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And and I, you know, one of the approaches that I&#8217;m kind of doing with my show is once I have somebody on and I get to know, like, who they are and how we interact, then, you know, maybe I invite you back and we do a longer show if there&#8217;s something more for us to dig into. So, yeah, there&#8217;s just a lot of variability. I, I really I talked with Matt Medeiros, I think, last fall about my philosophy on doing the show, and there&#8217;s a lot of a salesman&#8217;s mentality to it. So in sales, to be successful at sales, you just have to deal with rejection and no&#8217;s.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>Michelle Frechette 00:15:25&nbsp; Absolutely.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>Roger Williams 00:15:26&nbsp; And so one of the things I learned early in my sales career was to collect 50 no&#8217;s a day. And then I would get to a yes. Right? And and you know, the math sometimes worked and sometimes it didn&#8217;t, depending on what I was selling. Right? 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And so Meetups are just a really exciting way to really get that super local connection happening. And as a global sponsor, we help with the fees responsible for Meetup.com, which love it or hate it. you know, I&#8217;m not going to tell you my judgment right now, but it is a useful site for organizing things.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>Roger Williams 00:25:51&nbsp; As an organizer, it makes it really easy for me to quickly get stuff posted up and then get people to come to the event. And then there&#8217;s another aspect of the Meetups that a little bit less known, apparently, because I keep on having people asking if we can help them with their venue costs. And I always ask, hey, did you reach out to WordPress Foundation yet? Because as global sponsors, we also help with the funding to help get some venue costs covered. and so that&#8217;s just really exciting to help promote both of those programs, WordCamps and Meetups.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>Michelle Frechette 00:26:35&nbsp; Absolutely. That&#8217;s awesome. and it&#8217;s really nice that there are organizations like Kinsta that, you know, are so all in on the WordPress community that you&#8217;re sponsoring, contributors. You&#8217;re sponsoring the community at large as well. I, I, I&#8217;m signing the paperwork today as one of your most recent contributors that you&#8217;re sponsoring. And I want to thank you for sponsoring my time in the WordPress community. So, yeah, I had a little snafu with signing the paperwork, as we talked about before, but it will be signed as soon as we&#8217;re done here today. So it will be official very shortly, and I&#8217;ll be able to post it on social and say how wonderful it is to have organizations like Kinsta sponsoring the work that I do in WordPress. So thank you for that.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>Roger Williams 00:27:21&nbsp; Well, you&#8217;re welcome. And, you know, and we&#8217;re proud to sponsor you and the other contributors because we know it&#8217;s an all volunteer project. 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But there&#8217;s a lot of time and effort and people involved with making that happen. As far as 6.8&nbsp; is going. How are you feeling about it? I know that there&#8217;s been like some, you know, Matt has put out some ideas that maybe we&#8217;re going to do one release a year or something. Do you think that there&#8217;s enough people helping with testing out and and checking for bugs at this point?</p>\n\n\n\n<p>Michelle Frechette 00:31:29&nbsp; I mean, there are right there. There&#8217;s always people who are in there testing. We have, you know, quite a few people who are doing that kind of thing. You can always use more because we can&#8217;t test every scenario. We can&#8217;t test it against, you know, you we don&#8217;t know how it interacts with every single plugin in the world because we can&#8217;t test it on all those things. So the more people test it with those things now never, ever, ever updated on your live site please. I mean, take our word for it. 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We just onboarded new a whole bunch of new photo moderators. And the queue has been sitting at zero at the end of every day. We have so many people moderating photos. We have over 20,000 photos now in the photo directory. And yeah, it used to be sometimes I would log in and be like, oh, there&#8217;s 300 to moderate. Well, let me see how many I can do in 15 or 20 minutes. Now I log in. I&#8217;m like the only ones I have to look at are the ones that are held in moderate or held as flagged. Because other people in the United States or outside of the United States can&#8217;t see those. It&#8217;s something to do with laws and things. And so usually it&#8217;s a picture of an animal. Not always. sometimes it&#8217;s things that cannot be released. Of course. for any number of reasons. But, I would say and all of the photos I have not allowed through out of the hundreds that get flagged only two. So it it&#8217;s AI driven. 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Hey, you know, this documentation or something is. Seems a little off. All of us at Kinsta can go into the content feedback channel and share that feedback. You know, and do our best to kind of try and help make suggestions that are helpful for the writers. But the turnaround on those is really quick, and we want to make sure that the documentation is is up to date and useful.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>Michelle Frechette 00:36:29&nbsp; Sounds like a great team.&nbsp;</p>\n\n\n\n<p>Roger Williams: Oh, absolutely.&nbsp;</p>\n\n\n\n<p>Michelle Frechette: My my last comment is that I think only the best podcasters also have lava lamps in the background, because I have one and I see yours.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>Roger Williams 00:36:42&nbsp; Yes. No. The lava lamp was an absolutely critical piece for the set. It&#8217;s just fun to have. It always reminds me, though, I think it was Cloudflare. 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Hi Cami, I know you do a lot of different things. You have your agency and all these, you know, other things, podcasting and all the things you&#8217;re doing now. But today we&#8217;re really going to talk about your web designer habits, how you came up with that, what some of them might look like, how people can get in on that, and maybe some things that we&#8217;re going to tease about what you and I are working on together too. So.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>Cami MacNamara 00:00:30&nbsp; Well, that sounds great. Thank you.&nbsp;</p>\n\n\n\n<p>Michelle Frechette 00:00:33&nbsp; Yeah. Welcome to the Happiness Hour. It&#8217;s good to have you here.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>Cami MacNamara 00:00:36&nbsp; Yeah, it&#8217;s great to be here. I&#8217;m so. I&#8217;m always happy to talk to you, Michelle. Like, anytime we get to spend time together, it makes my day.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>Michelle Frechette 00:00:44&nbsp; Absolutely. I feel exactly the same way for. 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I think we&#8217;re both fairly tired at this point.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>It&#8217;s the first day, it&#8217;s Contributor Day, so there&#8217;ll be all of that excitement later. Aaron&#8217;s doing a presentation at WordCamp Asia, and this is what we&#8217;re going to talk about. It&#8217;s called The Future, why Open Web Matters.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>Before we get into that, Aaron, do you just want to give us your little potted bio? Tell us why you are here, who you work for, what it is that you do in the WordPress space.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>[00:04:13] Aaron D. Campbell: Sure, yeah. What do I do in the WordPress space? Well, that has changed a lot over the years, but I&#8217;ve been pretty actively contributing to the WordPress project for about 18 or so years now. Done everything from leading releases and leading the security team to helping put on some of these events like WordCamp US. I work for A2 Hosting, focusing on our products and helping to align what we do with the kind of open web, WordPress ethos that I have at my core.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>[00:04:44] Nathan Wrigley: Can I just ask you, if you&#8217;ve been in the project for as long as you have, which is pretty much the length of the whole project, I think, 18 years or so. But basically you&#8217;ve been in it since the beginning. So it&#8217;s nothing to do with the topic at hand. Are you as excited about WordPress as a thing in 2025 as you were all those years ago?</p>\n\n\n\n<p>[00:05:04] Aaron D. Campbell: Yes. Yes I am. I think that the thing that has kept me around this long, it&#8217;s not easy to do a thing for, you know, going on almost 20 years and to stay excited about it. But I think that the thing that has kept me there is this whole open web concept, and that I see WordPress as a very important counterbalance to some of the closed solutions that exist on the web.