Easy to use and uh also providing the customization that people clearly want and WordPress while also trying to do something which has never really been done before which is provide a what you see is what you get Wizzy wig style interface again is intuitive and easy to use and layout, but that also creates really semantic markup uh structure data and is fast and performance um um it's I don't know if seen any of the comparisons on the way between um WordPress. Good versus other page filters or other proprietary CS that page building functionality, gooden blows them out of the water. It is really fast, really clean mark up really lean Uh this is taking a little longer to do right to do it right is is taking longer, but I believe it's the future of the web um in terms of customization, I believe there'll always be a space for not just one blog, but many plug-ins to send Gutenberg and that is really the idea that by we before we had. You know, lots and lots of different uh page builders kind of having their own data structures their own ways to do uh essentially the same thing from user point of view and themes would have to build to one Seo plugins would have to build each one or trying to provide a common rails or framework that every vision for how page building could work on top of WordPress can leverage these blocks that blocks are even built to other CS can leverage them too. So that is the path we're on. um it's the way WordPress. I believe it's the future. I hope that as many people get on that train as possible, um um but if not, I believe it is inevitable. Hey Matt. This is Doc from Torque magazine. I'm wondering what features for core are you targeting to make WordPress a better headless experience in twenty-one? First, I say I don't love the term headless. I like calling it the couple's WordPress cuz who wants to be headless but by far the thing that's been driving the most improvements to our Apis have been has been our first party usage of them so with Gutenberg built on and using the rest, a and of course our mobile apps uh both Android and iOS, you know million active users um all running through the Apis so that has helped expose a ton of bugs and a ton of other areas where we can improve it. Um I'm keeping my eye on the graph. Plug in I think that is an interesting um possible next step after arrest uh to support either as it more official plugin or just something that we point people to because it seems to be doing well Um you know I was actually I don't think that a Deco architecture headless sites are right for everything. I think that uh they're right in certain situations, but as I am quoted it was saying they are probably a regression for many of the people adopting them. Um I actually had a. Good debate about this at the jam Stat conference with Matt Bowman um but I guess it was too good because they elected not to post it, but perhaps you can track on a recording or something and uh here are some more of my thoughts about uh coupled architectures and WordPress there. I'm at my name is George. I've been a WordPress user since 2007 and I've been watching state of the word for a number of years my question has to do with Gutenberg versus page builders and more specifically regarding page load speed. I'm wondering as Gutenberg in the future. Add more and more features I do anticipate that the page load speed for Gutenberg will also slow down to support the um the new features. Alright. Thanks for all you do Buh bye my name is I am a developer on the Gutenberg team. It's an interesting question you bring here related to performance uh as you can see. With the different WordPress releases since the initial release of the core, the block editor in WordPress, the performance of the editor have been improving even if we were adding features at the same time. So it's definitely a big priority for us and for the front end and the page load speed we've been approaching that in a few different ways, the first one is the block markup We are trying to make sure the block mark it as clean as possible. And also the interesting thing is that Guttenberg brings semantics to the content that is being Reed so WordPress can know exactly what blocks are being grinded what assets they need. What CS what Travis scripts they need and in fact, recently, we landed the request that allows us to only load the CS of the blocks that are actually in need in the current rendered page and this opens a lot of possibilities, for example in the future, we may do the same for JavaScript and lazy load blocks. Um uh when we expand that to food side, editing where a theme is basically composed entirely of blogs, you can imagine that the CS and the provided by the teams themselves won't be as necessary as today. so I think we have a big opportunity here to actually improve the performance of all the WordPress websites and that decrease it as we have teachers. Thank you. Hi, I'm from India. I'm a project manager Mindy working with the group of therapist uh my question for you today is a simple one um and the reason is we have a lot of new features and advance workers, but as an end user a home, maybe a manager have you like it to be good and designed for the back end and uh it would have been good if we had more customization. Option just for the back kid. Have you ever feel so thanks. Hello, Hita, I am your from Denmark. I worked a bit on the block design. Thank you for your question. Try to answer it is best I can. Ah, as you suggest a WordPress has landed many