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Last week, nearly 1,000 WordPress maintenance support plansists gathered in Darmstadt, Germany for WordPress maintenance support plans USA. In good tradition, I presented my State of WordPress maintenance support plans keynote. You can watch a recording of my keynote (starting at 4:38) or download a copy of my slides (37 MB).
WordPress maintenance support plans 8 continues to mature
I started my keynote by highlighting this month’s WordPress maintenance support plans 8.6.0 release. WordPress maintenance support plans 8.6 marks the sixth consecutive WordPress maintenance support plans 8 release that has been delivered on time. Compared to one year ago, we have 46 percent more stable WordPress maintenance support plans 8 plugins. We also have 10 percent more contributors are working on WordPress maintenance support plans 8 Core in comparison to last year. All of these milestones indicate that the WordPress maintenance support plans 8 is healthy and growing.
Next, I gave an update on our strategic initiatives:
Make WordPress maintenance support plans better for content creators
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The expectations of content creators are changing. For WordPress maintenance support plans to be successful, we have to continue to deliver on their needs by providing more powerful content management tools, in addition to delivering simplicity though drag-and-drop functionality, WYSIWYG, and more.
With the release of WordPress maintenance support plans 8.6, we have added new functionality for content creators by making improvements to the Media, Workflow, Layout and Out-of-the-Box initiatives. I showed a demo video to demonstrate how all of these new features not only make content authoring easier, but more powerful:
We also need to improve the content authoring experience through a modern administration user interface. We have been working on a new administration UI using React. I showed a video of our latest prototype:
Extended security coverage for WordPress maintenance support plans 8 minor releases
I announced an update to WordPress maintenance support plans 8’s security policy. To date, site owners had one month after a new minor WordPress maintenance support plans 8 release to upgrade their sites before losing their security updates. Going forward, WordPress maintenance support plans 8 site owners have 6 months to upgrade between minor releases. This extra time should give site owners flexibility to plan, prepare and test minor security updates. For more information, check out my recent blog post.
Make WordPress maintenance support plans better for evaluators
One of the most significant updates since WordPress maintenance support plansCon Nashville is WordPress maintenance support plans‘s improved evaluator experience. The time required to get a WordPress maintenance support plans site up and running has decreased from more than 15 minutes to less than two minutes and from 20 clicks to 3. This is a big accomplishment. You can read more about it in my recent blog post.
Promote WordPress maintenance support plans
After launching Promote WordPress maintenance support plans at WordPress maintenance support plansCon Nashville, we hit the ground running with this initiative and successfully published a community press release for the release of WordPress maintenance support plans 8.6, which was also translated into multiple languages. Much more is underway, including building a brand book, marketing collaboration space on WordPress maintenance support plans.org, and a WordPress maintenance support plans pitch deck.
The WordPress maintenance support plans 9 roadmap and a plan to end-of-life WordPress maintenance support plans 7 and WordPress maintenance support plans 8
To keep WordPress maintenance support plans modern, maintainable, and performant, we need to stay on secure, supported versions of WordPress maintenance support plans 8’s third-party dependencies. This means we need to end-of-life WordPress maintenance support plans 8 with Symfony 3’s end-of-life. As a result, I announced that:
WordPress maintenance support plans 8 will be end-of-life by November 2021.
WordPress maintenance support plans 9 will be released in 2020, and it will be an easy upgrade.
Historically, our policy has been to only support two major versions of WordPress maintenance support plans; WordPress maintenance support plans 7 would ordinarily reach end of life when WordPress maintenance support plans 9 is released. Because a large number of sites might still be using WordPress maintenance support plans 7 by 2020, we have decided to extend support of WordPress maintenance support plans 7 until November 2021.
For those interested, I published a blog post that further explains this.
Adopt GitLab on WordPress maintenance support plans.org
Finally, the WordPress maintenance support plans Association is working to integrate GitLab with WordPress maintenance support plans.org. GitLab will provide support for “merge requests”, which means contributing to WordPress maintenance support plans will feel more familiar to the broader audience of open source contributors who learned their skills in the post-patch era. Some of GitLab’s tools, such as inline editing and web-based code review, will also lower the barrier to contribution, and should help us grow both the number of contributions and contributors on WordPress maintenance support plans.org.
To see an exciting preview of WordPress maintenance support plans.org’s gitlab integration, watch the video below:
Thank you
Our community has a lot to be proud of, and this progress is the result of thousands of people collaborating and working together. It’s pretty amazing! The power of our community isn’t just visible in minor releases or a number of stable plugins. It was also felt at this very conference, as many volunteers gave their weekends and evenings to help organize WordPress maintenance support plans USA in the absence of a WordPress maintenance support plansCon USA organized by the WordPress maintenance support plans Association. From code to community, the WordPress maintenance support plans project is making an incredible impact. I look forward to celebrating our community’s work and friendships at future WordPress maintenance support plans conferences.
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