The State of the Word – Matt Mullenweg and more

Video of Matt Mullenweg’s “State of the Word” at WordCamp San Francisco couple month ago. I always find listening to Mullenweg talk about WordPress fascinating. His poise and his passion has not diminished since he started out ‘Democratizing Publishing’ through Blogging and WordPress in 2003, when he forked an earlier blogging software and created an open-source community that span the whole world. Get yourself some coffee, sit back and listen in on “The State of the Word 2014”

The WordPress in Numbers

• 23.6% of the web is powered by WordPress, from 17.4% in 2012.
• 785 contributers to WordPress core
• 6,458 new plugins have been approved, bringing the total of plugins in the WordPress.org repository to 34, 016.
• 684 new themes were approved, an increase of 36% to a total of 2,781 Themes on WordPress.org. Note: this doesn’t count the 3rd party and premium themes that are available for WordPress ecosystem.
• A total of 1,000,000 commits in the SVN repository (WordPress’s version control system), 22% happened alone in 2014

WordPress Version used around the Internet

If you haven’t installed 4.0 yet, don’t procrastinate any longer! 

See Slides of 2014 WordCamps in Florida:

• Tampa (the slides are link from the sessions pages)
• Orlando (no slide page yet)
• Miami

After his presentation, Matt Mullenweg stayed around for a 45 min Q & A session.