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Transforming the WordPress Terrain

Considering Thailand lies right in Central Asia, WordCamp Asia hosted their first meetup in Bangkok!

WordPress and the Five for the Future Initiative

Focus on ‘Five for the Future’, for consistent growth of open source WordPress development with increased web security and platform integration!

WordPress Goes Virtual and Blocks Go Beyond

Events were limited to virtual WordCamps across the world due to COVID-19 pandemic.

Matt Mullenweg Demystified Gutenberg Blocks covering the symbiosis of Blocks, Patterns & Theme.json along with Rich Tabor. Additionally, Understanding React/Javascript for the future of emerging five years of WordPress development.

WordPress Around the World and the Gutenberg Launch

WordCamps ran across San Francisco, Miami, London, Brisbane, and Mumbai.

Gutenberg scheduled to go Core in WordPress 5.0, after the WordCamp 2018 in Belgrade, Serbia! With further focus on REST API, Gutenberg groundwork assimilation, Autosaves & Search, Version 2.0 of WP-CLI with 2 new releases in July. Integration with Calypso.

WordPress and the Future of Editing, Coding and E-commerce

Multiple scheduled events across Paris, Nashville, Berlin, Kuala Lumpur and Belgrade!

Nelio will be contributing to WordPress 4.9 code! Matt Mullenweg’s “The Gutenberg Project”. Upcoming effects of WooCommerce plugin platform

WordPress and the Future of Web Development, Security and SEO

WordCamps took place in various locations, including San Francisco, Philadelphia, Vienna, Tokyo, Mexico City, and Bangkok.

Matt Mullenweg Interview opinion, “WordPress has the potential of becoming an actual operating system”.

Leading topic ‘Web security business development’, and ‘How SEO today must be “Holistic SEO”’.

Rhys Wynne spoke on ‘Top Tools for WordPress SEO to use as Well as Yoast Stuff’ along with useful tools in SEO work including, Majestic, SERPlab, and AnswerThePublic. Rhys also mentioned HARO (help a reporter out), CrystalKnows.com, The PageFrog plugin, Facebook Instant Articles (FBIA), and Google Accelerated Mobile Pages (AMP).

WordPress and the REST API Revolution

The camps grew, with events held in cities like San Francisco, New York City, London, Mumbai, Buenos Aires, and Seoul.

WordPress community’s hottest topics, the REST API discussed! Ryan unwrapped the basic concepts about REST API followed by how to implement this API into WordPress works wonders!

Adam Silverstein, introduced Backbone, a JavaScript library, which facilitates creating faster and more interactive user interfaces!

Adrian Zumbrunnen, Pascal Birchler, and Bryce Adams spoke about the radical, ‘FrontKit’.

WordPress in Different Cultures and Browsers

WordCamps were held in numerous cities, including San Francisco, Seattle, Paris, Cologne, Cape Town, and Tokyo. Highlighted using BrowserSync instead of LiveReload, when developing front end elements. Improve WordPress site JavaScript performance using Object Literal, Immediately Invoked Function Expressions (IIFE), and jQuery plugins.

The Year of WordPress Innovation with JetPack and Cart66

WordCamps worldwide including San Francisco, Miami, Austin, Sofia, Sydney, and Manila.

George Stephanis, from Automattic, shared JetPack plug-in suite, which includes rich analytics, specific to WordPress, further bolstered by Google Analytics!

Hot buzz, about ‘Google+’; Lee Blue, from ‘Cart66’, & his team developed ‘Cart66’ for WordPress, as a single-solution plugin for e- commerce, which visually integrates with existing WordPress web site.

The 5th Anniversary of WordPress Conferences

Marks the 5th anniversary of WordCamp. WordCamps organized in San Francisco, Chicago, Seattle, London, Montreal, and Melbourne.

WordPress Goes Social, Ethical and Educational

WordCamps expanded across San Francisco, New York City, London, Vancouver, Buenos Aires, and Cape Town.

Social Media powered by WordPress, Blogging Ethics, Google University Talk.

A Year of Growth, Innovation and Education

University of British Columbia & University of Calgary announced launching a hosted blog service for their student community. The Discovery Channel has an “educator network”.

Matt’s State of the Word, the testing of the new WordPress interface named “Crazyhorse”, and usability issues and marketing with Kathy Sierra.

Raised money for ‘826 Valencia’, an organization, offering free educational programs for encouraging students to improve their writing skills.

WordCamp Goes Global: From San Francisco to Beijing

John C. Dvorak and Om Malik tackled the myth of journalism. Matt Cutts of Google helped dispel a lot of SEO and PageRank myths. Podcasting master Dan Kuykendall, the author of PodPress WordPress Plugin, shared insights about adding multimedia to blogs. Also, the first WordCamp outside San Francisco, was held in Beijing in September 2007.

The Origins of WordCamp: San Francisco

The first-ever WordCamp was organized in San Francisco, California gathering over 500 people, organized by Matt Mullenweg, the co- founder of WordPress. In the first-ever workshop, Mark Riley the WordPress community. Mark Jaquith orated on WordPress as a CMS, leading requested discussion topics.