features and recent releases but very few changes to the dashboard visuals. She asking whether that's gonna change. My answer is the like to see that very much. Ah one of the To making that happen is that the dashboard as it exists has been customized by a great deal of plugins and developers um and although it is complicated to new users um the fact that it's been unchanged for so long means that it's familiar to existing users uh that means whatever changes we make has to be rolled out carefully and in small iterations uh but my hope is that over time those iterations can. Up um, For example, the block editor we have a new icon set and a new set of components uh user interface controls um although technically challenging if we could roll those out to the rest of the dashboard, it would bring a great deal of improvements to both accessibility and visual simplicity. So I'd like to see that happen. Um you also ask about customization options and the thing is WordPress is a lot of things to a lot of people and customization. Options beyond color schemes might help tailor the interface each group uh I would suggest though that the first step to take would be to make general user interface enhancements cuz that would benefit everyone. But after that, absolutely we could look at customization options. I hope that answers your question and thank you again for your time. Hey Matt here from Belgium. Thank you for taking the state of the word online this year. I'm using for all of the websites I developed my company and I'm an active contributor to the project you mentioned before that uh in phase four of the good uh project that multi lingual features are coming to core. Um I know this is in the future, but is there any public road map of all the features and functionalities we want uh in WordPress. Um is it um going to include in a language fall back into core, so we can configure multiple locals and the fall back when a translation is not on um currently as a contributor to the team, I find it very difficult to translate thousands of plugins and teams and I would love that I fall back to another local would be there before it goes to English. currently I am using preferred languages. Um as a plugin for this but it would be very cool if this would be included in verbal square. Thank you for answering my question. Hello, I am helping lead the good number project forwards. Ah thank you for your question and for contributing to the project. Regarding the road map, ah the public publishing about slash road map. Umm that has it of like an overview of the next And it touches upon the four faces of Guam as well, um what it doesn't contain, though is a detailed plan on phase four multilingual um because it's fairly further ahead for us. We're in the thick of phase two um, however, like there has been some conversations around the implications of localization and some of the multilingual aspects uh specifically around patterns and block them. how those could be built in the umm nothing substantially yet but if you are interesting in those conversations that's a good place to to engage with and start looking at umm but yeah like as we approach as we get closer to face for we will have like a more detail over view of what's needed and what requirements and what we want to do. Um regarded in the other topic about fold that languages umm that's a very good point as for me I am very sympathetic to that specifically because I speak Spanish but they would wash Um that means that in most cases I would benefit from a fall back to Spain's Spanish um cuz there, there's not much translations going on for you. Why I'm not even sure if we have a little guy honestly um so yeah and that's something that could I don't know personally. I think it could happen before Phase four. I think it would be like a small step towards uh significantly better experience um so it might be good to discuss it before phase um but in any case. that happens we that if it doesn't happen before um it would surely be a part of the face for conversation. Ah thank you again and hope you are doing well. Bye, bye. Hello everyone, good morning mat. This is California in the valley. Just North of Los Angeles. I'm the lead organizer for work camp, Sanikrita online and I run two WordPress meetups in the area as well. As you can tell I'm a big WordPress fan. Advocate for accessibility as well and I've done quite a few events this year in that space. where I wanted to reach out to you today about was uh a matter that's pretty important to me when we had our event in the spring um we had volunteers from Bangladesh, we had attendees from Europe from Africa volunteers from South America and it opened up my eyes to WordPress as a worldwide entity and a community that. Global in nature. My concern was these online presentations these online events, word camps workshops, etcetera. I was really wondering whether they could be more accessible. What is WordPress doing to make its online presence more accessible to everyone? I'm really big on inclusion and diversity, and I would love to hear what WordPress plans to do moving forward with online events. Thank you have a great holiday and a new good new year everyone take care. Well, first of all Joe Thank you so much for your contributions and leading by example, which is well, I would say the only type of leadership um I do believe that as anxious as I am to get back to our in-person events, I do believe that much like your experience of hosting uh you know a more local