State of the WordMark Jaquithmarkjaquith.com

coveredwebservices.com@markjaquith

Independent WordPress Developer

What have we been up

to?

WordPress 2.7

One-click WordPress upgrade

WordPress upgrade FAIL

New admin interface

Keyboard shortcuts for

comment moderation

Reply to comments from admin

interface

Threaded comments

Comment paging

Consensus:“we like!”

Over 5.2 million downloads

Google Fight!

42results

“WordPress 2.7 sucks”

485results

“WordPress 2.7 rocks”

User Experience:a goal, not an afterthought

Jane WellsMatt Thomas

“ [WordPress] helps me publish to the point that

the tool actually disappears from my

perspective ”

— Michael Ashby

You Content

You Content

Stats

How many WordPress

users?

~13 Million

Air ForceArmy

Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)Coast Guard

Defense Intelligence AgencyDepartment of Energy

Department of Homeland SecurityDepartment of State

Department of TreasuryDrug Enforcement Agency (DEA)

Marine CorpsFederal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)

National Geospatial Intelligence AgencyNational Reconnaissance O!ceNational Security Agency (NSA)

Navy

WordPress 2.8

::yawn::

Widget management

Theme installer

Not that there’s anything wrong

with that

BuddyPress

Facebook in a box?

Ning that you control

BYOTOS

bbPress

The WordPress

Family

WordPress.tv

WordCamps

WP Community

WP of Tomorrow

Today:your words,on the web

Tomorrow:YOU, on the web

Tumblr?Yes, but more

than that

“Help! I’ve given my data to

services I can’t control and I can’t

get up!”

Failu

re /

Evi

l

Time

Closed source platform

No dead ends

Phase One:

Photos

Connect the silos

Communityand

Marketplace

Free = goodFree = overwhelming

Plugins can do anything

Plugins can do anything

We’re listening

Thanks!markjaquith.com

coveredwebservices.com@markjaquith