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WordPress starts now, Joseph A.
Hayden chump OSI.
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Josepha: I'm about to start, pretty
soon, my tenth year working with
this project, and it has been an
absolute honor to serve these past
four years as your executive director.
but Titus Ventura, Matt Mullenweg,
and team hosted the state of the
word 2023 in Madrid this week,
delivering a familiar presentation.
We've come to appreciate over the years.
Ventura continues to take the role
of WordPress product lead with his
demonstration of what Gutenberg and
site editing has achieved over the
past year with a nod to the future.
Matias: I want to touch a bit on
the, how we conceive Gutenberg
as an editor, because it's aiming
to do two things extremely well.
So it's a very challenging, design effort.
one is as a writing environment, and
the other one is as a design tool.
We've been making a lot of progress
on simplifying the writing experience.
Even though this was technically
part of phase one, we continue to
add, writing flow improvements.
One standout feature I'm looking
forward to are the enhancements
to custom field compatibility.
As dynamic content
within template editing.
My biggest takeaway.
However, was Matt mullenweg's.
Legs announcement of the
data liberation initiative.
Matt: So, what I'm excited to
announce for 2024, as a focus area
that we will be doing in parallel
to Phase 3 of Gutenberg, is what
we're calling, uh, Data Liberation.
So, if you notice a common thread
in all of our projects, it's around
everything we do with open source is
around data ownership and freedom.
In 2024, we want to unlock the web.
Uh, through a dedicated
focus on migration tools.
Milan wake portrays the project
as a signal to the open web.
And ease of data portability.
A tasteful slate of hand to
see the increased adoption of
WordPress from users, leaving
closed platforms, in my opinion.
Overall, I think it's a positive
direction for the platform as someone
that just had to home cook and migration
workflow from just a simple open
source ghost website to wordpress.com.
I welcome new tools for this use case.
One thing that took me by surprise
plugin authors waiting in lines longer
than TSA checkpoints during the holiday
season could see their plugins reviewed
on wordpress.org in 24 hours or less.
If you're building something for the
data liberation collection of tools.
Matt: You might have noticed as
well that there's a little bit of a
backlog for registering new plugins.
I believe right now we have a 79 day
delay to add things to the directory.
So we are also ensuring that for every
new one of these projects If you apply
to start one of these, it's going to
be reviewed in about one business day.
So these will be able to
start almost immediately.
A good opportunity for those of
you wanting to get into plugin
development and a lump of coal.
For those of you standing in line still.
If you're in listen only mode.
Don't forget to check out the post for
a special Roundup of state of the word.
Roundups.
Here are some of those links right now.
Right here at the WP minute,
we had a recap plus audio
and transcripts of the event.
Courtney Robertson shares her
breakdown on GoDaddy's blog.
Devin Walker has a 10 minute
recap on his YouTube channel.
Sorry, Devin.
It's still too many minutes.
Anonymization volunteered a very
bias recap of the event on WP Tavern.
And wordpress.org has a nice landing
page of state of the word 2023
YouTube embed plus past events.
Check that out.
If you want to see more.
And Yost the volcano was in attendance
and shared his excitement on post status.
Now it's time for those important links
that you don't want to miss this week.
Speaking of Matt Mullenweg, he talked
to tech crunch about what's next for
texts.com under his ownership still
surprises me that reporters don't
fully grasp the.com versus.org still.
One of the longest running podcasts
networks, covering tech announced
cutbacks this week, state of the
enterprise or state of enterprise
WordPress 2023 survey results are out.
Tom McFarland pontificates about
the future of WordPress admin.
Theme team is setting new requirements
for onboarding features in themes.
The Pascal burglar shows off
some advancements he's making
with blocks in media handling.
Video of the week, this week, join me
and code wp.ai, founder James law page.
As we discuss AI's involvement
in WordPress, plus a demo of him
building plugins on his platform.
That's going to air next Thursday.
At 12:00 PM Eastern, make sure you go
to youtube.com/at WP minute, subscribe
to the channel and thumbs up that video.
Cause you'll be able to see that live.
Next week.