State of the Word Recap 2023

On today’s episode, we dive into all the details shared at the 2023 State of the Word in Madrid Spain.

In today’s episode, we dive into the annual WordPress State of the Word recap. Below the video are the notes I took from the event

Welcome to State of the Word 2023

Was held in Madrid Spain on Dec 11, 2023
This was the first State of the Word that was help outside of the United States
Kicking off the event, Josepha Haden Chomphosy, Executive Director of the WordPress project, spoke about the community’s heart and spirit as what fuels hope for the future, ensuring the freedoms of the open web for all. She invited Matt on stage with a closing statement of confidence that such values and characteristics will move the project forward into the next 20 years as it has for the last 20.
WordPress turned 20 on May 27th, tons of cake
70 WordCamps in 33 countries
WordCamp Asia happened
2500 WordCamp organizers
2023 Meetup Survey – how can we make meetups better?
WordPress.org/meet will show meetups
100k requests per second when T.Swift was named the person of the year
whitehouse.gov is secure
w.org/remembers
WordPress playgrounds – a virtual machine in your browser – short demo video

plugin authors can optin to add a button to their plugin in the repository
you can develop locally and sync local changes to the browser
you can try out plugin and code effortlessly without having to spin up an environment
56,689 users in 2023

TwentyTwentyFour built with 35 patterns
1339 new contributors to WordPress
Moving into Phase 3 in 2024 which is collaboration
You can start viewing the collaboration feature now with the latest version of Gutenberg
Lock down features, swap out patterns, style variations that will affect only certain patterns
Custom fields – connect blocks with custom fields — something that hasn’t changed in MANY years
Performance – making the admin faster as well as making the frontend faster. 6.4 is 2x faster
wpmovies.dev
Updating list views and view as columns add filters, etc.
Learn AI deeply – a short demo with playgrounds
Data Liberation – migration tools – unlock the digital barriers

one click migrations
copy/paste
other sites, page builders, etc
https://wordpress.org/data-liberation/

Plugins team is looking for volunteers
WordCamp US – Portland Oregon
AI tools for translating videos — translate State of the Word in 2024

What are your plans for 2024?

Here are my WordPress plans:

Weekly content, with a variety of new shows
Contributions to WordPress core or WooCommerce core
Transforming ALL my sites to block theme sites
Day job – helping WooCommerce customers switch over to WooPayments

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