The Future of WordPress

A presentation at WordCamp Los Angeles by Francesca Marano

The future of WordPress

The future of WordPress

Ciao! Sono Francesca Marano

Ciao! Sono Francesca Marano

WordPress 5.3 + 5.4 release coordinator

WordPress 5.3 + 5.4 release coordinator

How does change happen?

How does change happen?

Tentative schedule 2020-2021

Tentative schedule 2020-2021

Coming up next WordPress 5.6 - Mid December 2020

Coming up next WordPress 5.6 - Mid December 2020

Security matters

Security matters

It can be done!

It can be done!

Security matters

Security matters

Speed matters

Speed matters

Accessibility matters

Accessibility matters

The WP Campus Gutenberg accessibility report

The WP Campus Gutenberg accessibility report

The WP Campus Gutenberg accessibility report

The WP Campus Gutenberg accessibility report

The W3C decision

The W3C decision

Twenty Twenty-One - The new default theme

Twenty Twenty-One - The new default theme

What’s next?

What’s next?

Gutenberg (WordPress) phases

Gutenberg (WordPress) phases

Gutenberg (WordPress) phases

Gutenberg (WordPress) phases

Full site editing - concerns

Full site editing - concerns

Full site editing - concerns

Full site editing - concerns

Full site editing - concerns

Full site editing - concerns

Stay in the loop

Stay in the loop

Gutenberg (WordPress) phases

Gutenberg (WordPress) phases

Gutenberg (WordPress) phases

Gutenberg (WordPress) phases

More than Code

More than Code

https://make.wordpress.org

https://make.wordpress.org

Five for the Future

Five for the Future

There is more

There is more

Hopes and Dreams

Hopes and Dreams

What you dream? Hope? Wish?

What you dream? Hope? Wish?

Marieke van de Rakt

Marieke van de Rakt

The Future is bright

The Future is bright

Contribute selfishly and generously

Contribute selfishly and generously

Eric S. Reymond, the Cathedral and the Bazaar

Eric S. Reymond, the Cathedral and the Bazaar

Let’s continue the conversation

Let’s continue the conversation

For the next two years, there are at least six WordPress releases scheduled. While some features are yet to be determined, there is already a rich and interesting list of enhancements that are planned.

What does the future have in store for the WordPress industry? If you are part of it, you should be aware of what’s in the pipeline for 2020 and beyond and how it could affect you and your business.

Join me to hear the latest news and plans from the WordPress project.

Resources

The following resources were mentioned during the presentation or are useful additional information.

  • Sponsor Carolina Nymark

    Carolina is a Sweden based developer. She has been part of the WordPress Theme team for over 12 years and has done more than 2000 theme reviews. She is the Theme team representative inside the project and the default theme developer for Twenty Twenty-One, the new default theme out in December 2020.

  • Sponsor Pedro Mendoca

    Pedro is a Portugal based contributor. His main areas of interest are internationalisation and translations. He has made more than 2.5k contributions for open source projects on GitHub, He contributes to WordPress plugins and themes internationalization and translation on GitHub and he works on the Translate WordPress platform.

  • Sponsor William Patton

    William is a UK based developer. He would like to spend more of his time writing code for open source projects without worry of not being able to pay the bills or feed my family. To do that he needs to earn some money from it as he would be taking time away from his full-time work to work on these projects, including WordPress

  • WordPress Accessibility Blog

    The blog of the WordPress Accessibility Team

  • WordPress Core Blog

    The blog of the WordPress Core Team

  • WordPress Design Blog

    The blog of the WordPress Design Team

  • WordPress Themes Blog

    The Blog of the WordPress Themes Team

  • WordPress Roadmap

    Bird’s eye view on priorities, schedule and phases

  • Tentative Release Calendar 2020-2021

    WordPress Tentative schedule for seven releases between 2020 and 2021

  • Gutenberg Times: Live Q & A June 2020. Block-based WordPress Themes / Full Site Editing

    Most recent live demo of Full Site Editing

  • Gutenberg Times: Rethinking Themes in WordPress

    The full-page-editing won’t make all the previous features obsolete, but bring it all into a single user interface so the site owner, blogger, the end user, don’t need to learn all about the various pieces, and just update their content where they want to.

    How is WordPress doing so far? What does it mean for Themes developers, what do they need to learn?

  • Gutenberg Times

    All-things about the WordPress Block Editor

  • Full Site Editing Course

    Full site editing will change how everyone uses themes, and how we build them. Free, sponsorship encouraged course, to learn how to build block-based themes

  • Ways to keep up with Full Site Editing (FSE)

    As work on Full Site Editing continues, it’s important that communication around the project is made explicit so everyone can follow along appropriately. Each person will have their own unique needs in keeping up with a project of this scale so what follows is more of a catalogue of ways to keep up rather than a recommendation for how to do so.

  • The WPCampus Gutenberg Accessibility Audit

    In late 2018, WPCampus released a request for proposals to conduct an accessibility audit of the WordPress Gutenberg editor.

    As of May 2019, all documents are now available.

    This audit is intended to help higher education institutions, and the whole WordPress community, make informed decisions about when and how to upgrade to the new editor.

  • We Called it Gutenberg for a Reason

    Gutenberg moves every part of the WordPress ecosystem forward. Matt’s post from August 2017 about the next big thing in WordPress

  • On not choosing WordPress for the W3C redesign project

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