State of the Word 2022: Matt Mullenweg Highlights Gutenberg’s Progress, Announces New Community Tools
State of the Word (SOTW) watch parties kicked off around the world this afternoon as Matt Mullenweg delivered his annual address to the WordPress community. A small group of people gathered live in New York City to participate while the majority of enthusiasts watched via the livestream. Mullenweg spent an hour reviewing and celebrating the work done across the project in 2022 before taking questions from the audience. At last year’s SOTW, Mullenweg spoke about how Gutenberg adoption is growing beyond WordPress and how he believed it could become “bigger than WordPress itself.” In addition to Gutenberg getting rolled out on the bbPress support forums this week to modernize the WordPress support experience, the block editor has found its way into more apps in 2022. Mullenweg cited a few examples including Engine Awesome (a Laravel-based SaaS application), the Pew Research Center’s Political Typology Quiz, the web version of Automattic’s Day One app, and the Tumblr post form. He noted that in Tumblr, 99% of the editor is hidden – there’s no sidebar, everything happens inline. Mullenweg said he is hoping Gutenberg can create an “open block standard that can be used anywhere,” where users learn it on one system and…
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