word camp and people from all over the world. joining I think if we can move more and more of our community engagements to be really rich and interactive. Online Um we get the benefits of the metaphors right that people can choose to represent themselves. However, they like or not they can um be treated for their and proceed by their contributions, their words how they participate, not necessarily who they are where they're from or any of that um when I first got started contributing to open source. Um I didn't have any of the background or there was wasn't really a community in Houston, where I was or anything like that um to see. But I appreciate it so much that people would look at for me my code and say, okay. This isn't just some young kid in Houston, who is not a real engineer. Uh they were able to look at it for its own merits and I think that you know almost 20 years later we can do so much more than that in terms of creating a truly inclusive community, The other thing that's really important to me there and that I do see demonstrate that. Press but I just wanna emphasize it again is what you mentioned that idea of always being welcoming always being kind always being friendly, particularly as more folks from one of the world get involved. It's important to remember that not everyone's first language is English and so there might be communication barriers or misunderstandings and so just um we have a saying within automatic that II think think is for any sort of distributed work or collaboration, and it's a different kind of AP stands for. Positive intent um find that if you can this isn't something you can ask of anyone else, but if you can remind yourself of it allows you to see other people's interactions through a lens which you know allows you to put your best foot forward and allows them to regain their best if they didn't put it forward um probably on accident uh with whatever interaction or communication, it was so I keep all those things in mind um just to recap more and more. Online again leaning way more into the online education online engagement online mentorship online, You know everything um which is kinda funny cuz it is a little bit back to our roots before we ever had events um remembering that great ideas. great contributions can come from everywhere and anywhere and then making sure that people regardless of where they are the background the language they speak their economic ability anything feel fully included in the WordPress community. Everyone has a place here. We are trying to democratize publishing and commerce. We are and democratize means it's for everyone. It's not just for uh the few or the elite or the tentacle um that's our mission. It's a lifelong mission uh will never be perfect and I plan to keep working on this the rest of my life and I hope that to see you and others alongside that mission uh for many years and decades to come. Hi, Matt. My name is Laura Uh I am a member of the WordPress uh community in Montclair, New Jersey and I have used WordPress Day of my life since January of 2006, So I'm a really uh early adopter and a long time user. I'm also somebody who doesn't code. I'm a content creator and I love doing that and getting all kinds of messages out there in the world um primarily I've created content for non profits uh for entertain. Industry websites So I guess my question to you. Matt is um when I go to word camps I frequently don't see a lot of tracks for fellow content creators like me What could you say to the folks who are running WordPress events specifically WordPress meetups and word camps that might encourage them to embrace content creators and think about creating. More tracks for users that were less technical. Hey, Laura, I think this is an excellent question and one that's really important to me. I think that content is the thing that gives your website power and meaning it's wonderful to have a well built well constructed well designed website, but if you don't have anything for your users once they arrive, I'm not certain that your website is really doing its best job for you and so to encourage event organizers to embrace content creators and make sure that we have provided content for them to to uplevel their. Skills I think the thing that's most important to remember is that writing for the internet is a specific and different skill. It's not the same as uh technical writing and it's not the same as writing pros and so when we want to have very good websites that are engaging to our audiences but still get the point across. I think the only way to do it is with excellent content, no matter how that looks for you and the best way for us to help WordPress to. That is to provide training through our word camps, Meetups etcetera Hi Matt. I'm Lex here using WordPress more than 10 years and congrats for you know we grown up to 40% of the web. That's nice. so uh my question for you today is um do you have any plans to optimize uh WordPress performance? I mean. it's like you know we have jet pack, we have cashing plugins ah but I found not only me, my clients and I see ah bloggers and everyone struggle with the performance. And ah also like optimising the database, queries like for to get a simple tag or a category. We are running too much of subcurries, right? I am sure you are ah programmer yourself. So, you might have some plans for the future and good luck with the our motto like you know democratic the web. Thank you. Hat relax, you head on one of my favourite topics which is performance. As really excited that we are able to get some performance improvements and our press five point four. As I talk to button to talk. But ah, there is always more to do. It's beautiful thing about performances, it can always be better. Ah for the issues that you describe, I would encourage you to perhaps check out a different web Um if if you're into that frequent performance issues that might be something where you know, maybe they have you on a server too many other clients or maybe some of their they don't have SS in the servers or whatever it is, but um any modern performance WordPress Web Post Queen. We are the ones we recommend um word press.org I can really handle a ton of traffic to even even uh uncut. I introduced maybe something request so please if there's something out there uh that you have noticed um either open a track ticket or you know, share it with someone or if you have diva inquiries is actually one of the ways I learn the most about programming and engineering just spending hours and hours inside the my command line was um was actually amazing. sort of way I developed as a developer and progress as a developer, so it might be something you can discover something new within WordPress then could save millions of millions of. Server hours some place um so let me know what you find or um let me know if that if you make a ticket there, I'll make sure to bump it with the developers and that it gets the proper attention. Twenty brought new and unexpected challenges, and I'm proud to be a part of a community like WordPress willing to step up act quickly and offer solutions in times of need, which emerging web technologies are you most interested in following in 2021 and how would you like to see groups like Ms Media within the WordPress ecosystem innovating and solution building using that technology? Hi, first of all congratulations for Anne's school listed in the top five. I believe the WordPress power tool to make it the furthest. I know that wasn't easy. so congratulations on that terms of emerging technologies um more broadly, I was outside of that twenty looks like it's a year when more more mainstream adoption of cryptocurrencies um is really coming to bear and that to me is you know as someone who's a big supporter of open source. And cryptocurrency is kind of like open source applied to money the finances um excited about that still very early days. Probably like you know we're 10 years into something that's gonna take 30 years to happen but um exciting to see steps closer to home in the WordPress world um the most emerging technology is not new, but it will be new to us when we adopted for phrase, we have Gutenberg Webb RC, which is essentially like a way for browsers to connect to each other and appear to be fashion that we could use for real-time communication so, for example, the real time. Editing that we wanna put into Gutenberg and we wanna do it without a centralized surfer so that you know clients will be able to connect to each other directly um a little simpler and I guess don't know if you call emerging, but it's something that we need to do a lot better at is native development so both the mobile apps on iOS and Android and Native desktop apps WordPress, I think uh have a lot of potential for just creating a really slick highly integrated ultra-fast application like. Interface for WordPress Uh we've got the Apis for it now um we've got some good starts uh including some of that's based on calypso, which is the open source racked framework that runs WordPress.com. so there's some good stuff there, but um I would like to see a lot more. so thank you for your question. Hi Matt. I'm Michelle head of customer success at give WP Volunteer for WordPress and chart and podcaster at WP Coffee talk We've seen the WordPress community grow and morph over the years and it's been amazing this year changed a lot of. Way that the community meets interacts due to the pandemic, some of it has been heartbreaking like that meeting in person biblical connecting from outside of their areas on meetups, online conferences and more. my question is what do you see for the future of the WordPress community as we move forward and still uncertain times what initiative should we be looking forward to and what kind of support? can we expect for our communities? Thanks for providing the online state of the word and an opportunity to contribute with questions. Hi, Michelle thanks for taking time to send in a question Andrea Middleton here gosh the changes that we have weathered this year have been immense haven't they I agree with both the heartbreak and the unexpected benefits that you pointed out when I think about what the future holds for the WordPress community, though, especially as we move out of twenty but potentially into more uncertainty, I'm really optimistic. I that WordPress enthusiasts are incredibly resourceful and resilient in the face of adversity as we proven this year in many ways the initiative, I'm most excited about moving into 21 is the learn WordPress platform which formally launched this week this on-demand WordPress training platform has the potential to build more bridges and paths to WordPress and success in WordPress than we've ever seen. At a time when more people than ever are looking to move their businesses, online or shift careers and become WordPress professionals, I hope to see a great deal of support for this effort from WordPress based businesses as well individual contributors who wanna help others to help WordPress as they themselves have been helped the support we in WordPress provide to each other is all about how um small kind. Build into great and interdependent powerful organizations and I don't see that changing anytime soon. Thanks so much for asking talk to you later. Hello, I'm Moana uh freelance WordPress developer based in Serbia and also active member of documentation team, and that is my subject of my question today Uh so as I see it, there are two major problems which are not unique only to the team. All team seems to be suffering from same conditions so first one is we are heavily under staffed. We don't have enough uh active contributors. To cover all the areas and the second one is is that don't collaborate enough or at all with other things and this goes that far that sometimes we don't even know who is the person doing the communication for release the you know the notes uh also there was this huge gap between uh Gutenberg and recommendation team and it's getting this year but uh it shouldn't even happen with project that as guttenberg is and I'm not. That anyone here is doing anything wrong. Uh we all do as much as we can uh I'm just stating how it is so my question is how can we as global community recognize this need to connect teams to work more closely with each other? uh in the commendation team, we are working right now uh on two big projects, external linking. And the communication style guide now this will have impact beyond the recommendation team and I'm not even sure how many people are aware of the fact that we are doing it. so from my perspective, WordPress as project is getting more complex and the way we were doing things in past and the way we are doing things right now is not sufficient anymore. So I guess it comes down to rethinking what is the role of making in WordPress project and how can we uh improve our activities to make our work more efficient in this situation that we are all in that we don't have enough people and we don't communicate we need to communicate more. So what is your opinion on that? Thank you. Hey, Mila, It sounds like you have two big questions and I have two big thoughts about them. firstly on the question of um recognizing how connected we are. I agree WordPress teams frequently don't understand how connected they are a little bit because it's hard to know how your actions affect others when you just barely have enough time to focus on the contributions that you want to make to the teams that you're participating with myself. I think that sharing the internal workings a bit better from my side can help us all to know who we might need to collaborate with during projects and. I'm working up a podcast for Twenty-one to share bite-sized insight for contributors who want to know more about how their contributions fit into the larger picture, But I also understand that part of the solution is getting more contributors into the space and I don't necessarily have a solution for that outside of our in-person events, which, of course in 2020, we haven't seen a lot of but it does kind of lead us into your next question given. WordPress is so complex um and there aren't enough people not enough communication. What can we do? I have have been on the communication bandwagon for a long time um but I actually think that one of our short-term problems as a project is how to take our efficient communication and make it more effective. I'm gonna quote for you now the nineteenth lesson from the cathedral and the bizarre our kind of source material for things that we've learned about open. Um uh in in general uh to quote, it says provided development coordinator has a communications medium at least as good as the internet and knows how to lead without without coercion. Many heads are inevitably better than one. Later in the documents later in this in this piece of writing um, it's noted that open source at scale can't necessarily function very effectively by constantly having chaos all the time it's hard for human beings to work in that sort of space. and so I think that one of our short-term questions uh for the project as a whole is to make sure that when we ask. To communicate about what they're doing, why they're doing it and where they're doing it We have made sure as leaders in WordPress that the plans for the product are clear so that everyone makes good use of their time myself. Monica and I'm working on my 2015 and contributing to the workplace. Uh my question is about the automation testing in the word critical systems. Of people are very much concern about the securities and the other issues before upgrade to the new version. So what are such things we can implement in our WordPress Ecosystem to deliver the hundred percent secure update so basically what are the automation things we can integrate in our system thank you. Hi Monica, I am Jonathan. Thanks for asking this question. Security is always evolving in changing. And moving targets are very difficult to reach definitively. It's also a process that unfortunately cannot be a hundred percent automated. Everyone needs to learn to practice a security first mindset. But thankfully there are some tools that can help us in our projects. For example, the work of security team has several automated testing process behind the scenes. Every change Core is run through these processes to protect protect against security vulnerabilities. The processes are continually changing and expanding as new security issues are discovered and