At the beginning of the video, Matt goes over a few interesting statistics:<\/p>\n
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- WordPress is 9 years old now<\/li>\n
- In 2006 there was 1 WordCamp<\/li>\n
- In 2011 there were 52 WordCamps<\/li>\n
- In 2012 there have been 31 so far with over 10,000 attendees<\/li>\n
- There are 44 more WordCamps planned for this year, which will add up to a grand total of 75 WordCamps for the year<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
WordPress.org Improvements\/Accomplishments – 3:45<\/strong><\/h4>\n
Plugin headers<\/strong> (slide 8, 9 &10)<\/p>\n
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<\/p>\nFavorites<\/strong> \u2013 If you\u2019re logged in, you can favorite a plugin. WordPress developers are now talking about making your favorites available in the dashboard<\/strong> of your blog, so you could, for example, install all your favorite plugins at once<\/strong> for a new site.<\/p>\n
Support Threads<\/strong> – The highest impact improvement<\/strong> was to make it easier to create forum\/support threads from the plugin pages. Those threads also become tied to the plugin itself. Since instituting this change just three months ago, there have been more forum threads resolved in the last three months than in ALL of 2011<\/strong>.<\/p>\n
Unit Tests<\/strong> \u2013 A system for testing the code.<\/p>\n
SOPA<\/strong> – The fight against the Stop Online Piracy Act<\/a>.<\/p>\n
Going Forward \u2013 7:50<\/strong><\/h4>\n
Plans to Make the Plugin Directory More “Amazon-like”<\/strong><\/p>\n
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- Show how many stars at the different levels of ratings<\/li>\n
- See reviews from people at different levels<\/li>\n
- Make it easier for plugin authors to respond to reviews<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
\nMore International Community Involvement<\/strong> – Plans to bring WordPress to the \u201cinternational\u00a0 community\u201d in a stronger way. The bulk of the growth for WordPress is coming from the international community.<\/p>\nImprovements Since Last Year<\/strong><\/h4>\n
(This was listed in the Going Forward section.)<\/p>\n
New User Experience (NUX)<\/strong>\u00a0 (slide 19, 20, 21) \u2013<\/p>\n
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- User notes about what\u2019s new<\/li>\n
- Tool tips<\/li>\n
- Tweet embedding<\/li>\n
- Media uploads<\/li>\n
- Customizer (customize while looking at your site)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
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<\/p>\nThese improvements brought 44 million downloads (that\u2019s several downloads per second). That 44 million brought the grand total up to about 145 million downloads since WordPress started. Therefore, about one-third of the downloads in the whole history of WordPress were within the last year<\/strong>.<\/p>\n
These download statistics don\u2019t count one-click installs coming from web hosts or one-click upgrades from web hosts.<\/strong><\/p>\n
Version 3.5 Preview (Available on December 5) \u2013 11:00 <\/strong><\/h4>\n
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- Twenty Twelve theme<\/strong> (slide 28)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
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- Full retina support<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
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- New Welcome Screen<\/strong> (slide 31)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
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- New Media Uploaders<\/strong> (slide 33, 34)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
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<\/p>\nLooking Back at Last Year\u2019s Predictions \u2013 17:20<\/strong><\/h4>\n
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- Feature parity between .com and .org \u2013 their solution was Jetpack (which got to 1 million downloads in 13 months and then in the next 4 months doubled the download total to 2 million)<\/li>\n
- Better reading\/consumption and writing<\/li>\n
- Mobile \u2013 just passed 5 million downloads of the mobile apps<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
Preview of New iOS App – 21:30<\/strong><\/h4>\n
Moving to more of a panels interface, things have been re-done to take advantage of touch gestures (slide 61-70)<\/p>\n
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<\/p>\nUser Survey – 24:15<\/strong><\/h4>\n
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- 27,000 responses (up from 20,000 last year) from 158 countries with two-thirds of the responses coming from outside the U.S.<\/li>\n
- 66% of respondents said they were using WordPress just as a CMS, not as a blog<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
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<\/p>\nClient Types (who are developers working for?)\u00a0 <\/strong>(slide 85)<\/p>\n
A lot of overlap, but this is the basic breakdown (refers to the image above)<\/p>\n
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- Small businesses and individuals \u2013 most (blue circle)<\/li>\n
- Non-profit, government, education \u2013 second most (purple\/red)<\/li>\n
- Large businesses and enterprise \u2013 least (white)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
Average Costs for a WordPress Website<\/strong><\/p>\n
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- Average small business website costs $2,500<\/li>\n
- For non-profit, government, and education, the average cost was $2,000<\/li>\n
- For large business and enterprise, the average site costs $4,200<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
People Working with WordPress<\/strong><\/h4>\n
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- Number of people making a full-time living from WordPress or a large chunk of their living from working with WordPress was 20,000 of the 27,000 respondents. (Last year the number was 13,000 out of 20,000 respondents.)<\/li>\n
- Examples of what some people are doing with WordPress \u00a0\u2013 31:40<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
\nWordPress Now and in the Future<\/strong><\/h4>\n- \n
- WordPress started as a blogging platform. It is now becoming a CMS. And in the future, Matt predicts it will become an app engine \u2013 a framework used for applications.<\/li>\n
- 16.7% of the top million sites use WordPress<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
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What WordPress ISN\u2019T Doing Well \u2013 37:40<\/strong><\/h4>\n
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- Need better media \u2013 need to \u201clook at it as a first-class citizen with WordPress\u201d<\/li>\n
- Need more timely releases \u2013 the average over the last few years has been closer to 2 releases per year (rather than the preferred 3 releases per year)<\/li>\n
- Need more user interface testing<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
\nCommunity Summit \u2013 41:10<\/strong><\/h4>\nThe idea of the Community Summit is to bring people from all parts of the WordPress development team together to talk about things in a more holistic way (not everyone confined to their specialties).<\/p>\n
\nComing for WordPress<\/strong><\/h4>\n- \n
- A lot of the larger web hosts are switching to a system that keeps your WordPress software up to date automatically unless you specifically opt out of automatic upgrades.<\/li>\n
- More simplicity (without being simplistic) \u2013 easier for first-time users<\/li>\n
- Although he doesn\u2019t know how they\u2019re going to do it, he would really like to get \u201creal time editing.\u201d In other words, if two people are editing a post, each can see the other\u2019s cursor, the changes they make, etc., in real time (as is possible in Google Docs).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
The video can be found here<\/a>.<\/p>\n
- New Media Uploaders<\/strong> (slide 33, 34)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
- New Welcome Screen<\/strong> (slide 31)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
- Full retina support<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
- Twenty Twelve theme<\/strong> (slide 28)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n