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>Having a viable alternative that is open helps keep those other platforms accountable, if you will. And so I think that what&#8217;s kept me around is really that kind of idealistic thing that I have around how important WordPress is. And so, yes, I&#8217;m just as excited about it as I was back then.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>[00:05:47] Nathan Wrigley: It feels like, if we were to rewind the clock 18 years ago, it feels like open was more normal, perhaps than it is now. And I think the closed platforms have monetised their way into the web and have kind of become, in many ways, the default, especially for people who aren&#8217;t in the inner circle of open source projects.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>So for example, the way to carry out messaging online is to go to a closed platform. 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He will delve into the potential consequences of a closed digital ecosystem, and argue why preserving the openness of the web is essential, not only for innovation, but the very fabric of our global society. Discover why the open web matters more now than ever, and what&#8217;s at stake if we lose it.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>So there&#8217;s some fairly powerful words in there, you know, the future of society and so on. However, underpinning it all is this phrase, open web. And it occurs to me that, dear listener, you may not know what that means. So my opening gambit to you Aaron, what is the open web? What does that even mean?</p>\n\n\n\n<p>[00:07:20] Aaron D. Campbell: Honestly, you were talking a little bit about how we see more of these closed platforms now, and maybe it was more the standard 18, 20 years ago, and it&#8217;s true. When the web started around 1991, it was open in that information flowed easily and freely back and forth. And the things that we used to interact with the web, HTTP, HTML, all these things that we use were these open standards that could be implemented by anyone. You could implement them in some sort of closed web browser. You could implement them in an open source web browser. Either way, they were open standards that you could implement.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>And I think that that, where we started is kind of the core of this open that I&#8217;m talking about. It&#8217;s the interoperability, the ability for things to work together for different companies to be able to give you that same experience that you might want to have with their flavor. But if you then choose to leave that company, you can go somewhere else and still have whatever it is that you built, or created, or were using.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>And so open, while I love open source and a lot of what I do is around open source, I don&#8217;t think that open source in and of itself is the open web. It&#8217;s more about this freedom to be able to own your stuff and take it wherever you want to take it. It&#8217;s that interoperability that&#8217;s really at the core of open when I&#8217;m talking about the open web.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>[00:08:48] Nathan Wrigley: So it&#8217;s kind of the ability to pick up your data from one spot. Let&#8217;s say that you&#8217;ve got, well, in the case of WordPress, you&#8217;ve got a blog, you&#8217;ve got content that you&#8217;ve created, text, images and so on. The ability to say, you know what? I&#8217;m fed up with my CMS of choice. I want to move it elsewhere.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>But the same would be the case for, okay, I&#8217;ve got a bunch of messages that I&#8217;ve written to some clients and to some friends. I want to be able to drop that platform and move it over here. So I guess email might be a good example there. You know, there&#8217;s the protocol behind the email, that&#8217;s completely open. It would be crazy if you could only email people who are using the same service that you had. And so you can move providers all the time, but you may not be able to move your email address. So it&#8217;s a sort of complicated picture, but transportability, yeah. Is that possibly it?</p>\n\n\n\n<p>[00:09:30] Aaron D. Campbell: Yeah. I think that your example of, I&#8217;m fed up with my CMS, so I want to go somewhere else. That&#8217;s valid, I guess. But I look at it more from, let&#8217;s say that you&#8217;re a company that sells leather goods, and wherever you have your website has decided that they no longer allow you to sell leather goods on their platform.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>You need to go somewhere else for your own livelihood. You need to be able to go somewhere else. Can you? And if your site is WordPress, and it&#8217;s your host that says, we no longer allow leather goods, you can just move somewhere else. But if your site is on Facebook, and Facebook says that you can&#8217;t do that anymore, you can&#8217;t just take what you have and move somewhere else.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>And that&#8217;s a big difference because that&#8217;s a thing that is key to you continuing to, you know, I don&#8217;t know, run your business, make your money, put food on your table. And so it&#8217;s not just like, I got sick of this tool and wanted to move to another one. I think that part of it is like, who has control, and what are your options if what they want no longer aligns with what you want?</p>\n\n\n\n<p>[00:10:36] Nathan Wrigley: So it really boils down, in your case, to the ability for you to choose where things end. Yeah, choice. A choice. Okay.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>I really haven&#8217;t ever read a history of the internet, but the bits and pieces, the impression that I&#8217;ve got over the years when I&#8217;ve been reading around how the internet began, CERN and ARPANET and those kind of things. When the internet began, I don&#8217;t really know what the enterprise was to begin the whole thing.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>But it felt like it was more or less a service to provide the capability for academics to communicate with each other. There was never this intention that, okay, we&#8217;ll be buying and selling goods online. We&#8217;ll all be communicating through messaging platforms online. We&#8217;ll be sending photos online. So how did the internet begin? Do you know?</p>\n\n\n\n<p>[00:11:20] Aaron D. Campbell: It began open and it began specifically for the purposes of sharing information. The commercial internet exchange was trying to connect all these big networks that had tons of information in them at places like universities, governmental agencies, right? That were these silos of information.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>They wanted to interconnect those networks, make the internet, be able to share data back and forth for the purposes of being able to learn from each other. It was very much an academic pursuit.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>I think that that&#8217;s kind of how we grow our knowledge as people, right? We learn from what other people have learned, and then we learn some more on top of that. And they saw the value of having this kind of connected digital network to share information. And it was only useful if it was open, and that information could flow back and forth freely. And so, yes, you&#8217;re right, it wasn&#8217;t meant to be a commercial endeavor. It was meant to be a knowledge sharing endeavor.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>[00:12:18] Nathan Wrigley: It&#8217;s kind of a really altruistic enterprise when you say it in those terms. It really feels like it&#8217;s for the betterment of humanity. But I&#8217;m sure all of us can imagine scenarios where we think about our use of the internet, and the words, betterment of humanity are just not, well, they&#8217;re just an anathema.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>Because, you know, the internet has undoubtedly caused harms in various ways, and there&#8217;s misinformation being spread and all sorts of things like that, problems that we&#8217;ve got online.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>But I&#8217;m wondering, well, if we were talking about open on all levels of the internet, so for example, the internet that I&#8217;m using, I&#8217;m using a CMS, a web browser. It&#8217;s HTTPS, CSS, JavaScript, those kind of things. But underpinning it all, here&#8217;s my Mac, and the Mac presumably talks to the TCP IP stack, and there&#8217;s a bunch of routers and all of those kind of things going on, holding the internet together. Does all of that stack need to be open, or is it okay for some bits and pieces holding the infrastructure together to be closed?</p>\n\n\n\n<p>Because I&#8217;m not sure that you&#8217;d kind of want the hardware layer, if you know what I mean, some of those bits and pieces. Maybe they need to be, well, maybe they need to be proprietary and closed. I don&#8217;t know. What are your thoughts?