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In WordCamp Indonesia 2010, our Project Management ninja Setyagus Sucipto delivered a presentation. He spoke about WordPress as content management system (CMS).

WordPress itself is supposed to be the simplest blogging platform ever. Automattic team and the WordPress community have someway developed it that anyone can manage his own WordPress-powered site without a coding knowledge.

However, as Setyagus pointed out, with a proper CMS you can even further simplify your WordPress.

A proper CMS can help you:
- Simply and easily manage your site
- Hide complicated code and algorithm
- Automate templates
- Easily edit content
- Set scalable features
- Upgrade web standards
- Power up user role
- Manage workflow

“But why should we simplify the already simple WordPress backend?” The answer would be, “Why not?” After all, WordPress does has some limitations as in limited accessible user role and unhidden complicated code.

With the proper CMS you can bridge the plugin; it means you can modify plugins as you need them to be.

With the proper CMS you can, too, modify user role that a user has limited access to each category, or can only post to specific categories, or is prevented from any post unrelated to his privileges.

Ssst, this CMS is actually our own CMS. One of best things you’ll find here is the drag-dropping menu manager, a feature you’re about to see in the upcoming WordPress 3.0.

Here is Setyagus Sucipto’s presentation in slideshow:

Meanwhile, Beau Lebens delivered a presentation on the upcoming WordPress 3.0. As expected, we can and should expect some new features coming with the latest version although Lebens mention 3.0 as, “just another number.’ As in:

WordPress and WordPress MultiUser (MU) merge

With your very own WordPress you will be able to create optionally a single site (as you’ve done with WordPress) or multi-sites (as you’ve done with WordPress MU).

Custom post_types

WordPress users will be able to create multiple custom post as its type.

Menu manager

You will be able to customize menu simply with drag and drop.

New default theme

WordPress 3.0 is scheduled to be released on April, 13. While the public beta is on March, 1. You can check future releases here.

http://wordpress.org/about/roadmap/

Lebens also described what we are going to see in WordPress community throughout 2010. As in:

WordPress mobile app

WordPress is coming to iPhone and Blackberry.

http://iphone.wordpress.org

http://blackberry.wordpress.org

New committers

There will be 3 more WordPress warriors joining the WordPress core development team. Way to go, guys!

Trac workflow

Trac workflow is where/how you keep track on bug-killing in web development. WordPress is going to have its own Trac.

WPDevel.wordpress.com

http://wpdevel.wordpress.com

Here you can get the latest updates on WordPress development.

Core plugin

There are plenty of plugins out there, developed by the great WordPress community. But not all of them comes with great user support. You may find issue on your installed plugin, yet its developer is unreachable. Through the new core plugin, a one official stop for WordPress plugins, Automattic expects such issue can be eliminated.

Ideas forum

http://wordpress.org/extend/ideas

Here is you can share your brilliant ideas for WordPress. The community will rate them, and if that ideas of yours get nice rating, they may be included in future versions of WordPress.

New UI for WordPress.org

You can change but the change itself. WordPress is constantly changing its appearance, and YOU can become part of it. Contact janeforshort.

http://lists.automattic.com/mailman/listinfo/wp-ui

BuddyPress

Since WordPress 3.0 = WordPress + WordPress MU, Automattic is developing it further that you can install it on your WordPress. Awesome!

bbPress

http://bbpress.org

bbPress is a CMS bulletin board developed by Automattic. In future time it will be integrated with WordPress.

GlotPress

http://glotpress.org

The translation project by Automattic for WordPress has developed as vastly as WordPress itself. With this translator team coming from all over the world you can have your very own native language on your WordPress dashboard.

BackPress

http://
Here you can check the documentation on WordPress core function PHP.

CodePoet

Officially created by Automattic, here is where you can find WordPress consultants who specialize in building WordPress sites. In the list are WordPress web designers and developers from North America, Europe, Australia, New Zealand, Asia, South America and Africa. Care to join them?

Here is Beau Lebens’ presentation in slideshow: