AUSTIN, Texas—March 13, 2023—As a happy WordPress technology business, WP Engine has announced WordPress Co-founder and Automattic CEO Matt Mullenweg and Gutenberg Guide Architect Matías Ventura will join its annual digital developer meeting, DECODE, on March 21 and 23, 2023. DECODE will be broadcast in a few global time zones and anticipates over 5,000 attendees in its fourth yr, launching in 2020.
“We are truly honored to welcome Matt and Matías to DECODE,” explained WP Engine Chairwoman and CEO Heather Brunner. “Since its inception, DECODE has usually been about inspiring the WordPress neighborhood, and who much better to enable us do that than the pioneers and innovators of WordPress by itself!”
Becoming a member of the lineup of keynote classes declared final week, Mullenweg and Ventura will lend their eyesight and voice to DECODE 2023, focusing on the future of WordPress and the fast innovations in the block editor relied upon by thousands and thousands of WordPress developers worldwide.
“As WordPress nears its 20th anniversary, it is humbling to witness the level of adoption it has obtained in our flourishing worldwide group,” Mullenweg shared. “We’re thrilled to support celebrate this milestone anniversary by taking part in DECODE in which we hope to inspire attendees to assistance us make the long run of WordPress with each other.”
Mullenweg and Ventura’s session will discover the radical pace of innovation nowadays, recent electronic traits such as thrilling developments like generative AI, and what the next 20 many years holds for WordPress in just this paradigm. Mullenweg will share reflections on the motorists of WordPress’ achievement and what is required to maintain a no cost and open up website though Ventura will give his vision for the WordPress block editor.
WordPress Information
- WordPress celebrates its 20-yr anniversary on Might 27, 2023.
- WordPress is the most adopted information administration system (CMS) in the world, with 43% of all websites globally driven by WordPress. [W3Techs]
- WordPress is also the swiftest-growing CMS in the world. Out of the best 10 million internet websites by visitors, a lot more than 500 are crafted every working day working with WordPress.
- Introduced in 2018 (with WordPress 5.), the Gutenberg or block editor represents a significant change away from the traditional WYSIWYG (pronounced wiz-ee-wig) editor and towards a more modular or part-centered modifying knowledge.
- The Web page Editor makes use of the block model to generate an enhancing experience that goes outside of submit or webpage content—making an overall internet site customizable with no code needed.
- The WordPress Pattern Directory attributes a wide assortment of patterns—collections of predefined block layouts—that WordPress customers can leverage as a rapid, superior-top quality starting level for constructing their websites.
- The WordPress Plugin Repository now includes additional than 60,000 no cost plugins offering WordPress customers with almost-limitless selections for customization and extra operation.
- The WordPress Theme Repository gives WordPress users with much more than 10,000 totally free themes they can use as the basis for their internet sites, supplying responsive themes, Seo-completely ready, and good-looking, proper out of the box.
- WordPress is also a substantial generator of revenue. People who do the job with WordPress much more than 15 hrs for each 7 days derive practically 50 % of their revenue (48%) from it.
DECODE Conference Information:
- DECODE released in 2020 as an on the internet local community and academic place for WordPress developers of all skill concentrations to carry on honing their craft.
- DECODE has skilled exponential advancement considering the fact that it launched.
- 2023’s all-virtual celebration anticipates around 5,000 attendees this yr.
- WP Engine Founder, and Main Innovation Officer, Jason Cohen will kick off DECODE 2023 with a keynote session on the way know-how has formed the ability dynamic between designers, developers, and marketers.
- Matt Mullenweg and Matías Ventura will be existing to chat dwell with world individuals for the duration of their discussion.
- WP Motor Director of Products Administration, Jason Konen will also existing a keynote session, “Leveraging Atlas To Go Further than What You Considered Was Achievable With Headless”
- Sign up for DECODE at https://events.wpengine.com/DECODE2023
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