State of the Phrase 2024 Video + Recap

On Dec. 16, WordPress co-founder Matt Mullenweg, Lead Architect Matías Ventura, and Government Director Mary Hubbard have been joined by WordPress group member Junko Nukaga to mirror on all issues WordPress at Tokyo Node Corridor in Tokyo, Japan. The venue offered the right location for the annual occasion, which was held for the primary time exterior of america.

After delivering the night’s keynote, Matt, Matias, and Mary have been joined by distinguished friends together with writer and poet Mieko Kawakami, Issues Develop into Different Issues writer Craig Mod, mgn CEO Hajime Ogushi, and SAKURA Web Inc. Senior Director Genki Taniguchi. The gifted pianist Aiko Takei additionally carried out in the course of the introduction and intermission. 

If you happen to missed the livestream, you possibly can watch the complete occasion beneath:

Highlights from 2024

2024 was a busy 12 months for the WordPress undertaking. Listed here are some notably noteworthy moments and milestones that Matt, Matias, and Mary mirrored upon from the occasion stage:

• WordPress is rising in Japan (and past). Our favourite open-source CMS at the moment powers 43.6% of all web sites all over the world, and has a CMS share of 62.3%. In Japan, it powers 58.5% of all web sites and maintains a 83% CMS share. 
• The worldwide group is rising too. WordPress websites utilizing languages apart from English are anticipated to surpass English language websites by 2025. 
• It’s all about extensibility. WordPress customers downloaded plugins 2.35 billion occasions in 2024. Customers can set up plugins on the Marketing strategy and above. 
• Writing and designing with WordPress has by no means been simpler. An improved distraction-free mode supplies a cleaner expertise when writing within the editor. Because of the brand new zoom-out view, you should utilize patterns with out organising every single block. 
• Enhancements for builders and builders. The Templates API streamlines registering and managing customized templates, whereas WordPress Playground grew to become much more helpful because of an improved Github integration.  
• Much more free-to-use visible and audio content material. Openverse, a free software that makes it simple to seek out open-licensed and public area works, grew to 884 million photographs and 4.2 million audio recordsdata. Discover ways to use Openverse straight in WordPress.com.

WordPress in Japan

WordPress is flourishing all all over the world, thanks partly to the beneficiant help and contributions of the Japanese WordPress group. Listed here are just a few key highlights and enjoyable information:

• Japan was the primary nation to localize WordPress, because of a discussion board publish from the person Otsukare. 
• Wapuu, WordPress’s lovable mascot, was created by internet designer and illustrator Kazuko Kaneuchi. You’ll be able to be taught all about Wapuu (and even purchase Wapuu merchandise) at wapu.us.
• The favored varieties plugin Contact Type 7, created by Japanese developer Takayuki Miyoshi, reached 10 million downloads in 2024. You’ll be able to observe Miyoshi’s weblog (which is hosted on WordPress.com) at ideasilo.wordpress.com.
• The Japanese WordPress group hosted 189 meetups in 2024. Discover WordPress meetups in your space or discover ways to begin your individual meetup.

Q&A session

It wouldn’t be State of the Phrase and not using a question-and-answer phase. Viewers members (together with Tokyo Vice writer Jake Adelstein) sparked partaking conversations round subjects that included:

• What open social platforms like Bluesky and Mastodon imply for internet publishers.
• How will AI proceed to impression SEO sooner or later.
• Why web sites are nonetheless related (and why it’s necessary to personal your on-line dwelling)

And far more. You’ll be able to watch the complete session beneath: