Designing Wordpress: How to keep 30 Million users Happy

John O’Nolan
twitter.com/johnonolan
Radiiate
head of operations
WordPress
deputy head of UI group
.com .com
Clients: Writing:
Projects:
Lesson 1.
There is no way to keep
30,000,000 users happy.
But we do our best.
Lesson 2.
How Much You Think You Know About WordPress
How Much You Really Know About WordPress
Lesson 3.
Charts That John Finds Useful & Funny
Charts That Are Genuinely Useful
Charts That Are Genuinely Funny
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Progression of Chart Humour
Behind The Scenes
Behind The Scenes
Matt Mullenweg
Co-founder & Project Lead
Ryan Boren
Lead Developer
Mark Jaquith
Lead Developer
Andrew Ozz
Lead Developer
Peter Westwood
Lead Developer
Jane Wells
UX/UI and Community Lead
Andrew Nacin
Core Commit
Dion Hulse
Core Commit
Contributing Core Developers
with Temporary Commit Status
Trusted Contributing Core Developers
Active Contributing Core Developers
Casual Contributing Core Developers
Matt Thomas
Style Lead
Specific Area
Core Commit

John O’Nolan
UI Deputy
UI Group Contributors
Forum
Moderators
Theme Authors
Docs Team
Plugin Authors
WordPress Users (including consultants/private developers)
Testers
WordPress Users
Theme Reviewers
Mark Riley
Plugin Repo Lead
Joseph Scott
Theme Repo Lead
Codex
Editors
Ben Dunkle
Icon Designer
Forum
Volunteers
WORDPRESS.ORG STAKEHOLDERS
Matt Mullenweg
Co-founder & Project Lead
Ryan Boren
Lead Developer
Mark Jaquith
Lead Developer
Andrew Ozz

Lead Developer
Peter Westwood
Lead Developer
Jane Wells
UX/UI and Community Lead
Andrew Nacin
Core Commit
Dion Hulse
Core Commit
Contributing Core Developers
with Temporary Commit Status
Trusted Contributing Core Developers
Active Contributing Core Developers
Casual Contributing Core Developers
Matt Thomas
Style Lead
Specific Area
Core Commit
John O’Nolan
UI Deputy
UI Group Contributors
Forum
Moderators
Theme Authors
Docs Team
Plugin Authors
WordPress Users (including consultants/private developers)
Testers
WordPress Users
Theme Reviewers

Mark Riley
Plugin Repo Lead
Joseph Scott
Theme Repo Lead
Codex
Editors
Ben Dunkle
Icon Designer
Forum
Volunteers
THE CIRCLE OF TRUST
Andrew Nacin
Donncha
O’Caoimh
Jon Cave
(duck_)
Silviu Burca
(Scribu)
Alex M
(Viper007Bond)
Andy Skelton
Joseph Scott
XML-RPC
Mike Adams
Matt Thomas
UI/2010
Nikolay Bachiyski
i18n
Dion Hulse
John O’Nolan

(UI Group)
Samuel Wood
(Otto42)
Daryl
Koopersmith
Matt Mullenweg
Jane Wells
Peter Westwood
Andrew Ozz
Mark Jaquith
Ryan Boren
Matt Mullenweg
Co-founder & Project Lead
Ryan Boren
Lead Developer
Mark Jaquith
Lead Developer
Andrew Ozz
Lead Developer
Peter Westwood
Lead Developer
Jane Wells
UX/UI and Community Lead
Andrew Nacin
Core Commit
Dion Hulse
Core Commit
Contributing Core Developers
with Temporary Commit Status
Trusted Contributing Core Developers

Active Contributing Core Developers
Casual Contributing Core Developers
Matt Thomas
Style Lead
Specific Area
Core Commit
John O’Nolan
UI Deputy
UI Group Contributors
Forum
Moderators
Theme Authors
Docs Team
Plugin Authors
WordPress Users (including consultants/private developers)
Testers
WordPress Users
Theme Reviewers
Mark Riley
Plugin Repo Lead
Joseph Scott
Theme Repo Lead
Codex
Editors
Ben Dunkle
Icon Designer
Forum
Volunteers
WORDPRESS.ORG STAKEHOLDERS
Matt Mullenweg

Co-founder & Project Lead
Ryan Boren
Lead Developer
Mark Jaquith
Lead Developer
Andrew Ozz
Lead Developer
Peter Westwood
Lead Developer
Jane Wells
UX/UI and Community Lead
Andrew Nacin
Core Commit
Dion Hulse
Core Commit
Contributing Core Developers
with Temporary Commit Status
Trusted Contributing Core Developers
Active Contributing Core Developers
Casual Contributing Core Developers
Matt Thomas
Style Lead
Specific Area
Core Commit
John O’Nolan
UI Deputy
UI Group Contributors
Forum
Moderators
Theme Authors

Docs Team
Plugin Authors
WordPress Users (including consultants/private developers)
Testers
WordPress Users
Theme Reviewers
Mark Riley
Plugin Repo Lead
Joseph Scott
Theme Repo Lead
Codex
Editors
Ben Dunkle
Icon Designer
Forum
Volunteers
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