1. Road to Platform

2. 10 years
21.6%

3. 21
67
major
releases
point
releases

4. 21
67
major
releases
point
releases
27,891
changesets

5. 21
67
major
releases
point
releases
27,892
changesets
contributors in 3.8
188

6. Backwards
Compatibility

7. Admin
Redesign

8. Automatic
Updates

9. Audio
Video

10. Media
Library

11. 69%
20%
6%
7%
CMS
Blog/CMS
Blog
App Platform

12. WordPress is easy to use
as an App Platform
— Nobody, Ever

14. develop.svn.wordpress.org

15. develop.svn.wordpress.org
*.git.wordpress.org

16. A Build Process

17. $ grunt cssmin

18. $ grunt cssmin
$ grunt sass

19. Color
Schemes

20. $ grunt cssmin
$ grunt sass
$ grunt autoprefixer

21. $ grunt cssmin
$ grunt sass
$ grunt autoprefixer
$ grunt cssjanus

22. $ grunt cssmin
$ grunt sass
$ grunt autoprefixer
$ grunt cssjanus
$ grunt jshint

23. $ grunt cssmin
$ grunt sass
$ grunt autoprefixer
$ grunt cssjanus
$ grunt jshint
$ grunt uglify

24. $ grunt cssmin
$ grunt sass
$ grunt autoprefixer
$ grunt cssjanus
$ grunt jshint
$ grunt uglify
$ grunt imagemin

25. $ grunt watch

26. $ grunt watch
$ grunt phpunit

27. $ grunt watch
$ grunt phpunit
$ grunt qunit

28. $ grunt watch
$ grunt phpunit
$ grunt qunit
$ grunt patch

29. Gruntfile.js

30. Unit Testing Like a Pro

31. Features
as Plugins

32. developer.wordpress.org

33. Focuses
Components
Notifications

34. Where are we going?

35. Better Tools
for Developers

36. Better Tools
for Developers
More
Contributors



37. Better Tools
for Developers
More
Contributors


Better
APIs

38. Automatic
Updates

39. Automatic
Updates
Shorter Release
Cycles



40. Automatic
Updates
Shorter Release
Cycles


Backwards
Compatibility

41. A robust application
development platform

42. Shorter Release Cycles
A simple blogging tool

43. April 2014
3.9

44. Widgets Customizer

45. TinyMCE 4.0

46. TinyMCE Views

47. Improved Image Editing

48. Theme Install UX

49. Audio/Video Playlists

50. Under
the Hood
Updated libraries

51. Under
the Hood
Updated libraries
mysqli_* support

52. Under
the Hood
Updated libraries
mysqli_* support
HTML5 galleries & captions

53. Under
the Hood
Updated libraries
mysqli_* support
HTML5 galleries & captions
Symlinked plugins

54. Under
the Hood
Updated libraries
mysqli_* support
HTML5 galleries & captions
Symlinked plugins
has_image_size() & remove_image_size()

55. Under
the Hood
Updated libraries
mysqli_* support
HTML5 galleries & captions
Symlinked plugins
has_image_size() & remove_image_size()
Crop anchors for add_image_size()

56. Under
the Hood
Updated libraries
mysqli_* support
HTML5 galleries & captions
Symlinked plugins
has_image_size() & remove_image_size()
Crop anchors for add_image_size()
doing_filter() & doing_action()

57. Under
the Hood
Updated libraries
mysqli_* support
HTML5 galleries & captions
Symlinked plugins
has_image_size() & remove_image_size()
Crop anchors for add_image_size()
doing_filter() & doing_action()
600% faster wptexturize()

58. Under
the Hood
Updated libraries
mysqli_* support
HTML5 galleries & captions
Symlinked plugins
has_image_size() & remove_image_size()
Crop anchors for add_image_size()
doing_filter() & doing_action()
600% faster wptexturize()
Unit tests & docs

59. 4.0 – August 2014
4.1 – December 2014

60. JSON API

61. Frontend Editing

62. make.wordpress.org