse plugins indirectly in WP Admin. 00:11:58.799 --> 00:12:01.739 And you can also stay ahead of the latest WordPress features with the 00:12:01.739 --> 00:12:03.829 latest nightly WordPress version preview. 00:12:04.569 --> 00:12:08.619 Furthermore, you can even test specific upcoming features with a 00:12:08.619 --> 00:12:10.289 new WordPress pull request previewer. 00:12:12.909 --> 00:12:17.269 Just paste a link to a WordPress PR of your choice to try it in Playground. 00:12:17.529 --> 00:12:18.579 And by the way, previews. 00:12:18.859 --> 00:12:23.169 WordPress plugins, like this interactive code log, may now opt in to a live preview 00:12:23.169 --> 00:12:25.269 feature in the WordPress plugin directory. 00:12:25.499 --> 00:12:28.669 With a single click, you get a pre configured Playground where you can 00:12:28.669 --> 00:12:30.759 try the plugin out without risk. 00:12:34.229 --> 00:12:37.269 You can also use Playground to develop WordPress plugins. 00:12:37.579 --> 00:12:40.649 First, synchronize Playground with your local directory. 00:12:40.974 --> 00:12:45.084 Then, update the code on your computer, like here, we're updating 00:12:45.084 --> 00:12:47.464 the admin color from navy to purple. 00:12:48.014 --> 00:12:51.284 Finally, sync your changes back into Playground. 00:12:51.824 --> 00:12:52.544 And voila! 00:12:52.734 --> 00:12:55.504 The admin is now purple without any local setup. 00:12:55.874 --> 00:12:57.074 Want to learn more? 00:12:57.234 --> 00:12:58.304 Visit developer. 00:12:58.304 --> 00:12:58.864 wordpress. 00:12:58.904 --> 00:13:00.404 org slash Playground. 00:13:08.824 --> 00:13:10.664 Matt: That will never cease to amaze me. 00:13:11.334 --> 00:13:13.774 Think of how much you used to have to set up with, like, running, like, 00:13:13.784 --> 00:13:18.394 things locally on your On your device or servers, I mean, it just blows me away. 00:13:19.794 --> 00:13:24.484 Um, in the past six months, almost 57, 000 of you have worked with this tool, and the 00:13:24.484 --> 00:13:26.024 buzz that's growing is really phenomenal. 00:13:26.324 --> 00:13:29.254 So, there's been great enthusiasm at WordCamp Europe. 00:13:29.414 --> 00:13:32.114 We also got to display this at Google, the Google I. 00:13:32.114 --> 00:13:32.224 O. 00:13:32.224 --> 00:13:33.894 conference in California. 00:13:34.274 --> 00:13:36.874 And we're hoping to see a tenfold increase in users in the next year, 00:13:36.874 --> 00:13:38.184 especially with this live preview. 00:13:39.524 --> 00:13:41.724 It's really a testament to the spirit of innovation in the 00:13:41.724 --> 00:13:46.324 community, and the closest thing to sci fi I think we WordPress. 00:13:47.154 --> 00:13:50.614 Another fun achievement of this year is the 2024 theme. 00:13:51.064 --> 00:13:54.914 So 2023 saw the finalization of phase 2 of the Gutenberg roadmap, 00:13:54.934 --> 00:13:56.214 which is around customization. 00:13:56.674 --> 00:14:00.194 And our most recent default theme, 2024, is a great example of everything 00:14:00.194 --> 00:14:01.034 that's been accomplished there. 00:14:01.484 --> 00:14:04.954 It's got over 35 patterns built in, and it really can meet the needs of 00:14:04.954 --> 00:14:07.584 anyone, whether you're an artist, an entrepreneur, or a prolific writer. 00:14:07.969 --> 00:14:10.139 It's kind of the first to take advantage of the full powers of 00:14:10.139 --> 00:14:11.459 Gutenberg and show what can be done. 00:14:11.769 --> 00:14:14.719 So I also hope that this inspires many, many other themes being built. 00:14:15.319 --> 00:14:17.809 If you haven't tried it yet, set up a demo site. 00:14:17.849 --> 00:14:18.899 Maybe using Playground. 00:14:19.749 --> 00:14:21.329 And check out the 2024 theme. 00:14:21.339 --> 00:14:23.009 It is quite, quite powerful. 00:14:23.509 --> 00:14:25.439 It's been getting some great reviews so far. 00:14:26.089 --> 00:14:29.289 Um, Jamie Marsland said it's the best default WordPress theme we've ever seen. 00:14:29.769 --> 00:14:34.889 Ray Marais says, 2024 are a match made in heaven. 00:14:35.599 --> 00:14:39.919 And Brian Con Cordes says, personally, I think this theme is a game changer. 00:14:40.159 --> 00:14:42.439 So, please check it out if you have not already. 00:14:43.359 --> 00:14:44.639 Here's a little short demo of it. 00:14:49.089 --> 00:14:52.629 So, basically what you're seeing here, everything, all of these 00:14:52.639 --> 00:14:55.199 screenshots were made with default 2024. 00:14:56.139 --> 00:14:58.109 And just editing through the site editor. 00:14:59.449 --> 00:15:02.629 You can see you can make portfolios, you can make business sites. 00:15:03.139 --> 00:15:06.299 Literally everything you're seeing here is, this is a great sort of like gallery. 00:15:06.509 --> 00:15:08.099 Everything you're seeing is being done with Gutenberg. 