</p>\n\n\n\n<p>[00:13:27] Aaron D. Campbell: That&#8217;s a really intriguing question, and I think that for the purposes of just being able to use and enjoy and leverage the internet, no, all those layers do not need to be open. For the purposes of preserving the internet as this information sharing kind of altruistic tool, I think that there needs to be openness at every one of those levels.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>I think that, for example, you were talking about the routers that shift all the information around, and they&#8217;re largely these hardware things, although they do have some software on them. But do all of those need to be open? No. But if one company is the only one that&#8217;s capable of shifting information around the web, then it becomes a problem. So as long as there are viable open alternatives, and some are closed and some are open, great.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>But I don&#8217;t want any company, no matter who it is, you know, in this case maybe a, Cisco is maybe the biggest router company, right? I don&#8217;t want them to be the only one in control of what information can be sent back and forth across the world.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>[00:14:31] Nathan Wrigley: Yeah. I think our conversation is probably going to dwell on the information layer, the bit at the top. So the text that we send and, you know, the images, and the CMS and so on. Now, in the beginning of your presentation, there was a phrase which stuck out because you said, we&#8217;re in a time of unprecedented collaboration, and accelerating human progress is what the internet is kind of all about. It&#8217;s a fairly lofty phrase and I was wondering what you meant by that.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>[00:14:59] Aaron D. Campbell: So first of all, the internet allows for a kind of collaboration that we&#8217;ve never seen before in history, right? Like, collaboration, we all hop on these Zoom calls all the time and think nothing of the fact that I am in an instant virtual video call with people in eight different countries. But that&#8217;s possible. I literally do that almost every single day. People on my team are in the UK, they&#8217;re in Bulgaria, that&#8217;s normal. That was not normal 20 years ago. It was certainly not normal, I guess, what, 40 years ago, pre-internet.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>There is a level of collaboration that can happen now that just never was able to before. And we see that in tons of places. My wife&#8217;s neurologist, I think I gave you this example in some notes that I sent over. She collaborates with neurologists all over the world, live, almost daily. And that&#8217;s mind boggling. But the fact that a neurologist can immediately learn from other specialists, like that is fantastic. That&#8217;s so amazing.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>And so, yeah, it sounds lofty when you put it into words, but the truth is, this is our normal every day, and maybe we&#8217;ve gotten a little used to it. But if you take a step back and look, it&#8217;s amazing what the internet has enabled.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>[00:16:22] Nathan Wrigley: I occasionally, and it really is an example of how quickly you can become, something that is extraordinary becomes completely normal, and you don&#8217;t really expect what&#8217;s going on. But occasionally I have the thought that, I&#8217;ll be looking at my computer, on my phone, and I think what I&#8217;m doing, to my 10-year-old self, was the realm of Star Trek. It was science fiction that there was a device in somebody&#8217;s hand which enabled you to communicate.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>There was a screen which held images on it, and it was all encapsulated in your hand, you know? And obviously Star Trek, well, we&#8217;ve still got a long way to go. We can&#8217;t transport each other across the universe and so on. But it&#8217;s incredibly profound. And the mere fact, just take a look and think about it for a moment. You&#8217;re probably listening to this on a phone, dear listener, and I don&#8217;t know, you&#8217;ve probably got a pair of Bluetooth headphones or something like that.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>This incredible stack of technology, which is now completely normal. You and I collaborating for this episode on a Google Doc. The world has utterly changed, and it really does behoove everyone, once in a while, to take a step back and think, wow, I&#8217;m really lucky.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>[00:17:31] Aaron D. Campbell: I mean, when I was in school, my teacher very specifically would not let us use calculators on tests because, quote, you will not always have a calculator in your pocket. You need to know how to do this. Well, they were wrong. I have a calculator in my pocket, which is actually also a computer connected to every other computer in the world. It&#8217;s astounding how much things have changed.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>[00:17:56] Nathan Wrigley: Yeah, it&#8217;s pretty remarkable. I mean, I guess the next point that I want to raise is that the web, despite the fact that it&#8217;s marvelous in all these ways that we&#8217;ve just described, I think it&#8217;s, well, we&#8217;ve had an era over the last, let&#8217;s say, decade, maybe more, where it feels like the internet has been taken over largely by closed corporate platforms.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>I mean, not to throw any aspersions out there, and not to name only these ones, but the ones which come to mind in my life are Google, dominating search, for example. You know, I basically have outsourced my brain most of the time to Google. I don&#8217;t really think I just Google something, and then trust that what Google gives me back is going to be credible and accurate. And I really give it a hundred percent of that. You know, I don&#8217;t question what it gives back. I assume that the algorithm is doing me justice and doing me a favor.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>And equally things like Facebook over the years, I&#8217;ve invested large amounts of time into that. But it feels like in the last year, so we&#8217;re in 2025, most people have got a slightly different relationship. There&#8217;s maybe a bit more skepticism coming in. We can see the harms that maybe some of these companies are doing. And so this really does feel like a moment where open platforms, WordPress in particular, it&#8217;s an important moment to step up. So really there&#8217;s no question there. It&#8217;s more like, do you have any thoughts about proprietary platforms and their growing dominance?</p>\n\n\n\n<p>[00:19:17] Aaron D. Campbell: Yeah. First of all, I hope that you are right and that in 2025 we&#8217;re seeing some of that, kind of, questioning of whether these closed, for-profit platforms are really doing what&#8217;s best for us. Because I know that they&#8217;re doing what&#8217;s best for them. The question is whether that is also what&#8217;s best for us. Companies like Facebook, like Google, they&#8217;re looking out for themselves. The question is, does that help us?</p>\n\n\n\n<p>You&#8217;re right, we&#8217;ve all outsourced our brain to Google in many ways. I mean, when you talk about, I don&#8217;t know, researching a thing, you don&#8217;t even say, I&#8217;m going to go research it. You say, I&#8217;m going to go Google it. That&#8217;s what that means in our vernacular. And I think that, I hope that, people are really starting to realise, not that that&#8217;s bad because I don&#8217;t think it is, I am actually super thankful that Google makes it so easy for me to learn so many things. I love that.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>But I hope that they, everyone&#8217;s starting to understand some of the potential risks there. Is it good that you don&#8217;t even question whether what Google fed back to you is the right thing? Does Google get to decide what we&#8217;re able to learn or not learn now? Is that healthy for us?</p>\n\n\n\n<p>I would love if people are asking those kinds of questions, because it pushes toward having more alternatives. How do you go check, if you decide that you&#8217;re not sure if Google&#8217;s really looking out for you, how do you go check that? What do you use to make sure that Google&#8217;s still giving you what you ought to get? And if you go looking for that, that&#8217;s good. Going and looking for those alternatives, ensuring that there is a choice keeps us from being locked in, in a way that becomes unhealthy.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>[00:21:11] Nathan Wrigley: I think my intuition is that increasingly these platforms seem to be tied up in profit motives, and so, the example that comes to mind in my head is the algorithmic feed in your social network of choice, really. Insert whichever platform you want there. But the idea that it will maximize engagement at any cost.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>So if it can keep your eyes glued to the screen for another minute, that&#8217;s a win, regardless of whether or not that information that&#8217;s being given to you is good. And I&#8217;m doing air quotes. And so if that were to creep into, for example, Google search, okay, can we keep you on our platform? I know that&#8217;s a silly example because that&#8217;s not really the point of Google, but you get the point.