The Future of WordPress – a Developer’s Prediction
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Published: 2020-08-21 10:23:32

Sitting at the end of 2020  when we look back at the year 2015, we see the term ‘WordPress’ has several technical developments, massive acquisitions, regrettable spats and internal rants that entertained a lot of audience across the world. That was the year when we felt that <a href="https://addwebsolution.com/wordpress-managed-hosting">WordPress Development Services</a>is growing and moving from a mere Content Management System (CMS) to something bigger and better! 

<h2>Look Back Time…</h2>
It was already a decade of WordPress being one of the famous but puttering blog platforms, and expecting WP to act as a business platform for developing websites and e-commerce could have been a faintish experience for the owners as well. If we jump back to 2005, Matt Mullengweg was just focusing on establishing Automatic and WordPress.com. It was not sure how far will it go. But increasing demand for blog websites, fuelling the popularity of the plugins and themes, and the flexibility of platform enabling users to design and develop pages as per their requirements suddenly skyrocketed the popularity of WordPress. The pace that was set in those days is what WordPress is still enjoying today in 2019. 

If we see the current trends WordPress is holding the strong global market share of 34% in 2019 which is a rise of 4% compared to 2018. If we talk about the Content Management Systems then WordPress currently holds a dominating position with 60% market share. WordPress has 50,000 plugins and more than 3500 GPL licensed themes from millions of community members. Apart from still being one of the most popular blogging website platforms in 2019, WordPress is also considered best for website development for small to large businesses globally including e-commerce segment. 

The best thing about WordPress is that it is now supporting several commercial packages as well. These facts play a vital role because it shows the unfading popularity of WordPress in the market in the year 2019. 

<b>Now the question is, will WordPress will always be alive?<//b>

We know after spending more than a decade with the favourite platform, developing so many solutions, enhancing your business across markets, building your career around the platform, etc., it can be a difficult question to even think, but the fact remains fact! As per the historical data, every website or platform which had gained popularity over the years had to face the fall in a decade or so.

 Be it Myspace, AOL, or Geocities. However, Facebook has managed to look youthful and charm users adapting to the latest trends and techniques, and survive the wave of wearing off from the market. So in order to stay on the leading position for the coming decade and bring back the growing era of WordPress to the next horizon the real question is – What is WordPress planning in 2020 and beyond?

<h2>WordPress in 2019 and beyond…</h2>

If we see and think as per the vision of Mullenweg and how he considers the future of WordPress, it is time to adapt to the changes for something better. Shortly after releasing the breakthrough version in 2018 at Nashville, Mullenweg explained the complete planning for 2019 and beyond, for WordPress. He has diversified the growth and change of WordPress into various phases that will give birth to a completely new era and power-packed features over the period. Check out the video interview of Mullenweg at State of Word in Nashville:

<h2>Phase I – Launch of Gutenberg WordPress Editor</h2>

<h2>Phase II – Reviving WordPress Widgets for Gutenberg Blocks and Offering Practical Customizations</h2>

<h2>Phase III – Multi-user Editing and Co-Editing in WordPress</h2>
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