The future of WordPress

Ciao! Sono Francesca Marano

WordPress 5.3 + 5.4 release coordinator

How does change happen?

Tentative schedule 2020-2021

Coming up next WordPress 5.6 - Mid December 2020

Security matters

It can be done!

Security matters

Speed matters

Accessibility matters

The WP Campus Gutenberg accessibility report

Gutenberg has significant and pervasive accessibility problems […] severe in nature. Organizations which have high risk profiles should consult legal counsel before using it and may want to choose to use the legacy editor instead.

The W3C decision

Accessibility above all

Twenty Twenty-One - The new default theme

What’s next?

Gutenberg (WordPress) phases

The editor

Gutenberg (WordPress) phases

Full Site Editing

Full site editing - concerns

The future of WordPress theme shops

Full site editing - concerns

What it means for old themes

Stay in the loop

Beyond 2020

Gutenberg (WordPress) phases

Collaboration

Gutenberg (WordPress) phases

Multilingual

More than Code

https://make.wordpress.org

Five for the Future

There is more

Hopes and Dreams

What you dream? Hope? Wish?

Marieke van de Rakt

“I would love WordPress to become easier in the future. It is still rather hard for nontechnical people to get started. Also, I think the platform has grown despite its marketing and not because of it. So, in the future of WordPress I would love to have a consistent story, and a consistent strategy”