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September 27th, 2008 | Posted in WordPress 100 Comments »
(live blogged)
During some preliminary technical issues …
Jane says, “I can feel the nerdiness vibes increase ….” And then checks her blog and sees that she just won another bloggy award.
Someone twitters that he doesn’t know a single person at Wordcamp. Guy next to me searches Twitter and finds his tweet. I follow him. Then Jane points out that the guy who sent the tweet is sitting right next to me. Same table. Holy smokes.
Technical issues solved, Matt gets into his presentation.
WordPress Stats
Matt mentioned some stats about WordPress:
- 2.8 million downloads of WordPress in 2007; 11 million downloads in 2008
- 11 new releases of WordPress.org this year
- Bloggers write the equivalent of “an English Wikipedia and a half” per month on WordPress.com blogs alone
- 230 million unique people viewed posts on WordPress.com blogs
- WordCamps have increased — 14 so far this year, 4 happening today, 10 upcoming. In places all over the world: China, South Africa, Philippines.
- 5 billion spam comments caught by Akismet in the last year
There’s a new type of spam sneaking through: (1) spam that is praising/flattering; (2) spam that copies your other comments, but changes the URL; (3) spam that comes from third-world spam sweat shops. Akismet’s challenge is to identify spam even when bloggers approve the comments.
New WordPress Developments Accomplished This Year
- The iPhone WordPress App. 100,000 installs of the iPhone app so far. Very popular in San Francisco, not so much in China.
- WordPress Theme Directory. The central repository filters out shady themes that have hidden sponsor links and other backdoor practices.
- WordPress Zeitgeist. More blogs than they thought: 5.6 million WordPress.com blogs, even more with WordPress.org and WordPress multi-user blogs.
- PHP 5. High adoption of PHP 5; WordPress may make it a standard.
- Intelligent tails/Better plugin stats. WordPress developers will look at the popularity of plugins and track usage to plan for future inclusions in the core.
Top 10 WordPress Plugins
- Akismet
- All-in-one-seo pack
- Google-sitemap generator
- Next-gen gallery
- Stats plugins
- Wp-db-backup
- Caching plugins
- WP Automatic Upgrade
- WP-polls
- 10. cforms (contact forms)
The average blog has 4.96 activate plugins. Plugins allow users to create a unique, customized blog. Other blogging platforms have more features than WordPress, but they can’t complete with the 3,000+ plugins that WordPress provides through its community.
Planned Features for WordPress 2.7
- Dashboard Redesign. The new design is based on usability eye-tracking tests. Expandable/collapsible navigation on the left.
- Drag and Drop arrangements. You can drag around the various components on the Write page. Ability to hide and show the components you want.
- Sticky posts. Ability to keep a post pinned to the top of your home page.
- Single Insert Media button. The upload media button automatically figures out what type of media you’re uploading.
- Quick Inline Editing. Ability to edit posts without fully refreshing the page. Ajax technology.
- Comments API. Update and moderate comments from your mobile device (rather than just write and edit posts).
- Dashboard comment replies. Reply to comments directly from the Dashboard.
- Threaded comments. Ability to thread comment conversations automatically, or allow users to thread their comments (insert replies below the relevant comment rather than at the end). Threading helps the conversation make sense.
- Keyboard Shortcuts. Similar to the abundance of shortcuts in Google Reader.
- Automatic plugin install in browser. Ability to install new plugins directly from within your blog, rather than FTPing them. They’ll attempt to do this with themes too. This is WordPress’ attempt to seamlessly integrate the strength of its community.
WordPress 2.7 will be available in November.
What’s After WordPress 2.7?
- Automatic upgrades. You’ll have the ability to update directly from within your blog.
- Web host updating. When a new release is available, WordPress wants to ensure all web hosts have the latest version.
- Security. The list of federal agencies using WordPress is extensive (includes Homeland Security, FBI, NSA, military divisions, Treasury, etc.). WordPress wants to ensure the platform is secure (even with all the vulnerability from plugins).
- Media. WordPress will do more with videos, slideshows, photos, and other media.
- WordPress as Hub. WordPress wants to incorporate all the activity you do online. For example, when you post to Twitter, Facebook, or Flickr, it should show it on your blog (or be included in your blog’s database).
- BackPress. Integrate the frameworks of other platforms more seamlessly into WordPress to allow sharing or transferring of information (BBpress, BuddyPress, etc.).
- Fashion + Tattoos. More WordPress apparel.