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>And what I&#8217;m wondering is, is profit really kind of the enemy here? Does everything have to be freely done by volunteers for it to be open? Because there&#8217;s this feeling, it feels that there&#8217;s a bit of that in the open source community. You know, if it&#8217;s done by volunteers, if it&#8217;s done for free, if you can access it completely for free, if the platform&#8217;s code is verifiable and open on the web, is that better? So, yeah, sorry there&#8217;s a lot there.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>[00:22:18] Aaron D. Campbell: Well, first of all, I&#8217;ll go ahead and plant my flag on this one. And it&#8217;s maybe not the most popular opinion amongst the hardcore open source people that I honestly spend a lot of time with and work with regularly. But I don&#8217;t think profit is bad. I don&#8217;t. But if that is the core motive and that becomes the only tool that you have is one that is focused on profiting off of you, then yeah, there are concerns.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>If Facebook, you&#8217;re right, or any of these social networks, they want to keep you around as long as they can because that&#8217;s their profit model. However, it doesn&#8217;t mean that you can&#8217;t profit off of open, and I am fine with profit as long as there is open. There are many companies in our space that make really good profit implementing WordPress solutions. That is open. The companies that they are implementing those solutions for own their own data. They can move it wherever they want. That&#8217;s great, even if there&#8217;s profit there.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>And so I don&#8217;t think that profit alone is the enemy, but it does seem like most of these kind of closed solutions, yeah, are by for profit companies that are just looking to profit. And again, I think it comes down to choice. As long as there are enough options out there, you&#8217;re not beholden to just the one model from the one company. You know, social networks is a good example. If there&#8217;s something that&#8217;s a problem with you and Facebook, you can go to some other social network. There are other options. It&#8217;s when it&#8217;s a for-profit and just one option that it really starts to become a problem.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>[00:24:03] Nathan Wrigley: I think it&#8217;s really a difficult thread to get right in our community. Because the WordPress community in particular does seem to have two sides. There&#8217;s the real for-profit side, and obviously we&#8217;re here at WordCamp Asia, and if we were to walk into any of the sponsor booths, there&#8217;s a bunch of companies here. And I imagine the fact that they can sponsor, they&#8217;re making a healthy profit. You know, they&#8217;re sending staff here and they&#8217;ve got a booth and so on.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>But then there&#8217;s also the more, and again, I&#8217;m doing air quotes here, there&#8217;s the more community side, which seem to see that as a bit of a trade off. We&#8217;ve got to have these people here, but on some level it would be better if they weren&#8217;t here. If we could just do the whole thing more non-profit, that would be better. So I feel that the community we&#8217;ve got, that&#8217;s a difficult tightrope to tread.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>[00:24:48] Aaron D. Campbell: It&#8217;s a very difficult tightrope to tread. The way that I thread it, I get the altruistic, if we could do everything just volunteer, but we could also have diverse volunteers and many volunteers with different points of view, and different sort of technical backgrounds, right? So that we could build a thing that works for everyone, that would be great.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>But that&#8217;s really difficult because you see many open source projects that had that and built up and then failed and have sort of disappeared, because it&#8217;s very difficult to have longevity in that. To have people that stay around long enough.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>And so I think that what the for-profit side does in our WordPress space is it helps ensure the longevity because those companies, hosts, for example, are hosting many, many thousands, or tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands of WordPress sites, they&#8217;re making money off of that. 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And also if you think about it in the long march of history, the internet is still in its infancy. And these open source platforms, this idea of volunteering your time for a global project is quite a new thing. We are just figuring it out.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>And so whilst you and I are inside the baseball, we hear the arguments from both sides all the time, give it another a hundred years and no doubt things will have bedded down and the arguments would&#8217;ve been done this way and that way, and hopefully things figured out. So to me, it&#8217;s pretty remarkable that we&#8217;ve even got 20 years under our belt. Yeah, there&#8217;s going to be some disagreements along the way.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>[00:27:15] Aaron D. Campbell: The internet sort of, as we know, it&#8217;s about 34 years old. 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Es fehlte mir aber auch an nichts: ich hatte Zugang zu einer guten Ausbildung, stabilen Strukturen und einem Umfeld, das mich ermutigte, meinen eigenen Weg zu gehen. Auch diese Werte prägen mich auch heute noch. Diese Haltung meines Vaters habe ich mir zu eigen gemacht. Nur das mein Handwerk digital ist.</p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Perspektivwechsel: Leben und Arbeiten in Kenia</h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Seit sieben Jahren lebe ich nun in Kenia. Die Entscheidung war bewusst – nicht getrieben von einem Aussteigen-Wollen, sondern von Neugier. Auch das ein Neuwieder Wert. <a href=\"https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maximilian_zu_Wied-Neuwied\">Prinz Maximilian zu Wied bereiste</a> in im 19. Jahrhundert Nord- und Südamerika und lieferte mit seinen Forschungen die Vorlagen für <a href=\"https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl_May\">Karl Mays</a> Abenteuerromane, die wir als Kinder verschlagen. Nun wollte ich entdecken, wie sich meine Fähigkeiten, meine Werte, mein Beruf in einem anderen Kontext bewähren. Und ich sollte herausfinden, ob das, was ich als „normal“ empfand, nicht wirklich so universell ist.</p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>Die kulturellen Unterschiede sind nicht nur spannend, sie sind extrem lehrreich.</p>\n</blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>Deutschland ist geprägt von Struktur, Planung, Effizienz. In Kenia zählen Flexibilität, Netzwerke, situatives Handeln. Entscheidungen brauchen oft mehr Kontext, da sie soziale Beziehungen berücksichtigen müssen. Zeit wird anders erlebt, Vertrauen entsteht nicht durch Verträge, sondern durch Präsenz und Zuverlässigkeit über längere Zeiträume. Meine Toleranz und Offenheit wurde mehr denn je auf die Probe gestellt. Aber: Unterschiede sind kein Nachteil. 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Schlimmstenfalls ist es eine Frage des Geldes um ein Visum zu erhalten, das Flugticket zu bezahlen und für ein paar Tage Unterkunft und Verpflegung zu finden. 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Unsere Sicht von außen auf Afrika wurde uns &#8211; mir zumindest &#8211; in der Schule falsch vermittelt. Die <a href=\"https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercator-Projektion\">Merkator-Projektion</a> macht den Kontinent kleiner als er ist. Und damit in unseren westlichen Köpfen unbedeutender. Schon alleine die Flugstrecken von einem Ende zum anderen sind doppelt so groß wie die, die wir in den USA oder in Europa zurücklegen. Die Billig-Airlines die z.T. Preise anbieten, die eher nach Busfahrten klingen, gibt es in Afrika nicht. Um von Kenia nach Nigeria &#8211; zwei der großen Volkswirtschaften &#8211; zu kommen, bedarf es auch mit dem Flieger einer Tagesreise mit dem Umweg über Äthiopien. Und auch wenn WordPress Entwickler dank Remote Zugang zu Projekten die Möglichkeiten haben mehr zu verdienen als der Durchschnitts-Kenianer, sind die Kosten für die Teilnahme an einem WordCamp außerhalb des eigenen Landes immer noch prohibitiv hoch. Zum Vergleich: das kenianische Durchschnittseinkommen liegt bei ca. $ 250 pro Monat. Flug und Unterkunft zum WordCamp Nairobi kosteten einen Teilnehmer aus Kamerun ca. $1.500.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ich habe auf meinem &#8211; nicht sehr gut gepflegten &#8211; <a href=\"https://stefankremer.de/2023/11/wordcamp-east-africa/\">persönlichen Blog</a> (in englisch) ein bisschen ausführlicher darüber geschrieben.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>Auch wenn die Grundidee aus dem Jahr 2019 ist und der Artikel im Jahr 2023 geschrieben wurde, ist trotzdem alles noch anderthalb Jahre später gültig.