The WordPress year is off to an exciting start! Read about the State of the Word event in December, get first insights into the upcoming major WordPress release as well as exciting WordPress events coming up – of course Greyd will be there!
State of the Word
The annual “State of the Word” event took place in Tokyo in December. Traditionally, Matt Mullenweg not only shared interesting facts and updates about WordPress at the event. The host country Japan also played a major role. Among other things, the official WordPress mascot Wapuu was created here.
WordPress Statistics
- 43.6% of all websites are based on WordPress. The share of the CMS market is 62.3%
- After English (50.8%) and Spanish (6.78%), German is the most widely used language (5.99%)
- Last year alone, 1,700 new themes were added to the repo – which means that the number of block themes, i.e. full site editing themes such as Greyd, has now risen to over 1,000.
Gutenberg
Gutenberg is now in phase 3 of the project: “Collaboration”. The aim of this is to enable users to work together directly in the editor, for example through commenting functions similar to those in Google Docs.
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WordCamps
This year, there will once again be three major flagship events in Europe, the USA and Asia in addition to many local and national WordCamps.
- WordCamp Asia – Manila, Philippines – February 20-22, 2025
Note for all Speedbuild fans and early birds: I will be competing live at the event against Nick Diego (Automattic) in a Speedbuild Challenge hosted by Jamie Marsland. The challenge is scheduled for February 21 at 1:00 pm local time (6 am in Germany).
- WordCamp Europe – Basel, Switzerland – June 05-07, 2025
Tickets are already available on the website. Speaker applications can also be submitted until the end of January.
WordCamp US – Portland, USA – 26.-29. August 2025
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Preparation for WP 6.8
The next major WordPress update in April is mainly focused on bug fixes and optimizations. The release team is already in place.
Tip: If you discover a bug in WordPress, make sure you report it so that it can be checked by the WordPress community and, at best, fixed directly. I will soon be publishing a detailed article on the Greyd blog about how and where you can submit bug reports and feature requests in the WordPress core.
Helpful Links:
Release Squad, Timeline & Focus
Gutenberg Repository – for everything to do with the Block & Site Editor
https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ – for all other WordPress areas
