WordPress

Past, Present, Future

Jane Wells

WordCamp IrelandMarch 6, 2010

Jane Wells, WordPress | Automattic

Master of Suggestion/Cat Herder

t: @janeforshort

e: jane@automattic.com

w: http://jane.wordpress.com

Features

Past: Kubrick

• Rounded corners!

• Custom header

• Sidebar widgets

• Blue!

Present: Twenty Ten

• Custom header

• Custom background

• Multiple widget areas

• Cascading menus

• Sticky posts

• Theme options

• Threaded comments

• i18n

• RTL support

• Editor styling

Past: Custom Fields

Present: Custom Post Types + Custom Taxonomies

• Custom content types• Ex: Products, Listings

Custom post types + taxonomies = CMS

Past: Separate Codebases

WordPress vs. WordPress MU

Present: The Merge

WP + MU = WordPress 3.0

Past: Page Order

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You use a plugin to get around this,

don’t you?

I know I do.

Present: Custom Menus

• Re-order items• Multiple menus• Hierarchical menus

• Based on Woo Custom Nav• Mix pages, categories, links• Exclude items

Past: Bug Fixes

WordPress 0.71

“Over twenty bugs have been smitten from the code.”

Present: Bug Fixes

WordPress 3.0-alpha

283 bugs resolved, 312 to go

Contributors

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Get Involved: Developers

http://wordpress.org/development

http://wpdevel.wordpress.com

irc.freenode.net #wordpress-dev

wp-hackers mailing list

Get Involved: Designers

http://wordpress.org/development

http://make.wordpress.org/ui

irc.freenode.net #wordpress-ui

wp-ui mailing list

Questions?

@janeforshort jane@wordpress.org http://jane.wordpress.com