November 10, 2025 — People talk about the “open social web” but there isn’t a whole lot of web to what they’re doing. WordPress has deep power and is very widely deployed, and of course is a central part of the open web. I felt it just needed a writer-friendly user interface. And that’s what I set out to do with WordLand. I’ll talk about how we got here, and what’s next, and the greater role WordPress can play in the evolving social web.