the common and yolder WordPress is now a dominant player in the website CMS/builder market. It went from 25% to 33% to now 43% in 2022. As it approaches 50%+, will it meet more opposition from newer players?

WordPress is about 20 years old now. We have used it for about 10 years. But it is showing its age, with older clunkier technologies like PHP and MySQL. Compare it to some more modern stacks using Javascript or strong new builders like Webflow, who are much faster and object oriented.

WordPress has grown by taking market share away from similar older PHP stacks like Drupal and Joomla. Those platforms that have lost significant market share to WordPress because it’s easier to use, a friendlier community, and has strength in numbers. And most important, it’s led by Matt Mullenweg, an inspiring, dynamic leader and public speaker who really cares about everything WordPress and the web.

The real threats to WordPress are newer no-code platforms like Squarespace and Wix, which are super easy to use and fix a lot of WordPress problems like self hosting, security holes, manual updates and slow loading times. It’s probably not the best choice anymore, but it has so much momentum that it will take years to displace it as number one.

So now what? Where does WordPress go from here? How do they keep innovating? Growing? Matt Mullenweg has a great task ahead for the next decade; I think he will rise to the occasion.