WordPress Resource: Your Website Engineer with Dustin Hartzler

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