the state of wordpress in government
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Listen and learn as Peter Slutsky, the Director of Platform Services at Automattic/WordPress.com, provides the history and present state of WordPress, WordPress.com, WordPress.com VIP and discusses the growth and momentum taking place in Government.TRANSCRIPT
WordPressPeter SlutskyDirector of Platform ServicesAutomattic
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The WordPress EcosystemSelf-hosted
• Runs on your servers
• Complete control over the code and experience
• “With great power comes great responsibility”
WordPress.com• Largest WordPress
site in the world• Self-service + easy
setup• SaaS: we run the
infrastructure
VIP• Best of both worlds• All of the benefits of
WordPress.com + ability to run your own custom code
• Support and collaboration with VIP’s team of engineers
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• Founded in 2005 to create a new generation of online publishing tools.
• Products include WordPress.com, WordPress.com VIP, Akismet, VaultPress, VideoPress, and more.
• 170+ employees around the globe, providing 24/7 user and systems support.
• Our products reach over half a billion people every month
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Core Philosophy
Rapid iteration:
3 major releases every year + easy
upgrades
Extensible: customize via themes and
plugins
Robust APIs: easily integrate
with other services
Open: you own your data and
code
WordPress:simple and elegant,
but also powerful and flexible
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Most Popular CMS on the Web
22% of all new,active domains
100,000 new WordPresses
every day
+60 million WordPress websites
Huge communityof service providers,
web hosts, developers, designers, etc.+25k plugins,
+1500 themes
Powers 18+%of the web
= 1 in 6 websites
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WordPress: Enterprise CMS
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Blog Platform vs. CMS• Customize Data: you decide what your data looks like• Multi-Author: flexible roles and permissions• Multisite: run ‘N’ websites on a single codebase and user
system
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Integration• APIs: XML-RPC and REST• Plugins: Active Directory/LDAP, Salesforce, Adobe
SiteCatalyst, Brightcove, and thousands more• Social: Twitter, Facebook, Tumblr, LinkedIn, and more• VIP Featured Partner Program
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Scalability• Highly scalable in terms of traffic and volume• Built-in Caching, developer tools for further optimization• WordPress.com:• 4 billion page views/month• 500k posts every day• 400k comments every day• Single install of WordPress
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Security• Thousands of organizations with a vested interest in
making WordPress secure• Highly secure: full code reviews by core team, and
testing by US government, financial institutions, etc.• Upgrades make it easy to always be running the latest
and greatest WordPress• VaultPress: realtime back-ups and security monitoring
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Mobile• WordPress apps for all major mobile devices• Responsive Design• Mobile-optimized themes• Power your apps with WordPress
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WordPress.com VIP Services• Support and cloud hosting for enterprise WordPress sites• High availability: thousands of servers, 12 data centers• Full code reviews for optimization and security feedback• Unlimited 24/7 support for critical issues• Unlimited support for code review / best practices / advice on
plugins as part of VIP Developer Support• Unlimited traffic, unlimited bandwidth, and unlimited storage,
including our CDN
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Spotlight: Government
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Spotlight: Media
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Peter SlutskyTITLE: Director of Platform Services
EMAIL: [email protected]: 215-913-0403TWITTER: @pslutsky
WEBSITE: www.vip.wordpress.com
Thanks!
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