00:15:11.349 --> 00:15:12.639 That was a little blog going by. 00:15:20.809 --> 00:15:21.259 Look at that. 00:15:22.249 --> 00:15:23.249 All of that now, built in. 00:15:30.739 --> 00:15:34.909 We have 1339 new contributors to WordPress this year. 00:15:40.359 --> 00:15:42.049 That is five better than being leet. 00:15:42.759 --> 00:15:43.659 Or two better, right? 00:15:43.749 --> 00:15:44.929 One, three, three, seven? 00:15:46.689 --> 00:15:48.769 To remind you of the four phases of Gutenberg. 00:15:48.819 --> 00:15:50.529 The first phase was around editing. 00:15:50.539 --> 00:15:52.389 The second phase was customization. 00:15:52.669 --> 00:15:55.439 We're currently working on phase three, which is collaboration. 00:15:55.819 --> 00:15:57.629 And phase four is going to be multilingual. 00:15:58.364 --> 00:16:00.004 Something might be exciting here in 00:16:00.014 --> 00:16:00.344 Applause: Europe. 00:16:05.154 --> 00:16:05.264 I 00:16:05.264 --> 00:16:09.724 Matt: would now like to invite my esteemed colleague and lead architect 00:16:09.724 --> 00:16:13.994 of WordPress, a very influential person in many, many ways, Matias Ventura. 00:16:24.154 --> 00:16:24.924 Matias: Thank you, Matt. 00:16:24.924 --> 00:16:26.048 Good afternoon, everyone. 00:16:26.048 --> 00:16:28.296 It's a pleasure to be here. 00:16:28.296 --> 00:16:30.169 It's like being at home. 00:16:30.169 --> 00:16:35.128 I had thought of doing this part in the Uruguayan Ignoto language, but they 00:16:35.128 --> 00:16:41.151 told me that I didn't understand most of it, and that I would have to do two 00:16:41.151 --> 00:16:45.047 translations from Uruguayan to Spanish, well, Castilian, and then to English. 00:16:45.047 --> 00:16:51.069 So, better than if we showed a video, they were going to say no, that here it 00:16:51.069 --> 00:16:53.549 says video, with a strange tilde there. 00:16:53.549 --> 00:16:56.029 So, anyway, nothing, we continue with English. 00:16:57.219 --> 00:16:58.939 Apologize for that intermission. 00:17:02.259 --> 00:17:06.079 So as Matt was sharing, we got a lot done this year. 00:17:06.329 --> 00:17:11.069 Um, and as we move into this phase three, which is called collaboration, 00:17:11.589 --> 00:17:16.069 Um, I want to touch a bit on the, sort of how we conceive Gutenberg 00:17:16.069 --> 00:17:19.589 as an editor, because it's aiming to do two things extremely well. 00:17:19.939 --> 00:17:22.469 So it's a very challenging, uh, design effort. 00:17:22.959 --> 00:17:29.844 Um, one is as a writing environment, and the other one is as a design tool. 00:17:30.524 --> 00:17:34.194 We've been making a lot of progress on simplifying the writing experience. 00:17:34.524 --> 00:17:38.434 Even though this was technically part of phase one, we continue to 00:17:38.434 --> 00:17:40.284 add, like, writing flow improvements. 00:17:40.354 --> 00:17:43.504 Um, we recently launched this year, uh, footnotes. 00:17:44.144 --> 00:17:47.424 Alguien página de Gutenberg? 00:17:50.054 --> 00:17:52.044 It's a pretty cool feature, the footnotes. 00:17:52.324 --> 00:17:56.604 Um, and the distraction free is also getting like extremely well now. 00:17:58.074 --> 00:18:02.204 We've applied this also to the site editor itself, so you can get like a distraction 00:18:02.214 --> 00:18:04.754 free experience in the design editor. 00:18:06.304 --> 00:18:11.474 So this is the context for what we need to do next, which is to start looking 00:18:11.474 --> 00:18:14.394 into these and workflows environments. 00:18:14.524 --> 00:18:19.014 Uh, we really, we're going to continue to polish these experiences as they are now 00:18:19.014 --> 00:18:21.984 part of the core offering of WordPress. 00:18:23.734 --> 00:18:25.484 So, collaboration and workflows. 00:18:25.784 --> 00:18:30.914 Um, we have a, we don't have a timeline yet for these, but we do have an 00:18:30.924 --> 00:18:35.739 actual working Uh, prototype of real time collaboration in the editor. 00:18:36.239 --> 00:18:39.609 It's a pretty interesting flow because it's doing some peer to peer. 00:18:39.869 --> 00:18:43.429 Um, it's establishing a sync engine into WordPress so you 00:18:43.429 --> 00:18:44.829 can have this side by side. 00:18:45.089 --> 00:18:48.169 And as you're seeing, like, again, you update an image, it gets 00:18:48.169 --> 00:18:51.829 reflected for everyone on the session as soon as it gets updated. 00:18:52.199 --> 00:18:56.299 You can test this today if you install the Gutenberg plugin. 00:18:57.049 --> 00:18:59.679 You need to enable the lib collaboration. 00:18:59.989 --> 00:19:01.299 It's going to be buggy. 00:19:02.054 --> 00:19:06.024 But we want to get as much feedback as possible so that we can figure out, like, 00:19:06.254 --> 00:19:08.584 how viable this, uh, this approach is. 00:19:08.754 --> 00:19:12.634 Uh, so if you can, and there's a, if you go to, uh, github. 