6. 2015 – CALYPSO
• “Today we’re announcing something
brand new, a new approach to WordPress”
• “Calypso is written purely in JavaScript,
leveraging libraries like Node and React.”
• “This is a beginning, not an ending.”
– Matt Mullenweg, Dance to Calypso
16. REALITY CHECK
• “Calypso is the new admin for WP”
–both YES and NO.
–YES: it is available on wordpress.com and
via Jetpack on self-hosted WP
–NO: WordPress still comes with the old UI
34. THE FUTURE OF WORDPRESS
• “Learn JavaScript deeply”
• headless CMS
• New UIs, preferably in React
• (and, of course, Git-versioned via VersionPress )