Coming up on your favorite five minutes of WordPress. The round up of roundups, how to skip the line when submitting plugins to wordpress.org and building plugins with AI, all that more on the WP minute. your favorite five minutes of WordPress starts now, Joseph A. Hayden chump OSI. C,
I'm about to start, pretty soon, my tenth year working with this project, and it has been an absolute honor to serve these past four years as your executive director.
but Titus Ventura, Matt Mullenweg, and team hosted the state of the word 2023 in Madrid this week, delivering a familiar presentation. We've come to appreciate over the years. Ventura continues to take the role of WordPress product lead with his demonstration of what Gutenberg and site editing has achieved over the past year with a nod to the future.
I want to touch a bit on the, how we conceive Gutenberg as an editor, because it's aiming to do two things extremely well. So it's a very challenging, design effort. one is as a writing environment, and the other one is as a design tool. We've been making a lot of progress on simplifying the writing experience. Even though this was technically part of phase one, we continue to add, writing flow improvements.
One standout feature I'm looking forward to are the enhancements to custom field compatibility. As dynamic content within template editing. My biggest takeaway. However, was Matt mullenweg's. Legs announcement of the data liberation initiative.
So, what I'm excited to announce for 2024, as a focus area that we will be doing in parallel to Phase 3 of Gutenberg, is what we're calling, uh, Data Liberation. So, if you notice a common thread in all of our projects, it's around everything we do with open source is around data ownership and freedom. In 2024, we want to unlock the web. Uh, through a dedicated focus on migration tools.
Milan wake portrays the project as a signal to the open web. And ease of data portability. A tasteful slate of hand to see the increased adoption of WordPress from users, leaving closed platforms, in my opinion. Overall, I think it's a positive direction for the platform as someone that just had to home cook and migration workflow from just a simple open source ghost website to wordpress.com. I welcome new tools for this use case.
One thing that took me by surprise plugin authors waiting in lines longer than TSA checkpoints during the holiday season could see their plugins reviewed on wordpress.org in 24 hours or less. If you're building something for the data liberation collection of tools.
You might have noticed as well that there's a little bit of a backlog for registering new plugins. I believe right now we have a 79 day delay to add things to the directory. So we are also ensuring that for every new one of these projects If you apply to start one of these, it's going to be reviewed in about one business day. So these will be able to start almost immediately.
A good opportunity for those of you wanting to get into plugin development and a lump of coal. For those of you standing in line still. If you're in listen only mode. Don't forget to check out the post for a special Roundup of state of the word. Roundups. Here are some of those links right now. Right here at the WP minute, we had a recap plus audio and transcripts of the event. Courtney Robertson shares her breakdown on GoDaddy's blog. Devin Walker has a 10 minute recap on his YouTube channel.
Sorry, Devin. It's still too many minutes. Anonymization volunteered a very bias recap of the event on WP Tavern. And wordpress.org has a nice landing page of state of the word 2023 YouTube embed plus past events. Check that out. If you want to see more. And Yost the volcano was in attendance and shared his excitement on post status. Now it's time for those important links that you don't want to miss this week.
Speaking of Matt Mullenweg, he talked to tech crunch about what's next for texts.com under his ownership still surprises me that reporters don't fully grasp the.com versus.org still. One of the longest running podcasts networks, covering tech announced cutbacks this week, state of the enterprise or state of enterprise WordPress 2023 survey results are out. Tom McFarland pontificates about the future of WordPress admin. Theme team is setting new requirements for onboarding features in themes.
The Pascal burglar shows off some advancements he's making with blocks in media handling. Video of the week, this week, join me and code wp.ai, founder James law page. As we discuss AI's involvement in WordPress, plus a demo of him building plugins on his platform. That's going to air next Thursday. At 12:00 PM Eastern, make sure you go to youtube.com/at WP minute, subscribe to the channel and thumbs up that video. Cause you'll be able to see that live. Next week.