00:19:12.904 --> 00:19:16.914 com slash WordPress slash Gutenberg, there's a pinned issue with a lot of the 00:19:16.914 --> 00:19:21.464 sort of next steps that we're looking into for the real time collaboration feature. 00:19:23.034 --> 00:19:26.234 Moving on to some other cool stuff that's coming up. 00:19:26.554 --> 00:19:30.964 Um, we, with the site editor, we really started emphasizing patterns. 00:19:31.384 --> 00:19:35.024 So we want to continue us moving to like in phase three. 00:19:35.024 --> 00:19:39.134 We're doing both collaboration and workflows for the workflows part We want 00:19:39.134 --> 00:19:44.684 to really embrace the idea of patterns as these sort of section elements of 00:19:44.834 --> 00:19:50.724 design To also to answer to a lot of the feedback, which is like blocks are great 00:19:50.884 --> 00:19:55.624 but sometimes they are a bit too granular and people want to have like Again, 00:19:55.684 --> 00:19:59.674 people, freelancers, agencies, enterprise customers, they want to define the design 00:19:59.674 --> 00:20:03.874 units that then users can interact with, but they cannot really like, modify 00:20:03.874 --> 00:20:06.214 or messed up or, uh, deconstruct them. 00:20:06.454 --> 00:20:08.284 So patterns are a crucial tool for that. 00:20:08.284 --> 00:20:11.914 And we're introducing this new mode, like we're calling it like zoom out mode. 00:20:11.944 --> 00:20:15.754 So the ideas that you can step a bit back and see the structure of the side 00:20:15.964 --> 00:20:17.674 and operate at a bit of a higher level. 00:20:19.624 --> 00:20:23.164 So the other thing that, um, we're adding to this is the. 00:20:24.159 --> 00:20:29.449 to swap, um, patterns that are related to a specific semantic category. 00:20:29.449 --> 00:20:33.309 So if you define a hero section, like you'll be able to like swap between 00:20:33.529 --> 00:20:35.069 patterns that are related to that. 00:20:37.289 --> 00:20:40.549 The other thing that we're adding to patterns is the, um, 00:20:40.789 --> 00:20:42.459 who has played with the theme. 00:20:42.469 --> 00:20:43.989 json files? 00:20:45.729 --> 00:20:47.069 Okay, got a few people. 00:20:47.739 --> 00:20:48.409 So theme. 00:20:48.419 --> 00:20:51.039 json can now be applied to specific patterns. 00:20:51.049 --> 00:20:55.569 So you'll be able to have Um, specific style variations that only 00:20:55.569 --> 00:20:58.599 apply to the patterns, so you're not changing your whole site design, 00:20:58.609 --> 00:21:00.689 you're just changing these units. 00:21:00.889 --> 00:21:04.069 And this is one tool that we're giving to developers and agencies 00:21:04.069 --> 00:21:08.879 to ensure that, uh, users can have this, um, sort of some ability to 00:21:08.879 --> 00:21:12.819 customize, but within the boundaries that are established by the creators. 00:21:14.849 --> 00:21:18.439 And there's one thing that I'm really excited about, which is, uh, um, I think 00:21:18.439 --> 00:21:23.084 like with this new thing, Patterns are going to be gaining, like, superpowers. 00:21:23.454 --> 00:21:27.294 Like, so far, patterns have came in two flavors. 00:21:27.614 --> 00:21:32.134 You could either have these reusable pattern blocks, where, like, any 00:21:32.134 --> 00:21:35.684 modification you make to them, they apply across the whole site. 00:21:36.104 --> 00:21:38.874 Or you have these patterns that are sort of a starting point. 00:21:38.934 --> 00:21:40.894 You insert them and then you customize them. 00:21:41.094 --> 00:21:44.274 But once you insert them, you sort of lose that original pattern. 00:21:44.684 --> 00:21:48.804 What we're doing now is to have, like, a sort of hybrid between the two. 00:21:49.154 --> 00:21:53.634 So you'll be able to customise the text of the pattern, so you can 00:21:53.634 --> 00:21:57.984 add it to like a hundred pages, customise the text, but still be 00:21:57.984 --> 00:21:59.974 able to update the design globally. 00:22:00.534 --> 00:22:05.804 So this would allow you to, as was seen in the demo, to offer people the ability 00:22:05.804 --> 00:22:09.314 to have this really powerful thing, which is the ability to, like, again, change 00:22:09.314 --> 00:22:10.854 the content, which is what you want to do. 00:22:11.294 --> 00:22:15.004 And at the same time, keep control of the global design. 00:22:15.384 --> 00:22:21.024 So once you go into editing the pattern And if you modify, like, the color, 00:22:21.024 --> 00:22:25.744 the layout, the structure, that would update and reflect across all the pages. 00:22:26.244 --> 00:22:29.654 So this is, uh, I think it's going to be, like, a really powerful tool 00:22:29.654 --> 00:22:34.094 for developers and the workflows between developers and users. 00:22:44.624 --> 00:22:47.174 Now we're going to get a bit into custom fields. 00:22:48.964 --> 00:22:53.284 This has been the UI for custom fields for years now in WordPress. 