The Future Of WordPress Presentation
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- The document discusses the past and future of WordPress. It outlines the major versions released from 2003 to 2008 and some of their new features. - It then discusses anticipated features for upcoming versions 2.7 and 2.8, including a redesigned backend UI, upgrade API, improved page management, and more CMS features. - The future may also include better support for mobile viewing, open authentication, and improvements to WordPress MU for scalability and administration.
The Future Of WordPress Presentation
- 1. The Future of WordPress WordCamp Birmingham 2008 Dougal Campbell
- 2. Who am I? Persistence of Vision Raytracer (POVRay) MyPhpBlog (now Simplog) WordPress “Developer Emeritus” Plugins HeadMeta Theme Preview Text Filter Suite (Talk Like a Pirate) EasyGravatars SpamValve Dougal Campbell, Web Developer
- 3. The Past of WordPress
- 4. The Past of WordPress Forked from b2 in 2003 Started by Matt Mullenweg with Mike Little Later joined by Dougal, Alex, Donncha, Michel Initial focus on web standards and UI: XHTML CSS New admin interface 12 Feature releases so far...
- 5. The Past of WordPress: ver 0.70 May 2003 New admin interface XHTML + CSS Link Manager wptexturize filter
- 6. The Past of WordPress: ver 0.71 June 2003 ezSQL Post status (publish, draft, private) Comment status Combined comments, trackbacks, pingbacks OPML links import Clean upgrades Speed optimizations
- 7. The Past of WordPress: ver 0.72 October 2003 Password-protected posts Comments RSS Blogger, metaWeblog, and MovableType API Quicktags editor Web-based options configuration Conditional GET support for feeds
- 8. The Past of WordPress: ver 1.0 January 2004 XFN support Atom 0.3 feeds Improved user management Speedups Movable Type and Textpattern importers Friendly permalinks Multiple categories per post
- 9. The Past of WordPress: ver 1.2 May 2004 Sub-categories OPML export Password encryption in DB and cookies I18N and L10N Comment moderation & mass comment editing Post preview WordPress in a sub-folder Postmeta “custom fields” “Freedom Zero” migration...
- 10. The Past of WordPress: ver 1.5 February 2005 Comment moderation improvements Comment whitelisting Pages Dashboard New theme system Kubrick as default template
- 11. The Past of WordPress: ver 2.0 December 2005 Admin redesign New images uploader Importer framework WYSIWYG editor (TinyMCE) Movable/Collapsible post option boxes Roles/Capabilities Akismet plugin bundled
- 12. The Past of WordPress: ver 2.1 January 2007 Search engine privacy option Javascript loader Autosave WXR import/export Custom front page 'home' Pseudo-cron
- 13. The Past of WordPress: ver 2.2 May 2007 “Infinite comment stream” (AJAX) Broken plugin protection WordPress-specific XML-RPC API Transition to jQuery in backend phpMailer introduced Site URL override in wp-config Atom 1.0 feeds (finally) Widgets
- 14. The Past of WordPress: ver 2.3 September 2007 Tags/taxonomy system Version update notifications Canonical URLs “Pending” post status Atom Publishing Protocol (APP) Prepared database queries
- 15. The Past of WordPress: ver 2.5 March 2008 Redesigned backend Dashboard widgets Pages added to search Tag Management Plugin upgrade manager Galleries Shortcode API Multi-file uploads with progress bar EXIF extraction
- 16. The Past of WordPress: ver 2.6 July 2008 New “Press This” bookmarklet Bulk plugin management Customizable default Gravatars Theme previews Movable wp-config and wp-content SSL support Google Gears support Post revisions
- 17. The Future of WordPress
- 18. The Future of WordPress: ver 2.7 November 2008 Another Backend UI Redesign Upgrade API Comment improvements Sticky posts “Quick Edit” inline editing HTTPonly cookies New HTTP request API Confirmed Features
- 19. The Future of WordPress: ver 2.7 APP Importer Movable Type TypePad Blogger New default theme Based on Sandbox? Possible Features Confirmed Features “Press This” improvements Settings UI APIs for plugins phpDoc
- 20. The Future of WordPress: ver 2.8+ Better page management Select page order Hide pages Expand template functions Users Comments Attachments From Trac Tickets
- 21. The Future of WordPress: ver 2.8+ More CMS features Better widget management a la Widget Logic plugin BuddyPress crossover functionality Intense Debate features trickle in Federated authentication (OpenID?) DiSo (Distributed Social networking) Enhancements geared towards mobile viewing Personal Speculation
- 22. What about WordPress MU? Better out-of-the-box scalability Overcome filesystem limits for blogs.dir HyperDB updates Better splog detection/protection Site admin improvements Version updates
- 23. The Future of WordPress Thank you!