WordPress: 3.0 Milestone, Community, Showcase

Simon LimMalaysia Open Source Conference 2010

Who?

• Based in Kuala Lumpur / Jakarta• WordPress Consultant @ WP Design Studio• Specialization: WordPress Hosting, Optimization,

Scaling and Security• WordCamp Malaysia 2010 Organizer• Email: simon.lim@wpdesignstudio.com• LinkedIn: http://my.linkedin.com/in/simonlim88 • Twitter: @simonlim88

WordPress Overview

• Fork from b2• Open source (GPL)• PHP / MySQL• Founder: Matt

Mullenweg (USA) and Mike Little (UK)

• Initial Release: 0.7 on 27th May 2003

How It Started

• The moment when Matt blog about b2 dilemma and Mike leaves a comment on his blog

• URL: http://ma.tt/2003/01/the-blogging-software-dilemma/#comment-445

WordPress.COM vs. WordPress.ORG

• WordPress.COM: Free/Premium WordPress Hosting services by Automattic Inc.

• WordPress.ORG: Open source project where the software you can install in your own server. (Free)

WordPress 3.0 - Milestone

• Codename: “Thelonious”• Released: 17th June 2010 • Download: >1,000,000 download in a week.• Download Live Stats:

http://wordpress.org/download/counter/

WordPress 3.0 - Features

• Merge between MU (Multi User) and WordPress

• New default theme – “Twenty Ten”• New custom menu management feature• Contextual help text section• Improved custom post types / custom

taxonomies• Improved security

WordPress 3.0 - Video

Please click on the following link to check out the WordPress 3.0 videoSource: http://wordpress.tv/2010/06/17/introducing-wordpress-3-0/

WordPress Community

• Support Forum: http://wordpress.org/support/

• WordPress Development Blog: http://wpdevel.wordpress.com/

• WordPress Bug Reporting/Patching: http://core.trac.wordpress.org/

• WordCamp Worldwidehttp://central.wordcamp.org/

WordPress Community - Malaysia• First WordCamp Malaysia – 22 May 2010 • Monthly/Quarterly WordPress Meetup/Events• Official Community Site – in progress

WordPress Malaysia Community Grouphttp://groups.google.com/group/wordpress-malaysia-community

WordCamp Malaysia Official Sitehttp://wordcamp.my

WordPress Showcase

• Awards• Market Share / Trends• WordPress Centric Startup • WordPress Site Examples

Awards

• 2007: Packt Open Source CMS Award• 2009: Best Open Source CMS Award

Source:http://www.packtpub.com/article/open-source-cms-award-previous-winnershttp://www.packtpub.com/award

Market Share

• WordPress has about 8.5 % market share of entire Internet

• 79% of top million sites with a blog use WordPress

Source: http://www.infoworld.com/d/applications/drupal-upgrade-be-slower-more-scalable-239http://trends.builtwith.com/blog/WordPress

Market Share – Trends

Source: http://www.google.com/trends?q=wordpress%2C+joomla%2C+drupal&ctab=0&geo=all&date=2010&sort=0

WordPress Centric Startup• Custom WordPress Development • Premium Themes/Plugins Marketplace• WordPress Hosting / Scaling

Malaysia Based Startup1. Simply WP – Free/Custom Theme Development2. Kreative Themes - WordPress Premium Themes3. ThePremiumPress - BuddyPress Premium Plugins 4. WP Web Host – WordPress Hosting And many more to come!!!

Disclosure: The mentioned startups are first WordCamp Malaysia sponsors while Kreative Themes are part of the organizing committee.

WordPress Site Examples

International Site• Techcrunch• Mashable• Wall Street Journal Magazine

Malaysia Site• 15Malaysia – community movie project• This Week In Asia – podcast• Zaid Ibrahim & Co – biggest law firm

Questions???

Thank You

By Simon LimWordPress Consultant @ WP Design Studio

Email: simon.lim@wpdesignstudio.comLinkedIn: http://my.linkedin.com/in/simonlim88 Twitter: @simonlim88