00:22:53.284 --> 00:23:01.894 Um, What we're going to have now is the ability to connect blocks to custom fields 00:23:03.144 --> 00:23:05.324 without having to create custom blocks. 00:23:05.524 --> 00:23:09.174 So essentially you can insert a heading or a paragraph and say I want this 00:23:09.174 --> 00:23:11.244 to come from this other custom field. 00:23:11.924 --> 00:23:16.944 So then this becomes the, again it's just a regular core block. 00:23:16.974 --> 00:23:20.754 The interactions for the user are extremely intuitive but it's coming 00:23:20.754 --> 00:23:22.124 from this separate data field. 00:23:22.224 --> 00:23:23.984 It's not serialized back to the HTML. 00:23:24.804 --> 00:23:29.184 So this is a way to bridge the worlds between custom fields, which 00:23:29.184 --> 00:23:32.614 are very developer friendly, and blocks, which are very user friendly. 00:23:32.984 --> 00:23:35.864 So we're trying to make these like the best of both worlds. 00:23:45.824 --> 00:23:48.594 I want to talk a little bit about another thing that we're constantly 00:23:48.594 --> 00:23:50.074 doing, which is performance. 00:23:50.614 --> 00:23:55.054 Uh, performance, and when we talk about performance here, it applies in both. 00:23:55.734 --> 00:23:59.654 Uh, in two cases, it's both for the editor itself, so the people, 00:23:59.654 --> 00:24:03.224 the creators that are using the editor, and it's also for visitors. 00:24:03.284 --> 00:24:07.814 Like, we have a responsibility for the people landing on websites, 00:24:07.854 --> 00:24:11.474 that they get something that's both super fast, performant, 00:24:11.484 --> 00:24:13.384 usable, accessible, and so forth. 00:24:13.694 --> 00:24:16.274 So performance was just like those two components. 00:24:16.674 --> 00:24:19.084 So we'll first talk about the editor performance. 00:24:19.504 --> 00:24:22.934 And we have this beautiful dashboard, uh, if you scan the 00:24:22.934 --> 00:24:24.684 code, you can see it, uh, live. 00:24:25.169 --> 00:24:30.199 This tracks, um, the past, sort of like 20 or so commits to Gutenberg. 00:24:30.909 --> 00:24:35.544 And what this is measuring is, uh, How fast are the basic 00:24:35.544 --> 00:24:36.824 operations of the editor? 00:24:36.824 --> 00:24:39.834 Like typing, inserting, hovering blocks, and so forth. 00:24:40.154 --> 00:24:44.794 It's a great sort of feedback loop for everyone that's contributing to Gutenberg, 00:24:44.804 --> 00:24:50.184 especially as we keep adding features that we want the curve of speed to go down. 00:24:50.204 --> 00:24:53.554 So we want to add features while at the same time making things faster. 00:24:54.214 --> 00:24:58.654 And the really cool thing is that over the past few weeks, we're making 00:24:58.654 --> 00:25:00.984 the editor at least twice as fast. 00:25:01.574 --> 00:25:05.964 And hopefully the typing experience might even get like a 3x improvement. 00:25:05.974 --> 00:25:10.194 We still are quite not sure if we're going to get there, but it's looking like this. 00:25:10.234 --> 00:25:15.004 This is the, if you look at the early portion of the graph, that's 6. 00:25:15.004 --> 00:25:15.394 4. 00:25:15.394 --> 00:25:15.604 And 6. 00:25:15.604 --> 00:25:19.804 5 is going to be like a lot significantly faster. 00:25:29.484 --> 00:25:33.254 This also to me, it makes me really proud of everyone that contributes to the 00:25:33.254 --> 00:25:35.554 project that keeps always this at heart. 00:25:35.594 --> 00:25:39.684 Like everyone is so passionate about making This sort of improvements, 00:25:39.734 --> 00:25:42.714 ensuring that like, it's not just new features, but we're also 00:25:42.714 --> 00:25:46.594 like polishing and making things snappier, more usable, and so forth. 00:25:47.684 --> 00:25:51.054 The other part of performance is the frontend performance. 00:25:51.334 --> 00:25:55.274 And we have the, we're going to be working this year on this um, thing 00:25:55.274 --> 00:25:57.154 we're calling the interactivity API. 00:25:57.194 --> 00:25:58.974 And this is purely for the frontend. 00:25:59.719 --> 00:26:02.959 This website is built entirely with blocks. 00:26:03.059 --> 00:26:06.639 It's a block theme, and it's the transitions are instant. 00:26:06.699 --> 00:26:08.009 Even searching is instant. 00:26:08.699 --> 00:26:13.599 But all of these things are real WordPress templates, it's not like just done in 00:26:13.949 --> 00:26:17.319 the, like the permalinks when you go to a single movie and so forth, are 00:26:17.319 --> 00:26:19.429 real, all real WordPress permalinks. 00:26:19.789 --> 00:26:23.839 We want to bring this to the tool set of blogs, so that anyone creating 00:26:23.839 --> 00:26:26.889 a site with blogs is going to be able to get this sort of experience. 