The WordPress ecosystem went through a roller coaster in Q4 – with some legal repercussions following a judge’s order on Tuesday.
The community has been buzzing: but mostly behind closed doors.
I posted a long roadmap suggestion for WordPress shortly following the early “wpdrama” on Oct 12, gathering over a hundred reposts/likes, bookmarked 46 times, and leading to more DMs.
And over 40 industry peers reached out to talk “what’s happening”, and that’s just my DMs.
So similar recaps or readouts bubble up every now and then – in blogs, on social, as articles or newsletter reads, and during podcasts.
Joost de Valk is the original Yoast founder and still actively involved with WordPress – his blog post today covered ONCE AGAIN the state of the web, the market share of closed source solutions, and the leadership issues leading to the disconnect between customer needs and product options.
While DevriX has been building primarily WordPress software for the past 14 years (and I’ve co-founded other WordPress businesses and have been contributing to core since 3.7), I’m not oblivious nor uninformed on what the market offers.
For brochure and starter websites, Framer, Wix, Squarespace, Webflow offer pretty strong selling benefits.
For traditional e-commerce, Shopify is often great.
WordPress has its place in:
> publishing
> non-profit
> education
> intranets
> some LMS cases
> wholesale e-commerce
> B2B SaaS that goes beyond CMS
> multisite networks
It’s not always competitive due to its:
– cluttered UX
– maintenance overhead
– security fears
– fragmented hosts
– pretty poor editing experience
– lack of a modern template selection
We tend to manage more
Kudos to the loud voices speaking up their mind in public. Morten Rand-Hendriksen is also one who’s been the voice of people for nearly a decade here.
Posting the link to the post in the comment.
What else is on your WordPress wishlist for 2025?
And if you’re not using WordPress, why?