- Year of Themes. More and better themes (similar to Prologue), as well as themes with integrated plugins. Matt says, “Themes are where the action is.”
- Screencasts. WordPress hired a help author (I believe), who is creating 40-50 screencasts. They plan to integrate the screencasts throughout the WordPress interface.
- WordPress TV. Broadcasts of the Wordcamp sessions that take place throughout the world.
See Matt’s blog at http://ma.tt
Tags: Matt Mullenweg, wordcamp utah, WordPress
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It’s good to see that Wordpress is making spam control a priority. It seems like a high percentage of spam comments are being generated by bots, semi-automatic posting tools, and outsourced labor.
Great recap post! I feel like I was there.
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It’s really crazy how Wordpress has blown up. Well, actually it’s not that hard to comprehend. It’s simple to install, setup and use. Then there are also a million plugins that basically extend it’s functionality to support just about any need you can think of (CMS, SEO, Security, etc.).
I like how they are in tune with the community and are building (or at least thinking of building) in the features of the really popular plugins right into the app.
Do you have any pictures or screenshots of 2.7?
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Interesting stuff!
I love your thoughts! I normally don\’t even bother to leave comments, but I wanted to let you know that you hit the nail on the head!
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[...] WordPress 2.7 and beyond from Matt at WordCamp Utah [...]
[...] WordPress 2.7 and beyond from Matt at WordCamp Utah [...]
[...] WordPress 2.7 and beyond from Matt at WordCamp Utah [...]
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[...] WordPress 2.7 and beyond from Matt at WordCamp Utah This was interesting to us, a blogging software release we actually blogged about, but the process was hugely informative. Prior to its release today Crazyhorse and 2.7 had been tested by tens of thousands of people on their blogs, hundreds of thousands of you count .com. The volume of feedback was so high that we decided to push back the release date a month to take time to incorporate it all and do more revisions based on what you guys said. For those of you wondering why we didn’t call this release 3.0, it’s because we abhor version number inflation. 3.0 will just be the next release after 2.9. The major features in new point releases approach also works well for products like OS X, with huge changes between a 10.3 and 10.4. [...]
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Hi,
I have been here a couple of times before, and I enjoy reading your blog, about wp 2.7 I havent upgraded yet because everytime theres an upgrade theres some bugs they have to get rid off first.
Happy new year to you and your readers
best regards
Camilla
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Wordpress indeed is a very good solution. I love it, Quick Updates
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The downside to 11 updates a year is trying to keep up with everything across a network of blogs. I love the autoupdate feature, right to the point where it makes something break.
Before you update/upgrade you really have to be sure to backup everything and then make sure all your plug ins and your templates are compatible with the new version.
Things can and will break moving from 2.6.5 to 2.7 – and that is the voice of experience.
heard lots of people prefer the older version
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Wordpress has become a vital part of our Web 2.0 lives. With its vast amounts of plugins and extra’s, open source rules
Thanks a lot for sharing info
wordpress 2.7 is better than older version and plugins are very usefull
Just when got used to the old version a new one comes along! But you better keep up with the times. Right
Yup i am really impressed. I think that this blog and posts on it are worth reading really. But i must confess that i preffer the old version too like a many before…..but great work:)
I absolutely love Wordpress 2.7. I have been using it since the first day it got released and I think it is the best version out so far.
The interface is the best out there, and it is so simple to use.
I just started using wordpress and I am in love. I don’t have much coding experience but I have been doing well. I am excited to see where they go next. Great post!
For sometime I have been avoiding wordpress. i just didn’t think it allowed me enough space to grow like joomla.
however, after having checked the last update and a few of my competitors doing great things with their blogs, I think I might actually reconsider.
Thanks for a detailed info on the 2.7 platform.
I REALLY liked your post and blog! It took me a little bit to find your site…but I book marked it. Would you mind if I but a link back to my site at whiterabbitcult.com?
I find Wordpress Database back up plugin really helpful in maintaining my blog. I also often use the all-in-one seopack in organizing tags.
[...] WordPress 2.7 and beyond from Matt at WordCamp Utah This was interesting to us, a blogging software release we actually blogged about, but the process was hugely informative. Prior to its release today Crazyhorse and 2.7 had been tested by tens of thousands of people on their blogs, hundreds of thousands of you count .com. The volume of feedback was so high that we decided to push back the release date a month to take time to incorporate it all and do more revisions based on what you guys said. For those of you wondering why we didn’t call this release 3.0, it’s because we abhor version number inflation. 3.0 will just be the next release after 2.9. The major features in new point releases approach also works well for products like OS X, with huge changes between a 10.3 and 10.4. [...]