fixed. I'm being a little intentionally vague because often security practices will be tailored to a certain project or organization being ambiguous will help you keep your project most secure There are also some code analysis tools like the PB code sniffer that can be used to identify potentially insecure code in your project, adding these tools. To your project and requiring them to produce a passing scan is a great way to ensure the quality of the code that you release and we press itself several user facing features have been introduced in the last few major versions that make it easier for site owners to be more aware of their site Security. The most recent one is the ability to opt in to auto updates for plugins and themes. Turning this on is a great way to make sure your sites are running the latest and most secure code automatically all the time site health is. Another great example of a user facing tool there are over a dozen security related checks included Inward Press Corp by default and when they don't pass site health, educates the user and provides them with a recommended way forward to fix the issue. Any plugin and theme can add their own test to site health if there are any security related checks specific to your project, adding them to site health is a great way to make a site owner aware of a problem automatically a few of the test. That you are running secure versions of tools installed that the server level using pp as an example, you could set up an email or whenever a new version of PHP is released. This would help you automatically become aware of security releases so you can reach out to your host and request that they update you to this new version. Because of our strong community, we have the opportunity to work together to continue educating site owners users and developers about security best practices if everyone is more aware of insecure practices, the entire ecosystem will be elevated. As a result. I hope that's helpful and answer your questions and thank you for choosing WordPress. My name is Robert Anderson, I am a contributor living in Sydney, Australia, Seth Miller wrote in with this question as becomes more modern and featured driven. how do you approach on boarding of new contributors and other curious types? Think about the same developer to look into book building with the existing complexity of and other tools? great question. Seth Thank you for asking it uh sir. Divided into the meat question, uh there's two quick things that I wanna know firstly, one of the aims of the book editor is to make it so that users can create really ambitious websites without having to be a developer so as an example, if you insert a custom HD block and then save that as a reusable block, you've you've more or less created a new block without having to write a single line of code, which is really cool. Okay secondly to like web uh to only optional. Developers can write a book using plain JavaScript that will we will understand uh and in fact if you load up the candle, you'll see that all of our code examples that are coming in two flavors is next, which has all the bells and whistles, including react and uh efive, which doesn't. but yes building building box and working with react is a lot easier if you are able. Use x three syn so setting up some kind of pill to is often worth the upfront effort and yes, I'm 100% agree that this is very challenging and can be pretty off putting to new developers. broadly speaking, I think that there's two things that we can do to make this easier tooling and education on a tool in front. we now have some really neat tools that make getting set up for development. a lot easier the first, which is. By the core team at work is WordPress slash scripts. This is AN PM package that hides away all of the complexity of web and it gives you a single command that turns a source directory of dept. Uh which has all the fancy intex into a builder of compiled JavaScript. The second uh developed by the community is create block This one gives you a single command that instantly creates an entire block plug in for you. It does all the work of configuring the building environment and generates uh like the necessary PhD to load everything into work. It's really quite straightforward. On the education front, we have some really great tutorials in the book, which cover how to get set up with development using WordPress uh slash scripts and you can see them@WordPress.org slash slash handbook uh and lastly the workforce training team is actually uh just recently launched Learn dot WordPress dot. which is a new home for video workshops about WordPress and one of the video workshops there. but I Jonathan is all about how. To develop the block, so definitely check that out and definitely watch that space Um I hope that was helpful and I hope I answered your question and uh thank you for choosing WordPress. Hi my name is I'm from a city called in the southern part of India I've been involved with WordPress for about 15 years now and for the past 6 years, I've been working as a full-time work in short workplace work that puts food on my table. so here in my. so it's been about seventeen years since the first version of WordPress has been released and all of us know where word process there right now. So my question is when do you see WordPress in the next seventeen years? Thank you. Sudar, seventeen years is such a long time. I feel that I for this long. Ah I think my hope is the same as many others in the WordPress