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It’s worth spending a few moments this weekend reviewing Matt Mullenweg’s State of the Word from WordCamp San Francisco. He talks about some stats, some changes, and some new changes to WordPress coming down the pipe.
One of the neatest things that I took away was later in his talk about making WordPress “more human” and how many of the changes are so slight that you may have never even noticed them – but they are there and they have made the WordPress experience even better.
I’ve also been impressed with the idea of how rapidly WordPress is being adopted globally as a go-to solution for business, individuals, and website owners and how 14.7% of all websites in the world are running WordPress (and 22% of new websites are using WordPress as well). Up and to the right baby!
In Matt’s own words:
The state of the word is strong.
This is the truth!
What are you most excited about in terms of the future of WordPress? What are you the most thankful for?
I know that for myself (and I’ve shared this more than a few times) I couldn’t be more thankful to Matt and the incredible team around WordPress since it’s helped me create a very fulfilling vocation and job!
And, I wouldn’t be having nearly as much fun with my career if it wasn’t for WordPress!
WordPress is exciting right now. I find it amazing how it has gone from a relatively simple blog publishing tool to a full content management system capable of handling the websites of entire universities and other large organizations.
As with any software, usability is key and the WordPress team seems to get this better than anyone. The themes alone are rather amazing when you look at the diversity in WordPress themes compared to other CMS software such as Joomla and Drupal.
chris,
you are dead right on this!
That’s amazing to think that nearly 1 in 5 websites are built on WordPress. Good to know I can create websites with one of the most popular CMS’s around!
Anyone can create a website with WordPresss. Its creating a good site that’s tricky.
Definitely agree!
this is the truth!
for sure! working with popular cms can be an advantage.
Thanks for sharing. I really like the concept “Function reforms form perpetually.” As a fairly new WP user (two years) I have confidence that it’s something I will be able to use and build on for a long time into the future. It’s also nice knowing that WP has that sort of philosophy and vision — eg. the NUX (New User Experience) and the drag and drop functionality for future iterations of WP.
i liked the NUX too!