WP Engine‘s virtual developer conference DE{CODE} 2023 just wrapped up, but that doesn’t mean you have to miss out on the insightful content! You can still register for free today and get the entire conference on demand.
Let’s dive into some of the great content you can access right now.
Learn at DE{CODE}
The conference is packed with expert-led talks for any skill level. Whether you’re interested in headless, privacy, or security, there is something for you.
WP Engine CIO and Founder, Jason Cohen, tackles How Technology has Shaped the Power Dynamics Between Designers, Developers, and Marketers. Cohen looks back on the last 20 years of WordPress and where technology might lead us in the next 20.
Advanced Custom Fields users will get even more use out of the plugin with 7 Things You Didn’t Know You Could Do with Advanced Custom Fields. Iain Poulson, Senior Product Manager at WP Engine and Rob Stinson, Product Marketing Manager and WP Engine will highlight their seven favorite “hidden” features.
20 Years of WordPress
One of the most notable talks was a fireside chat with WordPress co-founder and Automattic CEO, Matt Mullenweg and Matías Ventura, Lead Architect of Gutenberg; Developer Experience Team at Automattic.
WP Engine VP of Marketing Monica Cravotta moderated the chat kicking things off with a question about the lasting power of WordPress considering the upcoming 20 year anniversary.
“For one thing, it’s shared ownership. You own WordPress as much as I do. Because of this we were able to bring together this community of people who like working on it,” Mullenweg said. “The story of WordPress is the community. It’s not just the code, it’s the ecosystem around it.”
Mullenweg continued saying it is the responsibility of all WordPress developers to make sure the user experience remains excellent. Making WordPress the default and easy choice will create more open source defenders, and eventually lead to powering 85 percent of the web.
Beyond WordPress
In Mullenweg’s State of the Word address in 2022, he stated that Gutenberg could one day be bigger than WordPress. He imagines a world where some day any site can adopt Gutenberg architecture even without using WordPress.
Ventura spoke to how we’ve already seen non-WordPress users design entire sites just using blocks.
“We’re seeing designers who haven’t touched code at all be able to express and share their creations using Gutenberg,” he said. “What I really want to see is that expansion of catering to all the facets of human creativity and expression and I think all these tools speak to that.”
Mullenweg agreed saying, “We are aiming to build something for humanity, for the web, not just for the WordPress community.”
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