State of the Word 2022 has just completed another hybrid presentation.



A mix of livestream on the official WordPress YouTube channel and in-person attendees traveled to NYC to watch Matt Mullenweg and others update us on all things WordPress. We'll cover some of the highlights in today's post. Tune in to listen to the complete recording of the event on our podcast or in the player above.



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Key takeaways




Gutenberg will be bigger than WordPress itself. To mobile apps and the web.



bbPress forms now have Gutenberg



Using Blocks Everywhere plugin. Will be embedded in BuddyPress.



PEW Research using Gutenberg



Day One App using Gutenberg in web app



Mobile Gutenberg is dual-licensed GPL & MPL



Tumblr using Gutenberg



500 meetups doubled their events in 2022



1 WordCamp in 2021 to 22 in 2022



Community Summit is coming back



WordPress is turning 20 next year



Doing a new 10 year update to the "Milestones Book"



12,000 People took a Learn.WordPress course



New blog and showcase pages on WordPress.org bringing Jazz design languages over



22 million images. 1.1 million audio files. OpenVerse scours the web for Creative Commons images & other media. Now launched audio."Not fully embedded into WordPress yet"



Create themes just using blocks & style variations



We're at the end of Phase 2 of Gutenberg initial development



Create block theme "plugin" allows you to make themes from blocks



Zen mode is a new writing experience



Showing off "locked-in patterns." A way for consultants to pass sites off to clients.



1399 Release contributors



New core contributors to WordPress. "Think of them like the Wikipedia super-editors"



WordPress is what it is because of community



"Think of WordPress.org as an App Store for WordPress"



Matt likes to think of the community as fractal



Allow theme & plugin developers to self-identify as what their project goals are through a new taxonomy. Will be launching this month.



Phase 3 Gutenberg: Collaboration. Improvements for editorial workflows. Also bringing in OpenVerse.



Share your experience with the WordPress 2022 survey



Matt was excited about OpenAI and Stable Diffusion



WordPress Playground. A way to experience the entirety of the WordPress stack in the browser, without installing dependencies. 100% in the browser using web assembly.



How can we make WordPress that is a gift to the world for decades to come?



"WordPress belongs to all of us, but really we're taking care of it for the next generation."




Important links




wordpress.tumblr.com



Engineawesome.com using Gutenberg



communitysummit.wordpress.org/2023



WP20.wordpress.net



learn.wordpress.org



wordpress.org/openverse



https://wordpress.org/plugins/create-block-theme/



Make.wordpress.org



https://developer.wordpress.org/playground