community. Ah that 37 we've gotten the vast majority, maybe as close to 100% as we can get of the web on open source software um I'd love to see Gutenberg I used not just by WordPress but by all of its competitors as well by everyone who's accepting text in a box on the internet or on native um I'd love them to build on good work because then that allows us to work together and something that we used to all have to rewrite and recreate a million times and I believe that's. Humanity moves forward is when we collaborate when we compete in terms of um you know freedom the open web. It's hard to imagine what technologies will be relevant. Um one thing I always say uh within my company it automatic is that the particular change will be impossible to predict, but the fact that change is going to happen is inevitable. It is 100% certain and so as long as we can stay adaptable flexible not become too in our beliefs and always keeps that beginner's mind. Um the ability to learn new technology, I've been really impressed with particularly in the past year to post Gutenberg. How so many folks across were impressive have been picking up JavaScript. um you know taking where they were probably PhD Pros and JavaScript uh novices they've really invested the time to become incredible job developers and now the entire WordPress community is benefiting from that there will be new generations of technology I imagine 17 years from now um um there will be after JavaScript that will be the most important thing to WordPress. I don't know what that will be yet. But I'm looking forward uh to finding it out and I hope that you're part of the journey as well. So see you around. Hi my name is Toby or Toby as my handle is here and press I'm one of the people in the biggest contributor team we have almost 60000 people who have contributed at least some translations of WordPress to around 200. Different language versions and out of those between forty and sixty are actively maintained so that you can use them right now if you want and a lot of people do that 55. 55% of all WordPress sites around the world that we know about use some other language than English. My question is about multi WordPress, It has been mentioned a couple of times that uh in the future phase Gutenberg will uh cater for multilingual compound I would like to suggest that we order to now make decisions on what's stories structures we are going to use and procedures and perhaps even who already now go forward to make WordPress multilingual. They're already solutions and we could probably reuse some of those and by doing this. We open the possibility for a lot of new uh solutions to come up that could support procedures around translation handling about the lingual content and so on, and that part is very Gutenberg actually need to develop something but uh for the storage procedures and so on, I think we're talking more about pp development where we could reuse what are the existing begins to a large extent? Thank you. Toby Thank you so much for your question and of course, thank you for your contributions uh for with translations and that entire Poly team much love to the Poly team. Um I like you, I'm very anxious to get multilingual and to um and Gutenberg whether we do it as part of core as part of an official plugin um Cbd uh but part of the reason we made a phase four is I know that we can only do so many things well at a time and it is a. Important that we really execute super well on these first phases of Gutenberg blocks. That's why also even though super excited about it, we haven't officially started anything with the real time, editing or phase three um if we don't get phase one and phase two to be the best experiences in the world for editing burnout of any open source any proprietary competitors any builders um phase three and phase forges won't matter right because uh it just. Or press won't be relevant a decade from now, so I do believe that is the most important problem that we're we're facing and part of why even though we do have a wide breath of contributors and like you mentioned some plugins that do multi plugin multilingual already um I don't want to dilute sort of that the core contributors focus um oh, what's just how important I think there are now that said much like Gutenberg has innovated in plugins and then it gets later adopted emerge. Um there's nothing stopping I think you know more innovation and more investments happening the plugins. In fact, I think it's interesting that the plugins can take various different approaches with regards to data storage and we can see which works the best and what scales and the pluses and minuses of each um my hope is that down the line much like the page builders are Cos around sort of Gutenberg as and blocks as a page building primitive that they all build on top of my hope is that you. The learnings and hopefully contributions from all the folks currently doing multilingual plugins right now we can figure out what is the 20% that gets us 80% of the way there and create a common framework that all of them built on and then you know much like we are with birds that rails will you know work well with every other plug-in theme. So that is a hope that is a plan Twenty-two is what I am personally um hoping to begin working and focusing on this. that also gives me a few years to learn another language. Thank you for a question. I'll see you around WordPress. Hi Tom. I'm Otto Uh you wrote in with this question uh it reads Sorry. I can't make a video