AUSTIN, Texas—March 13, 2023—As a proud WordPress know-how firm, WP Engine has introduced WordPress Co-founder and Automattic CEO Matt Mullenweg and Gutenberg Lead Architect Matías Ventura will be part of its annual digital developer convention, DE{CODE}, on March 21 and 23, 2023. DE{CODE} will likely be broadcast in three world time zones and anticipates over 5,000 attendees in its fourth 12 months, launching in 2020.

“We’re really honored to welcome Matt and Matías to DE{CODE},” stated WP Engine Chairwoman and CEO Heather Brunner. “Since its inception, DE{CODE} has all the time been about inspiring the WordPress neighborhood, and who higher to assist us do this than the pioneers and innovators of WordPress itself!”

Becoming a member of the lineup of keynote periods introduced final week, Mullenweg and Ventura will lend their imaginative and prescient and voice to DE{CODE} 2023, specializing in the way forward for WordPress and the speedy improvements within the block editor relied upon by hundreds of thousands of WordPress builders worldwide.

“As WordPress nears its twentieth anniversary, it’s humbling to witness the extent of adoption it has achieved inside our thriving world neighborhood,” Mullenweg shared. “We’re excited to assist have fun this milestone anniversary by collaborating in DE{CODE} the place we hope to encourage attendees to assist us construct the way forward for WordPress collectively.”

Mullenweg and Ventura’s session will discover the unconventional tempo of innovation immediately, present digital developments together with thrilling developments like generative AI, and what the following 20 years holds for WordPress inside this paradigm. Mullenweg will share reflections on the drivers of WordPress’ success and what’s mandatory to keep up a free and open net whereas Ventura will supply his imaginative and prescient for the WordPress block editor.

WordPress Details

• WordPress celebrates its 20-year anniversary on Could 27, 2023.
• WordPress is essentially the most adopted content material administration system (CMS) on the planet, with 43% of all websites globally powered by WordPress. [W3Techs]
• WordPress can also be the fastest-growing CMS on the planet. Out of the highest 10 million web sites by site visitors, greater than 500 are constructed every day utilizing WordPress.
• Launched in 2018 (with WordPress 5.0), the Gutenberg or block editor represents a big shift away from the traditional WYSIWYG (pronounced wiz-ee-wig) editor and in the direction of a extra modular or component-based modifying expertise.
• The Website Editor makes use of the block mannequin to create an modifying expertise that goes past submit or web page content material—making a whole web site customizable with no code required.
• The WordPress Sample Listing options a variety of patterns—collections of predefined block layouts—that WordPress customers can leverage as a fast, high-quality place to begin for constructing their websites.
• The WordPress Plugin Repository now contains greater than 60,000 free plugins offering WordPress customers with nearly-limitless choices for personalisation and added performance.
• The WordPress Theme Repository offers WordPress customers with greater than 10,000 free themes they’ll use as the muse for his or her web sites, providing responsive themes, Search engine marketing-ready, and great-looking, proper out of the field.
• WordPress can also be a big generator of earnings. Customers who work with WordPress greater than 15 hours per week derive practically half of their earnings (48%) from it.

DE{CODE} Convention Details:

• DE{CODE} launched in 2020 as an internet neighborhood and academic house for WordPress builders of all ability ranges to proceed honing their craft.
• DE{CODE} has skilled exponential development because it launched.
• 2023’s all-virtual occasion anticipates over 5,000 attendees this 12 months.
• WP Engine Founder, and Chief Innovation Officer, Jason Cohen will kick off DE{CODE} 2023 with a keynote session on the way in which know-how has formed the ability dynamic between designers, builders, and entrepreneurs.
• Matt Mullenweg and Matías Ventura will likely be current to talk reside with world individuals throughout their dialogue.
• WP Engine Director of Product Administration, Jason Konen may even current a keynote session, “Leveraging Atlas To Go Past What You Thought Was Potential With Headless”
• Register for DE{CODE} at https://occasions.wpengine.com/DECODE2023

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