</p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p><strong>„With great power comes great responsibility.“</strong><br />&#8212; *Uncle Ben in Stan Lee’s Spider-Man</p>\n</blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>Für mich gewinnt er eine neue Bedeutung, wenn man „power“ durch „privilege“ ersetzt. 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This remarkable finding from Omnisend&#8217;s research of over 128,000 email campaigns confirms a universal truth about sign-up pages: Simplicity drives success.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>But just being simple isn’t enough – you need to find the balance between collecting essential user data and reducing &#8220;information friction&#8221;. Each additional field creates potential hesitation, yet too little information limits personalization opportunities. The most effective sign-up pages manage this tension masterfully, gathering just enough details without overwhelming potential users.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>We&#8217;re going to give you 9 sign-up page examples that will help skyrocket conversion rates on your website or platform&#8217;s sign-up page! 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Successful pages don&#8217;t just look good – they strategically reduce obstacles while maximizing value perception.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>The best sign-up experiences balance several competing factors.&nbsp;</p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>They collect enough information to personalize the user experience without creating excessive friction.&nbsp;</li>\n\n\n\n<li>They showcase the product&#8217;s value while keeping focus on completing registration.&nbsp;</li>\n\n\n\n<li>They build trust through transparency while maintaining a clean interface.</li>\n</ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Every element matters: The number of form fields, button text, color psychology, placement of social proof elements, and even microcopy that addresses potential concerns. A visitor&#8217;s decision to sign up happens in seconds, making these subtle optimizations crucial.&nbsp;</p>\n\n\n\n<p>The examples covered in this article span the full spectrum of approaches. Some use extreme minimalism with just an email field and a strong call to action, while others carefully structure multi-step processes that break complex registrations into digestible chunks. Each represents a different solution to the sign-up challenge, optimized for specific business goals and user expectations.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>Many of these strategies are also part of trends, like the minimalistic approach. If we think about how pages used to be 10 years ago, the difference is massive. New trends will continue to reshape best practices, and an example of that is the integration of profile verification systems that allow users to authenticate via existing accounts, eliminating repetitive form-filling.&nbsp;</p>\n\n\n\n<p>Services like <a href=\"https://gravatar.com/\">Gravatar</a> enable universal profile management, where users maintain a single identity across multiple platforms. This &#8220;update once, apply everywhere&#8221; approach simplifies sign-up flows while ensuring consistent user experiences.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>Trust-building has also become central to sign-up design. With growing privacy concerns, successful pages now clearly communicate how user data will be used and protected. Transparent privacy controls, simple explanations of data policies, and explicit consent mechanisms help overcome skepticism and build confidence during registration.</p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Design Inspiration from Leading Brands</strong></h2>\n\n\n\n<p>In this section, we&#8217;re going to dive into sign-up page strategies from several industry leaders that go beyond basic design principles. 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PayPal</strong></h4>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https://www.paypal.com/\">PayPal&#8217;s</a> sign-up approach breaks down what could be an overwhelming verification process into a series of manageable steps.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>This is done through a progressive disclosure system – rather than presenting users with a lengthy form containing numerous fields, PayPal segments the process into distinct stages.&nbsp;</p>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Choose the type of account.&nbsp;</li>\n</ol>\n\n\n\n<img width=\"1648\" height=\"1158\" src=\"https://blog.gravatar.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/paypal-signup-page.png\" alt=\"Creating a new PayPal account: Choosing between personal and business\" class=\"wp-image-3042\" />\n\n\n\n<ol start=\"2\" class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Fill in basic information.&nbsp;</li>\n</ol>\n\n\n\n<img width=\"1422\" height=\"903\" src=\"https://blog.gravatar.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/paypal-business-account-creation.png\" alt=\"PayPal basic sign-up form\" class=\"wp-image-3043\" />\n\n\n\n<ol start=\"3\" class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Verify your email address.&nbsp;</li>\n</ol>\n\n\n\n<img width=\"943\" height=\"495\" src=\"https://blog.gravatar.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/paypal-code-confirmation-screen.png\" alt=\"PayPal code verification page\" class=\"wp-image-3044\" />\n\n\n\n<p>That’s it! You officially have a PayPal account. Of course, in order to actually use the account, people need to give further information about their business, but even that’s broken down into manageable steps, and you also have the option to skip the process for the time being.&nbsp;</p>\n\n\n\n<img width=\"1007\" height=\"658\" src=\"https://blog.gravatar.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/paypal-second-phase-signup.png\" alt=\"PayPal account activation page\" class=\"wp-image-3045\" />\n\n\n\n<p>This chunking technique achieves two important goals. First, it makes the process feel less daunting by hiding the total complexity up front. Second, it creates a sense of investment – once users complete the first step, they&#8217;re more likely to continue through subsequent stages.&nbsp;</p>\n\n\n\n<p>See how they continue with the business account setup: First, you only have to click a button and select your business type from a drop-down menu, and only after that do you see the longer form with important information.&nbsp;</p>\n\n\n\n<img width=\"660\" height=\"371\" src=\"https://blog.gravatar.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/paypal-signup-flow.gif?w=660\" alt=\"PayPal signup flow for business account creation\" class=\"wp-image-3047\" />\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>2. Mailchimp&nbsp;</strong></h4>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https://mailchimp.com/\">MailChimp&#8217;s</a> sign-up flow also uses the power of intelligent progressive disclosure. Their form initially appears simple, requesting only essential information like name, email, and password. But this simplicity hides sophisticated mechanics working behind the scenes.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>As users begin creating a password, MailChimp reveals password requirements in real time, eliminating the frustration of form rejections after submission.&nbsp;</p>\n\n\n\n<img width=\"660\" height=\"489\" src=\"https://blog.gravatar.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/mailchimp-signup-form.png?w=660\" alt=\"Mailchimp signup page\" class=\"wp-image-3048\" />\n\n\n\n<p>This interactive guidance helps users succeed without overwhelming them with requirements upfront.</p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>3.</strong> <strong>Typeform</strong></h4>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https://www.typeform.com/\">Typeform</a> specializes in creating engaging form experiences and naturally applies its expertise to the sign-up process, embodying the company&#8217;s philosophy: Forms should be conversational and human.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>Users can register with email or authenticate through existing <a href=\"https://www.google.com/\">Google</a> or <a href=\"https://www.microsoft.com/\">Microsoft</a> accounts, so they can choose their preferred method without dealing with a cluttered interface.</p>\n\n\n\n<img width=\"660\" height=\"305\" src=\"https://blog.gravatar.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/typeform-signup-page.png?w=660\" alt=\"Typeform signup page\" class=\"wp-image-3049\" />\n\n\n\n<p>What sets Typeform&#8217;s approach apart is how it uses conversational prompts and subtle animations to guide users through each step. Despite offering multiple sign-up options, the page maintains visual simplicity through thoughtful spacing, typography hierarchy, and focused interaction design.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>Typeform also takes advantage of Gravatar integration to further improve the experience. For users with existing Gravatar profiles, their avatar automatically appears in the interface after registration.