WordCamp Cologne 2015 – Keynote

These are the slides for my keynote at WordCamp Cologne, where I talked about the history and future of WordPress. I mention its origins, reasons for success and also the bad parts of it.

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1. Keynote
   WordCamp Cologne 2015
   

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2. Pascal Birchler
   @swissspidy
   

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3. WordPress
   pays my bills
   

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4. WordPress
   Past – Present – Future
   

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5. Past
   

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6. b2
   

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7. Plugins
   

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8. WordPress.com
   

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9. WordCamp San Francisco
   

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10. Version 3.0
    

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11. Customizer
    

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12. How I got into WordPress
    

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13. WordPress 2007
    3700 Plugins
    530 Themes
    55 Locales
    

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14. “WordPress is for
    blogging only”
    

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15. Present
    

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17. 23.9% of the web
    (a lot)
    

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18. WordPress 4.2
    English
    Others
    DE
    

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19. 80
    63
    25
    WordCamps
    2006 2008 2010 2014
    WordCamp SF
    

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20. Events Everywhere
    

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23. Why WordPress?
    

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24. required+
    Sergej Müller
    Dominik Schilling
    Elmastudio
    WordPress.com
    Inpsyde
    ThemeShift
    Sponsors
    Hosting Providers
    Contributors
    Automattic
    Developers
    

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25. WordPress is
    not that bad
    

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26. Security
    

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27. WordPress
    The Dark Side
    

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28. Dependency
    

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29. Directories
    

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30. Menu Customizer
    

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31. We have become too much of an
    inward-facing community and afraid
    to make a painful leap forward to
    make the next WordPress.
    “
    — Matt Mullenweg
    

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32. The Golden Cage
    

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33. We power WordPress
    

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34. Future
    

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35. My WordPress Wishlist
    

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36. WordPress 4.3
    

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37. August 18th
    

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38. REST API
    

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39. WordPress as
    a Backend
    

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40. JavaScript
    

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41. We’re far from done
    

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42. Get Involved
    

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43. “But I’m not a developer!”
    

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44. make.wordpress.org
    

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46. Contributor Day
    

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49. Stay Open-Minded
    

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50. DrupalCon
    

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51. WordCamp Europe
    

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53. Make new friends
    

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54. (sober up)
    

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55. Thank You!
    

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