to ask my question, but what I would like to ask is what you think about plugins like word, defense and security nature, which recommend removing version information from WordPress, headers and changing operations for certain files if you agree with these permissions, then I wonder why they aren't implemented in the WordPress core or if you disagree, then why are these plugins allowed to remain in the plug in libraries and charge for making changes that are not recommended by WordPress. A good question to um. Removing version information is often referred to as a security measure, but on the whole, it is kind of an ineffective. one you see the thinking is that hacker is search for virgins and things like the site before they run scripts on it but history has shown that to be rarely the case the most common problem faced by sites is essentially bots and scripting attacks. these kind of automated attempts The failed cases don't really matter so it doesn't save a hacker time or to have sophisticated code to check for first uh so. This kind of thing is the same as hiding the login screen. It's not for security. It's mostly for vanity, um the problem really with calling these kind of things security measures is that users who don't understand security in the form of layers of protection will think that doing this is the only security they have to have uh I've seen people use passwords simply because they assume the login screen could be found in the first place um doing such things like removing versions or hiding logins or uh anything like that is. Actively dangerous or harmful. It's just not the first thing you should be doing to improve the security of our website in general. so in that respect they're allowed in the plugin directory the same as anything else is I mean plugins are allowed for people who want to do such even if that isn't the majority of users. Um I mean that's what plugins are for after all. It's to customize your set the way you want it as for whether they can charge for making changes all plugins on word press that order free any. Charges made by plugins such as pro versions that are sold elsewhere, sort of outside of our per view So in that respect I would say I only use free plugins so there's probably a free plug in that will make the changes you want. um Thanks for your question. Tom uh appreciate it hope that helps. Hi Matt. I'm in 2017 I presented word on how cities and towns can work with their residents to sell locally online. My question for you is this what more can we achieve beyond the freedom of empowerment and expression for all to self digitally? Essentially what's your vision for democratizing commerce during this pandemic and beyond? Thanks Hi, my name is Paul. I'm the CEO here at Commerce. Thank you for your question and thank you for everything you do to support local businesses We share that mission. ultimately so uh your question can be more pertinent in a year like twenty that has brought such hardship to small businesses E-commerce powers over 2000000 stores on our platform and we take that role really seriously one of the things that we've been focused on this year. Um we know that we're in commerce can often be require. Of technical knowledge, uh just encourage to kind of get up and running with if you're less experienced with the platforms and this year, especially this year stores may not necessarily have the budget to go out and hire that additional help so we've been in focus this year on empowering merchants to be more self sufficient and removing many of the obstacles that a merchant might hit in getting their store online and then running and growing that store um we've been focused on our on boarding for one. Streamlining the setup process and configuration for lose such that you can get to that for sale that much more quickly. We're redesigning the navigation around woo commerce to make it that much more intuitive again for folks who are maybe less experienced with WooCommerce and WordPress. We've been investing big in the block editor and bringing new product blocks into new commerce to enable our merchants to be uh again more self sufficient in the way that they merchandise their products and not have to be reliant upon a developer to implement those uh promotions. We also know that it's not enough to just get a store online and to kind of you know, operate the store our merchants wanna grow so we need to help them reach their customers. so we've also been investing a lot in improving the marketing solutions that are available for commerce to help our merchants grow their stores and so I hope that's helpful. Thank you for contributing to WordPress. Wow. That was a lot of questions and answers. I really appreciate everyone from the community who helped to answer the questions um as always with WordPress, These things are so much better when we work together and it was. Exciting to me to be able to do a distributed and virtual version of what happens sometimes at work camps when I'll pass the mic to someone usually in the front row from the WordPress community who knows so much more than I can. I can answer the question so much better. so keep an eye out for these recordings and captions and more which will be on WordPress.tv and the uh WordPress YouTube channel uh but that's a video. do. thank you so much for tuning in I am so. To the WordPress community this year for being just a place of stability and strength, I really love and appreciate you all. thank you so much and see you again online.