State of the Indieweb in WordPress

Every year, at the Indieweb Summit, we have the State of the Indieweb(it’s the year of the Reader, by the way). The head of the WordPress project gives his State of the Word. I even watched the Governor of my State give his State of the state.
As I go through my 2018 Year in Review, I wanted to cover the State of WordPress as it relates to the Indieweb, cover where we are and were I hope we are going.
While the Block Based Editor, aka Gutenberg, had no direct effect on WordPress and its Indieweb usage, it has had a serious effect on developing for WordPress and will continue to do so in the future.
We’ve had several community members who have opted to move off of WordPress. But we continue to, because of the market presence of the product, attract new people. So, concerns aside about the future of the WordPress project, it makes sense for the community to continue to evolve.

IndieAuth Endpoint for WordPress

Micropub Endpoint Rewritten to use WordPress REST API

Weather for Simple Location

New Weather, Location, and Map Providers for Simple Location

Refbacks

Parse This, a post-processing and parsing library for WordPress split out and updated, now set to be used in a Microsub server

Yarns Microsub in beta

Support for syndication built into Syndication Links

Redesign of the UIs for Simple Location and Post Kinds

New code to allow the registration of custom post kinds

Attempt to store microformats in mf2 json and convert to jf2

New Widgets

Basic support for receiving Vouches added to Webmentions…though disabled by default

Template improvements to Semantic Linkbacks to improve the settings page and new property support

Additional Microformats 2/Indieweb Plugin friendly themes.

This is only a short list of things that came to mind when I read through the various changelogs.
All of these items reflect the coming together and polishing of a complete Indieweb experience. As we move into the end of the first month of 2019, here is what I personally am hoping to see.

The release of Yarns Microsub

At least one of the two theme conversions I worked on being released in the WordPress Theme Directory, giving us another option for individuals who better integration

Redesign, improvement, and enhancement of the Facepiles in Semantic Linkbacks.

Look at the future of Webmention and Semantic Linkbacks. Every year, there is talk of why they aren’t merged. This is partly to do with the storage design. It may be time to standardize the storage.

Improve MF2 Feed to generate a compliant feed for times when the theme cannot be modified to encourage more interaction

Improve documentation

While I’m not hoping for it, in the longterm, whether or not we should pivot to accept a block editor world for the Indieweb plugins is a matter for debate.
The alternative is to leave the block editor for article posting and add a UI into Post Kinds to allow for simple note and like posting in the admin. Or use Micropub exclusively.
But, we will all continue to plug along. What are you looking to get out of having a WordPress site and adopting the principles of the Indieweb community this year?