523 – State of the Word 2023 Recap

Announcements State of the Word Recap

Announcements

Redesigned WordPress Reader
Annual Survey
Watch the State of the Word 2023

State of the Word Recap

Software Amish barn raising, where thousands of people come together to build something.
Gutenberg is now in lots of places. Forums are now using Gutenberg and even places that aren’t WordPress are using it – like DayOne web interface and Tumblr. Matt thinks it will be bigger than WordPress.
Meetups grew. They doubled from 2021. WordCamps – 1 in 2021, 22 in 2022
WordPress turns 20 in 2023. wp20.wordpress.net for more details
Learn.wordpress.com – free education
wordpress.org has a new design
Lots of enhancements – block themes, styles and variations
Theme 2023 will be available with the next release
Phase 2 is complete – you can create an entire site with blocks
Create blank theme https://wordpress.org/themes/create-blank-theme
Zen mode – grays out other areas of your site while you are writing
Patterns allow you to build a site and lock the design, but easy for others to change images, etc.
1399 contributors for one of the three releases
New classifications of plugins, one-man-shop, community plugins, commercial plugins launching this month
Phase 3 –

Real-time collaboration.
Asynchronous collaboration, multi-author, sharing of drafts, inline block commenting.
Editorial flows, customized goals, complete tasks before publishing, etc.
Improve post revisions interface and flows, make it block-first.
Media library updates, full integration with openverse.
Add missing admin management for blocks, patterns, styles, fonts.
Admin overhaul and customized user flows, improve list views (posts, pages, comments, etc).
Introduce admin search and notifications infrastructure.

Phase 4 – make everything multi-language
Annual survey – let your voice be heard
Chat.OpenAI

“Write a short scene in which Matt, founder of WordPress, describes FSE in a single word”
Matt, the founder of WordPress, stood on a stage in front of a large crowd of eager developers. He smiled confidently and said, “Full Site Editing in a single word? Transformative.” The crowd erupted in applause as Matt walked off the stage

WordPress Playground – a virtual browser version of WordPress. Try out a plugin instantly – https://github.com/WordPress/wordpress-playground

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