The future of WordPress

Ciao! Sono Francesca

  • WordPress core team lead at Yoast
  • Release co-lead WordPress 5.3 and 5.4

Coordinator of WordPress 5.3 and 5.4

How does change happen in WordPress?

Tentative schedule until the end of 2021

Coming up next WordPress 5.6 - Mid December 2020

Security changes

Don’t fear the auto-updates :)

Security changes

Speed matters

Accessibility matters

The WP Campus Gutenberg accessibility report

A community-led initiative to get Gutenberg tested

The results are in

The W3C decision

We need to ask ourself as a project if accessibility is important for us as it is for the W3C

What’s next?

Gutenberg (WordPress) phases

Phase 1: The editor itself

Gutenberg (WordPress) phases

Phase 2: full site editing

My concerns on full site editing

Concerns

My concerns on full site editing

Timeline. When will it be ready?

My concerns on full site editing

The future of WordPress theme shops Tl;dr: I think it’s good if they leverage it :)

My concerns on full site editing

What it means for old themes? Fear not! They will continue to work.

Stay in the loop

  • https://gutenbergtimes.com
  • https://fullsiteediting.com
  • https://make.wordpress.org (/Core /Design /Accessibility /Themes)

Beyond 2020

Gutenberg (WordPress) phases

Phase 3: collaboration

Gutenberg (WordPress) phases

Phase 4: multilingual

Hopes and Dreams

What colleagues and friends hope and dream for WordPress ♥

Hopes and Dreams

  • More translations
  • Multilingual in Core

Hopes and Dreams

  • Eco-conscious and sustainable platform and codebase
  • More privacy-related tools and functionality
  • Better performance
  • Better SEO out of the box

Hopes and Dreams

  • More competition from other platforms
  • Fully accessible
  • wp-admin as a Single Page Application
  • Application of blockchain

Quote from Marieke va de Rakt, CEO of Yoast

“I would love WordPress to become easier in the future. It is still rather hard for nontechnical people to get started. Also, I think the platform has grown despite its marketing and not because of it. So, in the future of WordPress I would love to have a consistent story, and a consistent strategy” Marieke van de Rakt, Yoast CEO (aka my boss lady)

The Future is bright

If…

Contribute selfishly and generously

We need everyone’s help!

Quote from Eric S. Reymond, The Cathedral and the bazaar

“Every good work of software starts by scratching a developer’s itch” And not only a developer one. Please join!

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