To honor WordPress’s 20th anniversary David Bisset has a friendly chat with four prominent but cool community members to talk about some highlights in it’s history. Primary topics include: Memorial WordPress Release, a WordCamp or WordCamp Experience, and the most notable State of the Word Announcement from Matt. Guests also share other moments that stood out to them and what the future might hold.

Shownotes

Guests w/ Shared links

• Eric Karkovack
  • WordPress 1.2 "Mingus" added the plugin architecture:
    https://wordpress.org/news/2004/05/heres-the-beef/ 
  • WordCamp Philadelphia 2011 - My first WordCamp. I loved the informal nature of the event and meeting other attendees. It opened my eyes to the WP community.
    https://philadelphia.wordcamp.org/2011/ 
  • 2014: The advent of WordCamp US, and other “anchor” camps worldwide, using Slack instead of IRC for communication:
    https://wptavern.com/matt-mullenwegs-state-of-the-word-highlights-internationalization-mobile-and-new-tools-for-wordpress-contributors 
  • @karks88
    https://www.karks.com/
    https://www.speckyboy.com/
    https://www.thewpminute.com/
• Jeff Chandler
• Rae Morey
  • https://www.therepository.email/
  • https://wptavern.com/wordpress-5-6-simone-includes-new-twenty-twenty-one-theme-and-improved-editor
  • https://peterwilson.cc/wordpress-5-6-released/ (Peter Wilson, Awesome Motive-sponsored core contributor)
  • https://europe.wordcamp.org/2015/
  • https://torquemag.io/2017/12/state-word-2017-recap/
    
    
• Ken Elliott
  • bkreative.net
  • blackpresswp.com
  • twitter.com/kennethspeaks