What Should 2011 Hold for WordPress?

• Drop support for PHP 4, move on to PHP5
• Code cleanup
• Improve Performance – Its very heavy in terms of requirement
• More Documentation – For instance WP Cron API doesn’t have detailed tutorials & one have to dive in code to figure things out completely
• Inbuilt SEO options can be something we can consider as everyone uses one or the other SEO plugin

My 0.02$:
– Media: Better media handling and gallery, yadda, yadda ??
– Extend documentation
– Streamline one-click upgrade process & error messages
– Comments: subscribe into comments integration, Facebook connect/Twitter OAuth, OpenID on comments opt-in integration with 3rd party plugins
– Drop old technologies altogether (PHP4/IE6)
– Widgets: Better handling esp. when switching themes, more personalization
– Mobile support by default
– Most important SEO options built-in
– Better WPMU setup
– Uhmmmmm… maybe stricter plugin requirements? (regarding e.g. settings, uninstall, documentation, etc.)

Happy 2011 everybody! ??

I would love to see a release cycle where basically nothing new really gets added, but everything longstanding that needed fixing or revamping gets attention.

Just go through and handle all the stuff we mean to get around to, but never have the time – a huge spring clean if you will. ?? So much would get attention, it would seem new all around. But, like, *better*.

• Core Plugins. Core Plugins. Core Plugins.
• better documentation
• improved menus – ie. good way to add all children of a menu item.
• improved search
• improved multilingual as a core plugin
• core theme frameworks (?)
• better search in plugin directory, some way to cleanup the old stuff that no longer is used/works.
• basic Post type / meta box UI as a core plugin
• +1 on Media Manager improvements
• +1 Switch from svn to git
• Core Plugins. Core Plugins. Core Plugins. ??

1. Formalizing plugin dependencies—allow plugins to possibly register the plugins they depend on, perhaps leading to auto-download and perhaps auto-configure. (I’m thinking along the lines of how apt-get downloads—”these plugins will also be required, download?” and then accordingly move ahead.)
2. Cleaning up the admin side backend code a bit more with lots of new filters and actions. I’d worked on the admin code a bit while making my plugin, and it’s pretty confusing and isn’t as customizable as I would have liked. This might also help in easily hiding irrelevant screens and bring far more customization to the back end.

1. I’d like the option of Google custom search integration;
2. Users can custom the content of wp_header();
3. Media/video improvement;
4. Auto Save option needed, not just in wp-config.php;
5. Theme frameworks for developers;

WordPress is my CMS of choice. Many thanks for everything you are doing with WP. Wishlist:

1. Ability to expand/collapse page hierarchy so I can go straight to the section I’m focused on.
2. Exports to include widget and menu content.
3. Ability to exclude an image from a gallery.
4. Control of cropping on image thumbnails.
5. Show IDs on Pages and Posts screens as well as when editing an individual page or post.
6. When using insert/edit link, it would be great if the Link URL field could be a drop down with a list of pages and posts within the website.
7. Ability to schedule publishing and expiration of content.

I wanted to offer a few suggestions:

Better support for posting html5 video?

Also, I think the image upload process could use some work. Why can’t I re-order in the “upload” area… why can I only do it in the “library”? Why does my image window stay open when I click “save”? Just some UI inconsistencies/confusion.

Finally, I’d love to use the image gallery much more often… but It just doesn’t work for me if I already use the “featured image”… because I don’t want EVERY image in the gallery, just specific images. This feature could also be improved to allow selective gallery posts.

thanks for the hard work!

Hi All and happy new year.

What I would like to see in the upcoming versions of WordPress are:
1- Better support for RTL layout and languages (Arabic language)
2- It would would be nice to see some RTL themes.
3- The media upload tool should allow us to chose whether we want to automatically create a folder for the uploaded file (current feature), select an existing folder for the uploaded file or create a new folder manually.
4- Category should have an option to include an image so that it can be displayed while viewing the category page.

Regards and thanks for the amazing tool. I am committed more than ever to WordPress, after having analyzed other existing CMSs.

1-click backup option.

User enters their FTP, FTPS, or SFTP and then with 1 click of a button WP automatically prompts them to download their database and then downloads the /wp-content folder to their hard drive.

Important to have secured ftp connection available.

Twenty Ten improvments:

• Add 2nd sidebar (left sidebar and right sidebar).
• Add layout support (content-sidebar ; sidebar-content ; sidebar-content-sidebar ; sidebar-sidebar-content ; content-sidebar-sidebar).
• Add 2nd nav menu above the header image.
• Built in SOE support.
• Upload logo (image) from the dashboard (to replace the blog name).
• More options in core widgets.

+1 for :

• Links as post type (@knutsp).
• Move Akismet and Hello Dolly out of the core package (@Jyri V??t?inen).
• Post type admin as seen in More Types plugin should be standard feature (@adebaby).
• Support multiple domains when going multi blogs (@Leroy12).
• the blogroll feature has hardly ever changed. Might it be time to revisit the possibilities here? (@dylan).
• built in flexibility to utilize 1,2, or 3 columns on a page or post (@ztstar).
• Disable all plugins/themes that are not compatible with at least wp3.0 (@Emil).
• Option to clear all/selected the revision history of the posts (@dhyanji).
• bbPress Plugin (@Chip Bennett).
• core theme frameworks (@Dwenaus).

I would like:

• An easy way to merge WordPress sites or at least have import/export include users and related data.
• A menu section for plugin settings so settings aren’t scattered all over the place.
• A Twenty Ten child theme that supports both BuddyPress and the bbPress plugin

Just one thing: Speed! Faster WordPress! And with mapping of options to speed even more by hardcoding. Reduce MySQL queries, minify CSS, minify JS, load everything in an optimal fashion, and other front-end changes that contribute to maximizing speed!

Google is making speed an issue for search engine ranking, and WordPress is too slow for the moment.

• Core plugins