Wordpress is the best blogging platform.
easy and powerful at the same time
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Yes, Wordpress – is a fantastic platform for Blogging! My blog load faster, by 35%. Unfortunately, the transition to a new platform, not work antispam plug-ins. =0 =)
I was reading an article that mentioned a word of caution in using CAPTCHAs all the time and said to use an akismet scanner in its place. What is that?
I’m impressed with the stats. I knew Wordpress was good, but didn’t realize they had that large a following. 11 million downloads in 2008! That’s crazy.
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Great post. I think wordpress is doing a fabulous job and is beating the other CMS platforms handsdown. The USP is the community support. However i feel there is one thing that needs to be looked at urgently as it is at the core wordpress and that is its editor. The editor i feel has a tendency to crumble where even simple things like line spacing can become an issue. I hope they have something planned for this as well.
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Wordpress is the best. I was a fan of blogger, but now it’s word press all the way. WP makes it so easy. Anyone seen beeter traffic from the .com version (rather than WP on your own site?)
I´m also on Blogger but if u want to create real blogs for
special purpose u have to host ur own blog especially with wordpress cause it´s famous today
It’s definitely amazing to see how fast wordpress has grown and how many people are using it now. Very interesting article.
Thank your for your informative and helpful post regarding updates of WordPress. Hope I could expect more.
very good post indeed
i like word press
It’s good to see that Wordpress is attempting to tackle the comment spam. It seems like a huge amount of comments are being generated by bots, semi-automatic posting tools, and outsourced labor.
thank you.ı Love you wordpress…
thanks…
I went to the paris WordCamp, this week end, were I saw Matt. Nice guy, really. He explained to us what we will see in the next version of WordPress, when it comes, i’ll open a bottle of Champagne
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I must say word press just makes your life so much easier. I am not sure how I ever survived with out it. It is such a life saver. I can’t wait for the latest version to come out. I am so excited! Yeah word press!
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I’m still using an older version of wordpress. I had plans upgrading it to wordpress 2.7. Will definitely do it now. Thanks for sharing the information. Great post by the way.
Wordpress is by far the best blog platform ever. It’s very easy to use, seo friendly and you can’t love it.
Wordpress rocks.
I agree. WP is the best platform. I recently moved to Wordpress from blogger and really am amazed with it. Regretting the late move. WP is simply awesome. Glad to see what WP is going to provide us in the future. Thanks for the information.
Is this a free? or paid?
It shows that one good idea can take off. Wordpress has taken over as the number one used platofrm for bloging. Just look at all the good plugins they have now no one compares to them now.
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I liked your post.. Use WordPress to publish your podcasts — it makes it incredibly easy… Announce your new podcasts on social networking sites such as Twitter, Facebook, and FriendFeed.. Thanks for sharing the information.
I agree. This is a good outline on how to get the most out of your first or next podcast and be seen throughout your target audience…Podcasts is becoming ever more popular! It’s so convenient for publisher and listener…
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I liked your post…The central repository filters out shady themes that have hidden sponsor links and other backdoor practices.WordPress developers will look at the popularity of plugins and track usage to plan for future inclusions in the core.
It’s good to see that Word press is making spam control a priority. It seems like a high percentage of spam comments are being generated by bots, semi-automatic posting tools, and outsourced labor.
I can’t wait for the latest version to come out. I am so excited. The volume of feedback was so high that we decided to push back the release date a month to take time to incorporate it all and do more revisions based on what you guys said. I feel there is one thing that needs to be looked at urgently as it is at the core word press and that is its editor.
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ohhh thank u !
Great article. This certainly gives an idea of where wordpress is heading and what we can expect in the near future. Thanks for the top 10 plugin list. I see some plugins that might be very useful to me. Thanks for sharing the information.
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I just started using wordpress 2.7 for my finance related blog. Wordpress is awesome. Also I’ve been looking for useful plugins. Specially to block spam comments. I’ll see whether your plugin list has something for me. Thanks for bringing up the info.
Is Akismet a spam filter. Because I’m using “spam karma”. but some say Akismet is good too. Plugin list is very good. I’m going to download the “wp db backup” plugin for my e-commerce website. Thanks for sharing the information.
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Wordpress is awesome. As you mentioned the support is second to none for a open CMS. Also if you know how to optimize it and post content to avoid the duplicate content penalty you can have a nice highly optimized site. Keep up the good work!
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