</p>\n\n\n\n<img width=\"660\" height=\"365\" src=\"https://blog.gravatar.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/typeform-gravatar-integration.png?w=660\" alt=\"Typeform Gravatar integration in profile settings\" class=\"wp-image-3050\" />\n\n\n\n<p>This eliminates the need to manually upload profile images and creates an immediate sense of personalization that makes the platform feel familiar right from the start.</p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>4. SalesForce</strong></h4>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https://www.salesforce.com/eu/\">SalesForce</a> tackles the challenge of gathering user information while maintaining engagement through its multi-step trial registration form and a progress tracking system. Clear indicators show users exactly where they are in the process and how many questions remain.&nbsp;</p>\n\n\n\n<img width=\"660\" height=\"472\" src=\"https://blog.gravatar.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/salesforce-signup-form.png?w=660\" alt=\"SalesForce signup page\" class=\"wp-image-3052\" />\n\n\n\n<p>This transparency helps set appropriate expectations and reduces abandonment by making the remaining effort visible.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>Each step collects related information chunks, allowing users to focus on one category at a time rather than facing a wall of fields. This reduces cognitive load while still gathering all necessary data for effective lead qualification.</p>\n\n\n\n<img width=\"646\" height=\"606\" src=\"https://blog.gravatar.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/salesforce-step2.png?w=646\" alt=\"Salesforce signup step 2 of 3\" class=\"wp-image-3053\" />\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Social proof and trust signals that work</strong></h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Social proof elements transform sign-up pages from simple data collection forms into persuasive marketing tools. When implemented effectively, these trust signals overcome hesitation and provide the final push users need to complete registration.</p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>5. Webflow</strong></h4>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https://webflow.com/\">Webflow</a> positions itself as a sophisticated CMS and website-building platform for professionals seeking more control than traditional systems like <a href=\"https://wordpress.org/\">WordPress</a>. Their sign-up page reinforces this premium positioning through strategic social proof.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>The form displays logos from high-profile clients, including <a href=\"http://monday.com\">Monday.com</a> and <a href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/international/\">The New York Times</a>.&nbsp;</p>\n\n\n\n<img width=\"660\" height=\"346\" src=\"https://blog.gravatar.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/webflow-signup-page.png?w=660\" alt=\"Webflow signup page\" class=\"wp-image-3054\" />\n\n\n\n<p>These recognizable brands create an immediate trust signal, showing potential users that Webflow is used by serious organizations.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>Their team-focused messaging targets decision-makers directly. Rather than addressing individual users, the copy speaks to teams and organizations, prompting leaders to envision how Webflow might serve their entire department or company.</p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>6. OptinMonster</strong></h4>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https://optinmonster.com/\">OptInMonster</a>, a conversion rate optimization platform, integrates social proof directly into their sign-up process. As specialists in conversion tactics, they practice what they preach in their own registration flow.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>The pricing page includes customer testimonials strategically positioned near decision points. These elements appear directly below pricing information, precisely where potential customers might hesitate.</p>\n\n\n\n<img width=\"660\" height=\"329\" src=\"https://blog.gravatar.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/optinmonster-payment_signup-page.png?w=660\" alt=\"OptinMonster checkout page with a verified customer review\" class=\"wp-image-3055\" />\n\n\n\n<p>The social proof sits alongside automatically applied discounts, creating a powerful combination. The discount creates a sense of value, while testimonials confirm that value through third-party validation, addressing both cost concerns and the need for reassurance at the critical moment of decision.</p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>7. Kit</strong></h4>\n\n\n\n<p>The email marketing platform <a href=\"https://kit.com/\">Kit</a> takes a personal approach to social proof. Their sign-up page features rotating full-sized images of actual Kit users, with different creator portraits appearing with each page refresh.</p>\n\n\n\n<img width=\"660\" height=\"259\" src=\"https://blog.gravatar.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/kit-sign-up-page.png?w=660\" alt=\"Kit sign-up page\" class=\"wp-image-3078\" />\n\n\n\n<p>This visual representation helps potential subscribers see themselves reflected in the current user base, creating immediate identification. The rotating images suggest a large, active community without explicitly stating numbers.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>By helping visitors envision themselves as part of this community before they even sign up, Kit creates perceived value that motivates form completion and reduces registration friction.</p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Smart form optimization techniques</strong></h3>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>8. OpenAI</strong></h4>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https://openai.com/\">OpenAI</a>, the company behind ChatGPT and other groundbreaking AI tools, has a sign-up flow that requires just two essential fields: An email address and a password (that is if users don’t want to login with an existing account). This ultra-minimalist approach removes almost all barriers to entry while still collecting the information needed to create an account.</p>\n\n\n\n<img width=\"660\" height=\"368\" src=\"https://blog.gravatar.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/chatgpt-registration-form.png?w=660\" alt=\"ChatGPT signup page\" class=\"wp-image-3056\" />\n\n\n\n<p>What makes this approach particularly effective is OpenAI&#8217;s Gravatar integration. The system automatically pulls in user avatars through <a href=\"https://docs.gravatar.com/api/avatars/images/\">Gravatar&#8217;s Avatar API</a>, enhancing the profile without requiring manual uploads. 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But really, it&#8217;s not just copy, pasting from example, it&#8217;s playing with it and understanding how it is connected.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>And once it&#8217;s clicked in your mind, it&#8217;s mind blowing. It&#8217;s like a game. Well, the coding for me is like a game. That&#8217;s why I started coding. But it is very interesting that you can, you know, play with it, you can break it, you can find different ways. And I was playing with putting the same code in different places to see if it will work, it will.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>So there is a new skill that we will see with Interactivity API, like the most beautiful code and the most beautiful place where you put that code. And I think it&#8217;s very much open for optimising code. And you&#8217;ll see there the level of expertise of developer for how much they understand the optimisation of JavaScript code.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>[00:21:45] <strong>Nathan Wrigley:</strong> Is the Interactivity API, how to describe it, is it finished?</p>\n\n\n\n<p>[00:21:49] <strong>Milana Cap:</strong> No.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>[00:21:50] <strong>Nathan Wrigley:</strong> Yeah. I mean, basically nothing in WordPress really is ever quite finished, is it?</p>\n\n\n\n<p>[00:21:54] <strong>Milana Cap:</strong> If you software, then it&#8217;s never finished.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>[00:21:56] <strong>Nathan Wrigley:</strong> No. But would you say it already has pretty much everything that you require it to have? Or can you imagine scenarios where it would be really nice to have this feature or this feature? What I&#8217;m trying to get to is, is it still under active development? Can people listening to this podcast who think that that would be an interesting use of their time to help contribute to that, is there still work to be done? And where would we go to get involved in that?</p>\n\n\n\n<p>[00:22:21] <strong>Milana Cap:</strong> You can go to, there is a GitHub issue that is called Interactivity API showcase. It&#8217;s in Gutenberg repository. And you&#8217;ll see a lot of different ideas, how people want to use Interactivity API. And you will, when you start looking at those examples, you start to get ideas, what you could use it for. And you get to remember all the projects you had that you could really use Interactivity API there.