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State of the Word 2021
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123 minutes
Released:
Dec 15, 2021
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State of the Word 2021 just concluded in NYC.
Just over 2 hours of updates around the community, the software, and the vision of Matt Mullenweg. This episode is an entire recording of the livestream broadcast over YouTube including audience + listener questions.
If you enjoy content like this, please consider giving back to WordPress or donating to this publication.
Episode Transcript
oh, but really, really, um, welcome to everyone. Thank you all for being here. This is very exciting. Um, I am excited to see all your faces. It's been many years since I've seen some of you, um, in case you have not noticed we are changing our hashtag this year. It is state of the word written out, but remember to do your capitalization for people using reading.
Assistive technologies, readers, screen readers. I got it. Uh, there is going to be a Q and a portion after this. It will be here from our live audience, but also some folks at home. Um, uh, he's the at-home portion for us right now. So if you have any questions, get them ready. If you're here, there's a microphone here that you will be able to ask your questions at.
Or if you are watching at home, you can head on over to the YouTube embed of this, uh, live stream. And we are monitoring the chat there for questions as well. Um, that is all that I have to say. Um, and I think that's probably all that you want to hear from me anyway. And so tonight giving our annual state of the word where we talk about everything we've done this year and everything we hope to do next year is of course WordPress project.
Co-founder Matt Mullenweg.
Wow. Wow. We're really here. So, uh, welcome everybody. And I've been told to ask if folks over here can just move up one row. Um, if you don't mind where we're going to try to fill out the front and bed that. This is so exciting and so honestly fulfilling to be together again. Oh yeah. I guess everyone's starting to cascade
for those joining us live. We are here in New York city. It is, the sun is setting. We've got a few invited community members from all of the world. Thank you all for coming.
We had people joined by plane, train and automobile. How long was the train ride? Two and a half day train ride to get here. So that is definitely the most interesting. I actually am also came a, probably a two and a half day trip, but all the way from Antarctica. So if you notice a little bit of a raccoon tan, that was because I had very strong sunglasses and I guess not strong enough sunblock as that's me have some penguins.
And while there I read a lot of books and learned a lot about Antarctica and one that particularly stood out actually a leader who's inspired me for a long time was Ernest Shackleton. And I knew a lot about his endurance journey where ship crashed or got stuck. And then they sent back. Basically they saved every person who was on that journey, but a story I didn't know about him, which I learned about was.
Journey's to the south pole. He turned away only 97 miles away from reaching the pole, which is pretty darn close if you've ever tried to get, I think I flew, like if you add it all up, like almost 7,000 miles back. So the turnaround of the last 97 and actually as this was happening, as I was reading about this, I was thinking about the version 5.9 release.
So you might know that today was a scheduled or right around today was the scheduled originally scheduled date for the WordPress 5.9 release. And we made a very, very unusual decision for WordPress to delay that release for about a month. So we're going to release it in January, but it felt like we were so close and we decided to turn around.
And, but very, I believe it was entirel
Just over 2 hours of updates around the community, the software, and the vision of Matt Mullenweg. This episode is an entire recording of the livestream broadcast over YouTube including audience + listener questions.
If you enjoy content like this, please consider giving back to WordPress or donating to this publication.
Episode Transcript
oh, but really, really, um, welcome to everyone. Thank you all for being here. This is very exciting. Um, I am excited to see all your faces. It's been many years since I've seen some of you, um, in case you have not noticed we are changing our hashtag this year. It is state of the word written out, but remember to do your capitalization for people using reading.
Assistive technologies, readers, screen readers. I got it. Uh, there is going to be a Q and a portion after this. It will be here from our live audience, but also some folks at home. Um, uh, he's the at-home portion for us right now. So if you have any questions, get them ready. If you're here, there's a microphone here that you will be able to ask your questions at.
Or if you are watching at home, you can head on over to the YouTube embed of this, uh, live stream. And we are monitoring the chat there for questions as well. Um, that is all that I have to say. Um, and I think that's probably all that you want to hear from me anyway. And so tonight giving our annual state of the word where we talk about everything we've done this year and everything we hope to do next year is of course WordPress project.
Co-founder Matt Mullenweg.
Wow. Wow. We're really here. So, uh, welcome everybody. And I've been told to ask if folks over here can just move up one row. Um, if you don't mind where we're going to try to fill out the front and bed that. This is so exciting and so honestly fulfilling to be together again. Oh yeah. I guess everyone's starting to cascade
for those joining us live. We are here in New York city. It is, the sun is setting. We've got a few invited community members from all of the world. Thank you all for coming.
We had people joined by plane, train and automobile. How long was the train ride? Two and a half day train ride to get here. So that is definitely the most interesting. I actually am also came a, probably a two and a half day trip, but all the way from Antarctica. So if you notice a little bit of a raccoon tan, that was because I had very strong sunglasses and I guess not strong enough sunblock as that's me have some penguins.
And while there I read a lot of books and learned a lot about Antarctica and one that particularly stood out actually a leader who's inspired me for a long time was Ernest Shackleton. And I knew a lot about his endurance journey where ship crashed or got stuck. And then they sent back. Basically they saved every person who was on that journey, but a story I didn't know about him, which I learned about was.
Journey's to the south pole. He turned away only 97 miles away from reaching the pole, which is pretty darn close if you've ever tried to get, I think I flew, like if you add it all up, like almost 7,000 miles back. So the turnaround of the last 97 and actually as this was happening, as I was reading about this, I was thinking about the version 5.9 release.
So you might know that today was a scheduled or right around today was the scheduled originally scheduled date for the WordPress 5.9 release. And we made a very, very unusual decision for WordPress to delay that release for about a month. So we're going to release it in January, but it felt like we were so close and we decided to turn around.
And, but very, I believe it was entirel
Released:
Dec 15, 2021
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