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
2. Pascal Birchler @swissspidy
3. WordPress pays my bills
4. WordPress Past – Present – Future
5. Past
6. b2
7. Plugins
8. WordPress.com
9. WordCamp San Francisco
10. Version 3.0
11. Customizer
12. How I got into WordPress
13. WordPress 2007 3700 Plugins 530 Themes 55 Locales
14. “WordPress is for blogging only”
15. Present
17. 23.9% of the web (a lot)
18. WordPress 4.2 English Others DE
19. 80 63 25 WordCamps 2006 2008 2010 2014 WordCamp SF
20. Events Everywhere
23. Why WordPress?
24. required+ Sergej Müller Dominik Schilling Elmastudio WordPress.com Inpsyde ThemeShift Sponsors Hosting Providers Contributors Automattic Developers
25. WordPress is not that bad
26. Security
27. WordPress The Dark Side
28. Dependency
29. Directories
30. Menu Customizer
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
32. The Golden Cage
33. We power WordPress
34. Future
35. My WordPress Wishlist
36. WordPress 4.3
37. August 18th
38. REST API
39. WordPress as a Backend
40. JavaScript
41. We’re far from done
42. Get Involved
43. “But I’m not a developer!”
44. make.wordpress.org
46. Contributor Day
49. Stay Open-Minded
50. DrupalCon
51. WordCamp Europe
53. Make new friends
54. (sober up)
55. Thank You!