State of the Word 2008
By patrick, posted August 16, 2008 at 3:13 pm | 1 Comment »
Post has been updated with the Video of this, that was shot by John P., at the bottom.
Matt Mullenweg after some set up, and allowing some time to talk amoung ourselves, gets started.
Strong. (promises to to only use a transition once…)
And the numbers last year -to-> this year
User Suggestions
713 -> 931 (Suggestion)
36,676 -> 12,932 (Votes)
Maybe not providing enough info about suggestion ideas
1,090 -> 2,840 (Number of Changes)
11 Releases this last month ( : )
3 New Developers
- Mark Janquith
- Peter Westwood
- Andrew Ozz
Downloads
2,849,349 -> 11,148,764
WordPress.com
1 to almost 2 million Blogs
20,212,994 -> 35,832,126 (New Blogs)
1.6 Billion to 6.5 Billion (pageviews)
3 times the pageview (number not given) are .org bloggers
5 Billion caught 99.57% Accuracy of Akismet
Aside: Spammers are getting cleverer
Compliment Spam so far has been the most effective.
WordCamps
9 last year
14 Coming Up
50-450 people in each one
4-5000 people all over are going to them
Milan was in a park to a couple hundred, SF is tech, the greek one was only 50 or so people but was based mainly on eating.
3 major Releases
6 major additons
Admin redesign
Multi-file Upload
Gallery
One-Click Plugin Upgrades
Gears
Revision Tracking
Press-This
iPhone App!
70,000 Installs
154 reviews
Matt wants a wii interface. Offers stage presence to them.
Theme Directory
World Premiere:
WordPress Zeitgeist
WordPress Usage
2,604,288
WordPress.org Blogs
1,777,222 Secure
+ thousands more daily
2.5 and 2.6 are both going up in numbers. 2.3 Numbers hasn’t been changing.
Apologizes for php5 comments.
Good News:
2/3 of blogs are on php5
Until it drops well below 10% of users are using php4 they’ll keep supporting it.
So far they haven’t been held back by php4 support.
Plugins
It has full access to the WordPress engine, so it can do some amazing things.
Free-Market of Features
12 Hello Dolly
145 OpenID
10. cforms
9. wp-polls
8. WordPress Automatic Upgrade
7. wp-cache
6. wp-db backup
5.**MISSED IT**
4. next-gen gallery
2. all-in seo
1. Akismet
4.96 Average number of plugins activated
The Most Plugins
- 1,290 plugins installed
- 526 Active
Better Plugin Stats – Something they want to work on
Themes for 2009
Upgrades
- Community
- Web Hosts
- In-Core
With good interaction and automatic updating ala firefox
Security
Huge List of Gov Agencies using WordPress.
2.6.1 Was a non-required upgrade. The first in a long time.
Plugins – exposure but limited
(most recent security issues have been plugins)
Exposure was under 1%
Multi-Modal
HubPress? 
(Already registered domain)
BackPress – Still be worked on. Extracting out the parts that would be useful
BuddyPress (A lot of people raised hands and noted they where interested in using it) – Aiming for release this year
fashion & tattoos - Perhaps opensourcing shirt and fashion design using their logo
Crazyhorse!
Year of Themes
- Monotone – A photo blog that customizes theme to photo
- Prolouge – Twitter in a box
- Resume theme
- Realtor themes
- Excited to see what else comes out
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