During Matt Mullenweg’s Summer Update at WordCamp EU he listed eleven principles for guiding the future of WordPress. In this article James Giroux reviews the list and provides his take on them.

Matt Mullenweg’s keynote presentation from WordCamp Europe has been released. It has some interesting topics. The WordPress Playground got a number of mentions. Overall, one of the main take-aways is that he wants to open WordPress for more innovation and creativity.

An interesting question and answer session with WordCamp EU attendees. An interesting reveal in the Q&A is that there are some attempts to manipulate the statistics at the top, for the most popular plugins.

Today is the WordPress 21st birthday. Matt shares some general opinions about things that helped WordPress to be successful in the early days that we should hang onto today.

Here is a nice podcast interview with Matt Mullenweg and Michelle Frechette. It is pretty relaxed as Matt is on sabbatical and in a reflective mood. There is a text transcript for those who prefer.

A 2.5 hour interview with Matt Mullenweg by Tim Ferriss. A large number of topics are discussed.

Here is the 2023 State of the Word. Some interesting topics. It was helpful seeing the plan for the custom field implementation. I hadn’t been clear on that. It was also nice to see the performance improvements. It seemed like a lot of things were touched on briefly but not too much covered in depth.

Here is an interview of Matt Mullenweg with people from Nasdaq during the Silicon Slopes Summit. There is no revelation or new. information, but fans might enjoy it.

Question and Answer at WordCamp US with Matt Mullenweg and Josepha Haden Chomphosy. I like how they took the questions online.