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So after switching my blogs over to WordPress, I attended WordCamp SF on Saturday to get a better sense of what’s going on with the platform from a developer’s perspective.  I have to say that I was impressed with the conference and with what’s going on under the hood.

The various folks working on WordPress shared plans on how they’ll continue building on their strengths (great UI, modularity, social media), and were quite honest about what they haven’t gotten right yet (confusing security API, too frequent releases, needing to separate core files from user folders.) And unlike many conferences focused on a single product or technology, many WordCamp sessions went beyond WordPress to cover topics of importance to developers and online publishers.  In particular, Steve Souder’s talk on improving front-end site performance was well done.

If you’ve got a WordCamp in your area, I highly recommend attending.  At $20 (at the SF conference at least), you can’t beat the dollar-to-signal ratio.