00:26:27.239 --> 00:26:31.229 And if you saw in the demo there was also a trailer playing while navigating, 00:26:31.529 --> 00:26:36.134 so you'll be able to get like, again, if you're building, with a podcast, you 00:26:36.134 --> 00:26:40.414 can sort of toggle this on and you don't need to do any sort of headless setup 00:26:40.414 --> 00:26:44.654 or anything, it's just normal WordPress running in the browser like this. 00:26:45.274 --> 00:26:46.584 You can check this one on, 00:26:46.584 --> 00:26:50.654 Applause: if 00:26:54.834 --> 00:26:56.144 Matias: you go to wpmovies. 00:26:56.144 --> 00:26:58.854 dev you can see it in action and play with it a bit. 00:27:01.624 --> 00:27:05.634 So last but certainly not least, we're looking at the admin design. 00:27:06.239 --> 00:27:10.559 And the, we're going to start expanding the design that started 00:27:10.559 --> 00:27:14.589 to develop around the site editor, um, focusing a bit on list views. 00:27:15.019 --> 00:27:19.269 So this is showing, I'm going to resume the video so that you can see it again. 00:27:19.629 --> 00:27:23.584 So we're transitioning from the Are we fine? 00:27:23.614 --> 00:27:24.134 Yes. 00:27:24.544 --> 00:27:26.394 So, list views are really powerful. 00:27:26.394 --> 00:27:28.644 So we want to allow as much customizability and 00:27:28.644 --> 00:27:31.274 extensibility as possible to them. 00:27:31.644 --> 00:27:35.584 So you can see pages as a list view or as grid items and so forth. 00:27:35.824 --> 00:27:37.334 This is going to be highly extensible. 00:27:37.384 --> 00:27:40.934 And the idea is that everyone will be able to shape WordPress 00:27:40.984 --> 00:27:42.454 to like their specific needs. 00:27:42.454 --> 00:27:46.404 If you have a commerce, if you have a, um, if you run a plugin with a 00:27:46.404 --> 00:27:50.834 newsletter, that all the elements in the admin are relevant to each use case. 00:27:51.354 --> 00:27:55.644 So the idea is that each WordPress can be unique, yet familiar to everyone. 00:27:55.684 --> 00:27:57.994 That's sort of the direction that we're going with, with 00:27:57.994 --> 00:27:59.774 the, these design improvements. 00:28:00.094 --> 00:28:05.874 Um, a lot of these elements will need a ton of feedback, a ton of, um, and your 00:28:05.874 --> 00:28:11.024 ideas, suggestions are invaluable, so if you can engage, if you can give that 00:28:11.034 --> 00:28:15.364 wherever in all the places that these are at, in, either in GitHub or on, 00:28:15.769 --> 00:28:19.849 Social media, whatever you want to reach out, like, we'll be hearing about this. 00:28:20.019 --> 00:28:25.029 So, that's it from me, I'm sending it back to Matt, so thank you very much. 00:28:25.029 --> 00:28:26.684 Muchas 00:28:26.684 --> 00:28:28.339 Applause: gracias. 00:28:35.119 --> 00:28:37.209 Matt: You know, Matias mentioned it, but I do want to encourage 00:28:37.209 --> 00:28:38.889 you to go to that wpmovies. 00:28:38.899 --> 00:28:39.819 dev site. 00:28:40.319 --> 00:28:43.759 As you might have noticed, there's been some controversy recently on people 00:28:43.769 --> 00:28:46.089 faking or speeding up demo videos. 00:28:47.064 --> 00:28:47.734 That was real. 00:28:48.804 --> 00:28:50.954 And you can verify yourself in the browser. 00:28:51.114 --> 00:28:52.604 The pages load instantly. 00:28:52.634 --> 00:28:55.994 It is so cool to see sort of a more native headless 00:28:56.004 --> 00:28:58.294 implementation, uh, around Wordpress. 00:28:59.154 --> 00:29:01.294 So, check it out, verify. 00:29:01.294 --> 00:29:02.154 Trust but verify. 00:29:04.564 --> 00:29:08.084 Last year, um, in Porto, at WordCamp Europe, I asked 00:29:08.084 --> 00:29:10.364 you all to learn AI deeply. 00:29:10.854 --> 00:29:16.184 Uh, This was actually before ChatGPT came out, or anything else. 00:29:16.664 --> 00:29:19.884 And this year, the year of 2023, I think we can very, very 00:29:19.884 --> 00:29:21.814 safely say it was a year of AI. 00:29:22.604 --> 00:29:28.254 It's been incredible to see the growth of generative AI, the amazing models like 00:29:28.254 --> 00:29:33.384 GPT 4V, Gemini, Mid Journey, there's so much exciting stuff happening out there. 00:29:33.844 --> 00:29:37.104 Um, I want to show you just a little experiment of something we've been 00:29:37.124 --> 00:29:39.224 playing around with in WordPress itself. 00:29:40.679 --> 00:29:44.239 So this is combining playground and a little bit of AI to use 00:29:44.239 --> 00:29:48.409 natural language to instantiate and interact with playground blueprints. 00:29:48.969 --> 00:29:53.559 So, as you can see what it typed there was, make a woosh site for the shoe shop, 00:29:53.599 --> 00:30:01.419 Ola Madrid, and give it, uh, SEO, give it some e commerce, and call it this. 00:30:01.879 --> 00:30:05.409 And it responded yes, and it created a playground blueprint. 00:30:05.729 --> 00:30:09.179 What playground blueprints are, it's almost just like you might have a. 00:30:09.594 --> 00:30:11.644 You know, files for kubernetes or something else that tell you 00:30:11.644 --> 00:30:12.984 exactly how to configure the site. 00:30:13.394 --> 00:30:18.124 It says How to set it up with plugins, extensions, version of WordPress, 00:30:18.154 --> 00:30:19.584 everything that you just saw earlier. 00:30:19.994 --> 00:30:22.034 So this is, uh, pretty fun. 00:30:22.374 --> 00:30:27.334 I'm excited to see, you know, I feel like generative AI, so far, has already given 00:30:27.334 --> 00:30:30.194 superpowers to everyday people and users. 00:30:30.494 --> 00:30:33.704 Um, if you're a developer, please check out Copilot and other things. 00:30:34.084 --> 00:30:38.444 Um, if you're a user who wants to be more creative, like, play with these things. 00:30:38.724 --> 00:30:42.004 It's kind of like, uh, I love the democratization of technology, 00:30:42.004 --> 00:30:45.009 where This is very much the vision of WordPress to democratize 00:30:45.009 --> 00:30:46.339 publishing, like what does that mean? 00:30:46.349 --> 00:30:49.809 It means we take things that used to require developers or advanced 00:30:49.809 --> 00:30:52.329 technical knowledge to do and try to make it accessible to everyone. 00:30:52.449 --> 00:30:54.239 And I feel like that's what these tools are really doing. 00:30:55.469 --> 00:30:59.289 Uh, I'm very excited now to see if, because WordPress is still 00:30:59.289 --> 00:31:02.719 a power tool, if we can create more conversational interfaces 00:31:02.919 --> 00:31:03.909 to some of the things that we do. 00:31:04.339 --> 00:31:07.449 And I'm particularly excited for this, when it doesn't just do the thing, 00:31:07.539 --> 00:31:09.029 but actually shows you how it did it. 00:31:09.439 --> 00:31:13.359 Um, we don't have quite all of that yet, but you know the old saying, if you 00:31:13.689 --> 00:31:15.669 give someone a fish, they eat for a day. 00:31:15.899 --> 00:31:19.394 If you teach them how to fish You know, they can eat for the rest of their lives. 00:31:19.844 --> 00:31:22.154 Um, or they have a hobby now. 00:31:23.944 --> 00:31:24.354 I don't know. 00:31:24.674 --> 00:31:26.984 When I go fishing, it's more fishing, not as much catching. 00:31:28.044 --> 00:31:32.584 But the, um, very much so, I would love for future versions of this, 00:31:32.584 --> 00:31:33.724 whether it's developed on WordPress. 00:31:33.834 --> 00:31:37.084 org or by anyone else, to not just do the thing, not just make the site. 00:31:37.494 --> 00:31:40.094 But actually maybe walk people through what they're doing. 00:31:40.284 --> 00:31:41.764 Hey, I'm loading the settings page. 00:31:41.794 --> 00:31:42.564 I'm putting this in. 00:31:42.874 --> 00:31:43.914 Here's how I'm creating blocks. 00:31:43.954 --> 00:31:46.154 I think there's very, very exciting things you can do. 00:31:46.524 --> 00:31:50.174 Um, the thing that if I had to say what I'm most excited about with AI is that 00:31:50.174 --> 00:31:55.199 we will all have access to essentially like a personalized tutor available 24 7. 00:31:55.389 --> 00:32:00.339 So, imagine that, throughout history, that's been inaccessible, but now, in 00:32:00.339 --> 00:32:04.379 any language, 24 hours a day, we can have a very, very smart assistant, if 00:32:04.389 --> 00:32:06.359 you will, to teach us whatever we want. 00:32:06.679 --> 00:32:10.459 It means that our growth and development will only be limited by our curiosity. 00:32:10.839 --> 00:32:12.729 And I think that's been one of the most amazing things about 00:32:12.729 --> 00:32:15.459 the internet so far, and I cannot wait to see where this goes next. 00:32:15.869 --> 00:32:20.929 So, please keep learning AI deeply, and also have AI teach you stuff. 00:32:20.929 --> 00:32:23.759 So that's our AI stuff. 00:32:24.669 --> 00:32:26.999 Can't have a presentation in 23 without AI, right? 00:32:28.309 --> 00:32:31.069 But the next thing I'm going to show you is actually what I'm most excited about. 00:32:31.549 --> 00:32:34.719 And this is a little bit of a new direction in 2024 that 00:32:34.719 --> 00:32:35.479 we're going to be taking. 00:32:35.899 --> 00:32:39.459 So, you know, for a long time, six, seven years now, we've 00:32:39.459 --> 00:32:40.939 been on this Gutenberg roadmap. 00:32:40.939 --> 00:32:42.579 The four phases that I talked about earlier. 00:32:43.119 --> 00:32:48.769 And so, uh, plans are great, but you shouldn't just blindly follow a 00:32:48.769 --> 00:32:50.339 plan that you made seven years ago. 00:32:50.679 --> 00:32:53.899 You should be, feel free to modify it or change it. 00:32:54.259 --> 00:32:57.159 Based on changing market conditions or whatever else is going on. 00:32:57.639 --> 00:33:02.919 So, what I'm excited to announce for 2024, as a focus area that we will be doing 00:33:02.929 --> 00:33:07.869 in parallel to Phase 3 of Gutenberg, is what we're calling, uh, Data Liberation. 