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>I don&#8217;t think it&#8217;s done. I don&#8217;t think it&#8217;ll ever be done because, you know, clients get very creative with things they want. And I think we can&#8217;t even imagine what we would want until we get to the request to do it for a project. So there&#8217;s a lot of things to do, as in feature terms, but there&#8217;s always, you know, fixing code, optimising here and there and cleaning things up. And then there&#8217;s an update from library that it depends on, and then you have to, you know, do that. So there&#8217;s always maintenance if you use software. It&#8217;s never done.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>[00:23:31] <strong>Nathan Wrigley:</strong> I feel like if you are, let&#8217;s say 18 years old, you&#8217;ve been brought up in an era where you&#8217;ve had a phone in your hand and the apps on the phone are kind of what you&#8217;ve grown up with expecting from things online. And everything over on the phone is interactive. There&#8217;s just this expectation that you can click a button and it will do some desired action over there.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>And it feels like a website that doesn&#8217;t have interactivity is almost, well, I mean, I know you can have brochure websites and things like that where it&#8217;s just static content. It feels like that&#8217;s the expectation and it&#8217;s more and more going to be the expectation. So if a project like this hadn&#8217;t come along, WordPress websites would&#8217;ve felt really strange. You know, stuck in the past in a way, because of that lack of interactivity.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>And now hopefully developers who haven&#8217;t got the time, the budget or the experience to do this on their own, hopefully they can start offering solutions by just reading the documentation and not having to dig into the weeds of absolutely everything, just implement what&#8217;s been written for you, and hopefully that&#8217;ll bring WordPress more into the year 2025.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>[00:24:36] <strong>Milana Cap:</strong> Well, I think that if you take from that perspective, like you are 18 years old and have everything, all the apps you want in your phone, I think that WordPress is already weird to them. They are not using CMS, it&#8217;s too much effort for the things they can do with another app in their phone.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>But I don&#8217;t think that WordPress is for them. I mean, WordPress is CMS. So it&#8217;s meant to be used with purpose while kids today still look for, you know, quick content that they can, my daughter is 21 years old and she sends me, you know, memes and videos all the time. Most often than not, yeah, I tell her I don&#8217;t understand this. And she says, well, it&#8217;s funny because it&#8217;s stupid. I say, I still don&#8217;t understand this.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>I mean, she understands the life cycle of something that is meaningful, something that is important. And that is something that we would use WordPress for. But their concentration and focus span is just, give me this stupid video, that&#8217;s funny because it&#8217;s stupid, and I&#8217;ll move on. So I don&#8217;t think we should even try to put WordPress there and try to satisfy that request. But still there are requests that Interactivity API does satisfy. And that was needed to be added to WordPress.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>[00:26:07] <strong>Nathan Wrigley:</strong> Yeah, it&#8217;s certainly nice for developers not to have to, well just basically roll their own solution and waste tons of time doing something 1,000 times, literally 1,000, maybe 10,000 times done differently. Whereas now everybody can just lean into this one implementation, and it&#8217;s baked into Core. And then everybody can inject things into, on top of your code, and you can look at other people&#8217;s code and extend it in that way. So hopefully that will mean that, you know, the project as a whole can move forward.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>Let&#8217;s move on to something that I literally know nothing about, HTML API. You&#8217;re going to have to go from the very most basic description and I will try to keep up.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>[00:26:46] <strong>Milana Cap:</strong> Well, HTML API is actually what powers Interactivity API. So we wouldn&#8217;t have Interactivity API as it is right now, if we didn&#8217;t have HTML API. For now we have two classes that we can use, HTML tag processor. Which is idea to use PHP to modify attributes in Gutenberg blocks, in their markup. Because it was so difficult to approach the block to get to that code and modify anything once it&#8217;s on the page.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>So the HTML tag processor is just working with the attributes in markup. But it was meant to be used for Gutenberg blocks, but it really doesn&#8217;t matter what you use, it&#8217;ll process any HTML if it finds it. And it&#8217;s very useful for many things that we would use jQuery for before, and we would load the whole JavaScript file. You can add, remove, classes. You can set the aspect ratio for iframe. You can set image size attributes. You can add accessibility attributes where you need them.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>And it&#8217;s all happening in PHP, you know, on the page load. It&#8217;s very fast. 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And it covers all edge cases. There are no surprises because it&#8217;s been built with HTML standards. So it supports every type of HTML that we will probably never see in our lives. You know, all the broken stuff and all of it, it supports it. And it&#8217;s been built by Dennis Snell. That is something unlike Interactivity API.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>So we saw that Laravel has it, and Symphony has it, and Phoenix first did it. But this is something that nobody has. This is our own. And Dennis now built it from zero, completely custom. And he&#8217;s now working in putting it into PHP. So it&#8217;ll be available, yeah, to everyone. That&#8217;s a really big thing.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>I gave this talk in September at PHP Serbia and people were sitting, you know, PHP developers who are working with Symphony and Laravel and doing custom PHP, and they were like, oh my God. And I was like, yeah, WordPress has something you don&#8217;t have. That was really nice feeling. Yeah, I like that Dennis is actually putting that into PHP.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>[00:31:30] <strong>Nathan Wrigley:</strong> So again, like I did with the Interactivity API, I&#8217;m going to do the same here. Let me just see if I&#8217;ve understood what it is. So the idea really, if you want to interact with the DOM, right now, the typical way of doing that is with some JavaScript or other. So let&#8217;s say for example, I don&#8217;t know, you want to do the third child of a div, and you want to put a border around that.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>With JavaScript, you&#8217;re going to find that third div, and then you&#8217;re going to insert some class, which will then get modified by the CSS to add a border and a border radius, and what have you. So that&#8217;s all done on the client side. Page loads, JavaScript loads, and then the DOM gets rewritten by the JavaScript.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>But in this scenario, it&#8217;s going server side. It is PHP. So it&#8217;s really much more readable and maintainable, and it all just lives in this one spot with all the other PHP. And then you would write something, basically the same thing, but in PHP, to do the same job. And then WordPress, so there&#8217;s no rewriting of the DOM. WordPress writes the DOM with that in mind. So the output HTML already has that in it. You&#8217;re not using JavaScript to rewrite what&#8217;s already been written, so it speeds things up as well.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>[00:32:39] <strong>Milana Cap:</strong> Yes, yes. You have less requests because there&#8217;s no file that you are requesting. There&#8217;s no waiting on, you know, everything to load. And to rewrite it, it&#8217;s just going right there.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>[00:32:51] <strong>Nathan Wrigley:</strong> So it&#8217;s the same process though. The way that you would do it in JavaScript, you&#8217;re now just transferring that into PHP, but the method that you&#8217;re using to do it would be the same, you know, search for the third child of this parent div, and then give it an extra class and that&#8217;s what happens.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>[00:33:04] <strong>Milana Cap:</strong> Yes.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>[00:33:05] <strong>Nathan Wrigley:</strong> Okay. Yeah, that&#8217;s really straightforward. And really, really, really powerful.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>[00:33:09] <strong>Milana Cap:</strong> It is.