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”.