00:33:09.249 --> 00:33:12.889 So, if you notice a common thread in all of our projects, it's around 00:33:13.069 --> 00:33:16.359 everything we do with open source is around data ownership and freedom. 00:33:17.079 --> 00:33:19.729 In 2024, we want to unlock the web. 00:33:20.414 --> 00:33:23.154 Uh, through a dedicated focus on migration tools. 00:33:23.774 --> 00:33:26.704 Whether you're switching from a different WordPress, a different CMS, 00:33:27.034 --> 00:33:28.414 you know, like a Wix or Squarespace. 00:33:28.584 --> 00:33:30.934 By the way, Wix does not even offer export right now. 00:33:31.354 --> 00:33:34.654 Or, if you're just moving between WordPresses, which is a lot 00:33:34.654 --> 00:33:35.814 harder than it should be, right? 00:33:36.264 --> 00:33:40.464 Like, we offer an export format, WXR, but it doesn't bring over plugins 00:33:40.464 --> 00:33:44.294 or images and moving WordPress, you know, migrating from a staging 00:33:44.294 --> 00:33:47.564 site to a main or migrating between hosts is very, very difficult today. 00:33:47.884 --> 00:33:51.794 Um, so we want to make sort of first party community plugins, tools, and 00:33:51.794 --> 00:33:53.594 workflows available on WordPress. 00:33:53.594 --> 00:33:55.234 org that are going to assist with this. 00:33:55.684 --> 00:33:59.794 I want it to be seamless, straightforward, and as zero friction as possible. 00:34:00.594 --> 00:34:04.404 So, what we want to do is unlock the digital barriers. 00:34:04.714 --> 00:34:08.229 Um, I think what has happened You know, in mobile we've seen this 00:34:08.239 --> 00:34:10.219 since 2008, the advent of the iPhone. 00:34:10.469 --> 00:34:14.249 Is mobile platforms were a lot more locked down than desktop or the web were. 00:34:14.849 --> 00:34:19.069 Um, the same thing is that the new breed of CMSs, particularly the ones that have 00:34:19.069 --> 00:34:23.429 become popular in the past 10 years, really do a lot, a lot to lock you in. 00:34:23.749 --> 00:34:26.669 Whether that's through the payment providers, not allowing you to 00:34:26.669 --> 00:34:30.119 export your subscribers, they create this sort of subtle friction, 00:34:30.419 --> 00:34:34.239 which, uh, again, I think decreases the amount of freedom on the web. 00:34:35.509 --> 00:34:38.529 So, we're going to work on one click migrations between all of these. 00:34:38.819 --> 00:34:43.109 Um, we're going to do a lot to focus on the export format for WordPress. 00:34:43.749 --> 00:34:46.179 Finally, we're going to keep working on copy and paste. 00:34:46.459 --> 00:34:49.359 You may have noticed this, but Gutenberg is actually one of the 00:34:49.369 --> 00:34:51.279 best places to copy and paste from. 00:34:51.669 --> 00:34:57.259 Um, Super nerds in the audience will know that when you have rich text, 00:34:57.479 --> 00:35:00.129 when you copy and paste from certain other webpages or applications, 00:35:00.339 --> 00:35:02.029 it goes very, very, very wrong. 00:35:02.319 --> 00:35:04.779 So we've been doing a lot of work, doing even things like sideloading 00:35:04.799 --> 00:35:06.669 images on demand to bring that in. 00:35:07.559 --> 00:35:10.909 These solutions are going to be available at wordpress. 00:35:10.909 --> 00:35:14.379 org slash and slash whatever the thing is. 00:35:14.764 --> 00:35:19.344 So, as these projects boot up, there might be a slash and slash 00:35:19.374 --> 00:35:22.484 Shopify, or slash and slash whatever. 00:35:22.814 --> 00:35:25.184 Um, it could be page builders, it could be anything. 00:35:25.494 --> 00:35:28.314 And we're going to create great migration tools from that to the 00:35:28.314 --> 00:35:30.294 first party things for WordPress. 00:35:31.744 --> 00:35:35.644 Um, but the data deliberation is not just about building the tools, it's 00:35:35.644 --> 00:35:37.634 about cultivating a community ethos. 00:35:38.164 --> 00:35:40.324 So we're setting up a streamlined moderation frameworks. 00:35:40.619 --> 00:35:45.479 So every one of these, uh, sort of migration paths or projects, um, 00:35:45.639 --> 00:35:47.789 well one that's really exciting is they can be done in parallel. 00:35:48.099 --> 00:35:50.689 I've been thinking a lot, especially around 5 for the future, how do we make 00:35:50.689 --> 00:35:52.529 it easier to contribute to WordPress? 00:35:52.919 --> 00:35:55.339 So, 20 of these projects can happen at once. 00:35:55.339 --> 00:35:56.719 They don't need to happen one at a time. 00:35:57.229 --> 00:35:59.749 We're going to give every one of these projects a dedicated Slack channel. 00:36:00.199 --> 00:36:04.389 And, um, they're going to get GitHub repositories on the official WordPress. 00:36:04.389 --> 00:36:04.869 org GitHub. 00:36:05.219 --> 00:36:08.409 So, they will have the best in class tools, very similar to 00:36:08.409 --> 00:36:10.799 what we do to develop WordPress itself, are going to be available 00:36:10.799 --> 00:36:11.959 to every one of these communities. 