1

WordPress and so on!

邦彦@2010.06.28

2

我简单说几句…

3

WordPress 3.0

• Twenty ten new theme, custom menus, backgrounds, headers

• Dashboard new look, bulk updates, help on every screen

• Core features multi-site, custom post types, taxonomies

• Others URL shortener, admin username

http://wordpress.org/development/2010/06/thelonious/

4

Why use it?

• open source software

• high market share

• confirm to web standards

• SEO friendly

• api for third-party publish tool

• extensive help doc

• powerful themes and plugins mechanism

…

5

Timeline

the best open source CMS award in 2009 http://codex.wordpress.org/History

2003 2010

2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010

20030.7

20041.2 (Mingus)

20072.1 (Ella)

20052.0 (Duke)

20051.5 (Strayhorn)

20072.2 (Getz)

20072.3 (Dexter)

20082.5 (Brecker)

20082.6 (Tyner)

20082.7 (Coltrane)

20092.8 (Baker)

20092.9 (Carmen)

20103.0 (Thelonious)

6

Milestone

• WordPress Wins Packt Overall Best Open Source CMS @2009 http://www.packtpub.com/award

• 202 million worldwide, 62.8 million US @2009.09 http://andrewapeterson.com/2009/09/wordpress-usage-202-million-worldwide-62-8-million-us/

• 200,000,000 blog posts at wordpress.com @2010.06.18 http://en.blog.wordpress.com/2010/06/18/200000000-posts-and-counting/

7

Site cases

• Overseas wordpress.com, cnn, wsj, new york times…

techcrunch, readwriteweb, mashable (GFWed)…

• China wordpress.com.cn, donews, 72pines (GFWed), yo2…

萌芽，小众软件，可能吧 (GFWed)，煎蛋，善用佳软，科学松鼠会…

8

D2 blogs

who base on WordPress?

• Smashing Magazine (204,296 readers, 205,651 followers)

• Noupe, Sixrevisions, Designm.ag, Cats Who Code…

• Webdesigner Depot, Web Designer Wall, Web Design Ledger…

http://www.smashingmagazine.com/the-smashing-network/

RSS feed of all:

http://rss1.smashingmagazine.com/feed/?f=smashing-network

9

Stories behind

• Smashing Media GmbH

From 2 to 4, now more than 4!

10

BSP(blog service provider)

WordPress.com -- Express yourself. Start a blog. http://wordpress.com

11

Traffic Rank

• WordPress.com on alexa.com equally matched with google.com.hk, now 18, day day up! http://www.alexa.com/topsites

12

Automattic

wordpress.com =

WordPress +

BuddyPress +

Others

http://www.automattic.com

13

Ma.tt

• Matt Mullenweg -- the wordpress founding developer

• PC World's Top 50 people on the web • Inc.com's 30 under 30 • Business Week's 25 most influential

people on the web

http://ma.tt/about/

14

WP culture

• WordCamps upcoming

a little fire kindles a forest – chairman Mao

http://central.wordcamp.org/schedule/

15

Something others…

16

Browsers updating

• Firefox 3.6.6 (auto-updated)

Firefox 3.6.6 modifies the crash protection feature to increase the amount of time that plugins are allowed to be non-responsive before being terminated.

Firefox 3.6 Release Notes

• Chrome a fresh coat of chrome, simpler and cleaner http://blog.chromium.org/2010/06/fresh-coat-of-chrome.html (GFWed) archive: http://www.cnbeta.com/articles/114861.htm

• Sogou hijack the default search of IE -_-! Related search results:

http://www.baidu.com/s?wd=%CB%D1%B9%B7%CB%D1%CB%F7%20%BD%D9%B3%D6&rsp=0&oq=%CB%D1%B9%B7%BD%D9%B3%D6%20ie%20%CB%D1%CB%F7&f=1

17

Chrome and UX

• Changes

stable 5.0 dev 6.0 dev (mac)

may tweak or even revert experiments before settling on a final solution

18

So similar

19

Oh, fuck!

20

War of World

…

21

Thanks! ^_^