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>[00:33:10] <strong>Nathan Wrigley:</strong> Because not only can you write your own thing in that way, but if you want to upend what&#8217;s already been written by, I don&#8217;t know, let&#8217;s say there&#8217;s something strange in a plugin that you&#8217;ve downloaded. Would this be able to rewrite the things that the plugin is injecting?</p>\n\n\n\n<p>[00:33:23] <strong>Milana Cap:</strong> Yes.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>[00:33:23] <strong>Nathan Wrigley:</strong> Okay, so you can, I don&#8217;t know, let&#8217;s say there&#8217;s a plugin which does something quirky in the HTML, you don&#8217;t like it, you want to strip something out or add something in. It sits between where the plugin injects its code and where the end user receives the HTML.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>[00:33:35] <strong>Milana Cap:</strong> Yeah.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>[00:33:35] <strong>Nathan Wrigley:</strong> That is interesting. So it&#8217;s a total rewrite of the HTML.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>[00:33:38] <strong>Milana Cap:</strong> Mm-hmm.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>[00:33:39] <strong>Nathan Wrigley:</strong> That is fascinating.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>[00:33:41] <strong>Milana Cap:</strong> Yeah, and it&#8217;s fast. It&#8217;s actually working faster than when you would load JavaScript for that.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>[00:33:48] <strong>Nathan Wrigley:</strong> So in many cases it renders much of the JavaScript, the JavaScript that&#8217;s being used to modify the DOM. It completely negates the need for that?</p>\n\n\n\n<p>[00:33:59] <strong>Milana Cap:</strong> Yes.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>[00:33:59] <strong>Nathan Wrigley:</strong> Have you found it easy to learn this?</p>\n\n\n\n<p>[00:34:01] <strong>Milana Cap:</strong> Yeah, yeah. It&#8217;s very easy. It&#8217;s even easier than Interactivity API. It&#8217;s just, you know, you instantiate the class, pass the string to it that you want to, you know, search for tags, and then you have methods. You call the method and loop through the things, or you don&#8217;t have to loop, depending what you are looking for. And there is a method, remove attribute, add attribute, remove class. You know, it&#8217;s that easy.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>[00:34:28] <strong>Nathan Wrigley:</strong> And, like everything in WordPress, you said earlier, it&#8217;s never finished. There&#8217;ll always be work done on it. But as of now, we&#8217;re recording this late February, 2025, is it pretty complete for all the things that you&#8217;ve wished to do? Does it have an answer for that, or is there still work to be done?</p>\n\n\n\n<p>[00:34:42] <strong>Milana Cap:</strong> The HTML processor needs to be optimised, so it&#8217;s not completely production ready yet. Tag processor is optimised and ready to use, and we actually used it in 2023. We waited for new release when it was coming into Core. We waited for two weeks and delayed the deployment to get it in to actually, because that example that I used for removing no-follow attribute from internal links, that&#8217;s the real world example that we had. And it was really annoying problem that was so easily fixed with five lines of code, once the HTML API got into Core.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>[00:35:25] <strong>Nathan Wrigley:</strong> I obsess about WordPress, like that&#8217;s all I think about most days basically, and yet this is somehow completely passed me by. The Interactivity API, somehow that captured my attention. There must have been some press release, or something to explain that this is happening. But the HTML API completely passed me by. I wonder if that&#8217;s just my lack of trying hard enough.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>[00:35:46] <strong>Milana Cap:</strong> No, that was actually the case for many people. So for that WordPress release, I was leading the documentation focus. So I know, I wrote the field guide, and I knew that was there. But many people didn&#8217;t know.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>And that idea behind this new series of talks that I do. So to find these, it&#8217;s very good that these things come into Core slowly, like piece by piece. What is ready? What is optimised? But because they are small, people don&#8217;t hear about them, because we don&#8217;t advertise that. And Interactivity API is, it gets the same treatment as any other Gutenberg feature. Like, oh, it&#8217;s flashy, it&#8217;s new, come see this.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>But HTML API is completely PHP. It actually powers Interactivity API, but nobody knows that. And those were like small pieces getting in, because its purpose was to serve Gutenberg. So it wasn&#8217;t really advertised as something you can use for other things. But you know developers, they find ways to use something for different things.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>And that&#8217;s why I wanted to create these talks to actually show people there are so many things you can do with WordPress now that are new. And you can use them today, and tomorrow they will be even better.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>[00:37:14] <strong>Nathan Wrigley:</strong> I guess with the Interactivity API you are solving a really hard problem. So to be able to modify one part of the page, it&#8217;s content and it&#8217;s a separate block, that&#8217;s a difficult thing to overcome. So there&#8217;s a lot of work to get over that. But if you just want to add a border to the third child of a div, everybody&#8217;s using the same JavaScript technique to do it. So there&#8217;s a well understood way of doing it.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>And so that, I suppose, leads to the question, what is the benefit over just using JavaScript? Why would we want to use the HTML API instead of just the familiar thing, which probably everybody&#8217;s doing, you know, just rewrite things with JavaScript. Is it basically coming down to ease of readability for everybody, and speed?</p>\n\n\n\n<p>[00:37:57] <strong>Milana Cap:</strong> Yeah. I think if you take a look at, for example, enterprise projects. The way developers optimise the code, it&#8217;s like every piece of millisecond counts because these projects are huge, and they have a lot of visits. So if you can remove all the JavaScript, I mean, that&#8217;s huge. That is making such impact, and it brings you like 10 places before your competition. Doing just that is enough to use this over JavaScript.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>But also, it replaces not just need for JavaScript, but need for regex as well. And again, in enterprise projects, when you have huge databases running regex and having potential to not work everywhere where it&#8217;s supposed to work, as opposed to this, that is very straightforward. Not too many lines of code, and it&#8217;s actually faster. You would take that chance.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>[00:39:03] <strong>Nathan Wrigley:</strong> Yeah, I guess if you&#8217;ve just got like a five page brochure website, that&#8217;s for a mom and pop store, you&#8217;re probably not going to be worrying too much. But if you&#8217;ve got an enterprise page, you know, an enterprise level website which is maybe getting, I don&#8217;t know, 50,000 hits every hour or something like that. Shaving 10 milliseconds out, multiply that by 50,000, I mean, not only is it quicker, so Google likes it, but also the cost of everything goes down. You know, there&#8217;s less bits flying across the internet. It&#8217;s all been optimised. And I guess at the enterprise level, all of those things matter.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>[00:39:36] <strong>Milana Cap:</strong> Yeah, everything matters.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>[00:39:37] <strong>Nathan Wrigley:</strong> Yeah, that&#8217;s fascinating, genuinely fascinating, and something that I&#8217;d never heard of. So I will go and, when I&#8217;ve edited this podcast, I&#8217;ll go and preach the gospel of the HTML and Interactivity APIs. That&#8217;s everything I wanted to ask. Milana, is there anything that you wanted to get across that I didn&#8217;t ask?</p>\n\n\n\n<p>[00:39:53] <strong>Milana Cap:</strong> No.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>[00:39:54] <strong>Nathan Wrigley:</strong> No. In that case, Milana Cap, thank you very much for chatting to me today. Really appreciate it. I hope you enjoy the rest of your time in Manila.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>[00:40:01] <strong>Milana Cap:</strong> Yeah, thank you for having me.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>[00:40:03] <strong>Nathan Wrigley:</strong> You&#8217;re very welcome.</p>\n</div>\n\n\n\n<p>On the podcast today we have Milana Cap.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>Milana is a seasoned WordPress Engineer from Serbia, working with XWP and freelancing through Toptal. 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