00:36:12.759 --> 00:36:15.079 You might have noticed as well that there's a little bit of a 00:36:15.079 --> 00:36:17.169 backlog for registering new plugins. 00:36:17.169 --> 00:36:20.959 I believe right now we have a 79 day delay to add things to the directory. 00:36:21.189 --> 00:36:26.159 So we are also ensuring that for every new one of these projects If you apply 00:36:26.159 --> 00:36:30.039 to start one of these, it's going to be reviewed in about one business day. 00:36:31.279 --> 00:36:33.769 So these will be able to start almost immediately. 00:36:33.949 --> 00:36:36.089 So again, if you're thinking about getting involved with WordPress, 00:36:36.589 --> 00:36:39.254 and you've probably done migrations before or written tools for this, 00:36:40.164 --> 00:36:41.424 Come join one of these projects. 00:36:41.484 --> 00:36:43.144 I think it'll be a really exciting way to get involved. 00:36:45.934 --> 00:36:46.124 Thanks. 00:36:53.814 --> 00:36:56.474 This would not be possible without the amazing work of the plugins 00:36:56.474 --> 00:36:57.534 team and the community team. 00:36:58.354 --> 00:37:01.474 We have seen a huge growth in sort of sponsoring companies 00:37:01.474 --> 00:37:02.264 and things around this. 00:37:02.594 --> 00:37:05.934 But, as I mentioned, we are right now very behind with reviewing plugins. 00:37:06.314 --> 00:37:09.604 The plugins team is now accepting applications for new members. 00:37:09.854 --> 00:37:13.374 So if you would like to be part of that group that, you know, keeps the 00:37:13.374 --> 00:37:16.924 plugin directory healthy, thriving, and representing the very best that 00:37:16.924 --> 00:37:18.754 WordPress and its community has to offer. 00:37:19.094 --> 00:37:22.364 Um, you can now, uh, apply to join the plug in review team. 00:37:23.874 --> 00:37:26.644 Alright, it wouldn't be a WordCamp without a little bit of a reveal. 00:37:27.194 --> 00:37:33.164 So, I am happy to announce that WordCamp US is going to be in 00:37:33.164 --> 00:37:34.714 Portland, Oregon this year. 00:37:44.864 --> 00:37:46.944 If you haven't been, Portland is a lot of fun. 00:37:47.724 --> 00:37:50.074 We're actually excited that this is actually going to be, you know, 00:37:50.074 --> 00:37:52.684 with WordCamp US we tried to do it in the same city two years in a row. 00:37:53.039 --> 00:37:56.059 And we are locked in for Portland now for the next two years. 00:37:56.669 --> 00:37:58.979 Also, if you've never been to that part, the West Coast of 00:37:58.979 --> 00:38:02.949 America is beautiful, and Portland is super weird in amazing ways. 00:38:03.809 --> 00:38:05.869 So I'm looking forward to the WordPress community getting 00:38:05.869 --> 00:38:07.609 to explore and experience it. 00:38:09.289 --> 00:38:13.219 Alright, so we're gonna do a little QA, but we also have 00:38:13.219 --> 00:38:15.059 a little bit of an AI twist. 00:38:15.489 --> 00:38:18.759 So, uh, we're gonna have a little announcement here. 00:38:18.979 --> 00:38:20.449 You might recognize the speaker. 00:38:24.264 --> 00:38:29.724 In Portland, Oregon World, Portland, Oregon 00:38:36.039 --> 00:38:38.629 World Camp US in Portland, Oregon. 00:38:39.234 --> 00:38:42.294 Josepha: Join us this year for Word Camp US in Portland, Oregon, 00:38:50.694 --> 00:38:50.934 Applause: So 00:38:51.964 --> 00:38:56.984 Matt: Joseph is amazing and you do speak more than one language, yes or no. 00:38:58.924 --> 00:39:01.034 But that was all actually AI. 00:39:02.154 --> 00:39:03.994 That wasn't her reading a script or anything. 00:39:04.254 --> 00:39:07.974 So, uh, there's some really cool AI tools for translations. 00:39:08.309 --> 00:39:11.019 Now if you spoke those languages literally, you know that it might 00:39:11.019 --> 00:39:13.819 be kind of a literal translation, so it's not perfect yet. 00:39:14.129 --> 00:39:16.309 But one thing we're going to do with the state of the word is we're 00:39:16.309 --> 00:39:19.289 going to run the whole presentation through these online tools. 00:39:19.549 --> 00:39:23.189 So you'll be able to hear me, in my voice, and with my lips moving, 00:39:23.549 --> 00:39:24.939 like I can speak another language. 00:39:25.919 --> 00:39:28.009 Which is going to be kind of fun to experiment with. 00:39:28.339 --> 00:39:31.719 It's imperfect, it's early versions, but I like that we're embracing these 00:39:31.719 --> 00:39:33.139 new tools and having fun with it. 00:39:33.149 --> 00:39:35.629 So, keep an eye out for, you know how many languages we're 00:39:35.629 --> 00:39:36.659 going to translate this into? 00:39:37.439 --> 00:39:39.299 We're going to translate it into four languages, and so it'll be 00:39:39.299 --> 00:39:40.869 posted in the next, uh, couple days. 00:39:40.879 --> 00:39:43.809 So, see you all soon, in a new language.