At WordCamp Tokyo 2019 we followed last year’s exercise from WCUS and ran a Keep / Burn / Add workshop interactive activity. The idea is to explore from a high-level perspective where WordPress is going for that part of the community and how it could be improved.
Note: these are individual opinions, and as such, it should be considered as first-level research to be read and interpreted, not as an absolute list.
Attendees
❤️ Keep
- Gutenberg: drag & drop blocks
- Appearance ⇒ Customize: Live preview
- Automated SEO
- CMS allows posting articles without deep knowledge.
- Autosave feature (version-revision and auto-save functionality)
- Handy posting from WordPress mobile app
- Preview on HTML on the editor
- General Setting allows changing Site Address (URL)
🔥 Burn
- Customizing themes (4 opinions): difficult to customize, hard to manage, and so on.
- Too many configuration settings
- Too many navigation menus
- Tend to add too many customizations
- Too many admin notices
- Installation settings are difficult
- Plugin management requires manual work on WP dashboard instead of https://wordpress.com/ page: auto-update is not working, version compatibility issues, risks, …
➕ Add
- Multi-Language support with Multisite (2 opinions)
- Collaboration with live editing
- Pre-set essential plug-ins (light-weight)
- Customizable user interface
- More Graphical User Interface than text-based UI
- Easier use on mobile
- Easier to operate visually (like Adobe Illustrator)
- Hard to understand the difference between “.com” and “.org” for newbies. While “.org” seem to have more information than “.com”, it will be nice to have in-between information page to fill the gap between “.com” and “.org”.
- Have thumbnails column with titles on “All pages” and/or “All Posts”.
- Enhance automated SEO settings
- A better learning experience for Gutenberg
Thanks to @miekoyo for writing this recap.
Add yours
This is the perspective of the participants at WordCamp Tokyo 2019 Contributor Day Design Table. What’s your perspective?