WordPress in 2016

ƒA year ago, I published WordPress in 2015. In retrospect, I’m very happy how the article turned out. The predictions were for the most part accurate, but materialised at varying speeds. You can check it out here. Looking back, 2015 was another strong year for WordPress and its ecosystem. We saw user adoption breach the 25% barrier (in front of Drupal which has a tenth of that). WordPress itself had big wins such as responsive images and the REST API. The ecosystem around it also thrived; we witnessed the acquisition of WooCommerce by Automattic, a deal rumoured at $30M. There are also over 40,000 other plugins on WordPress.org resulting in more than a billion downloads, one could possibly argue that we’ve even reached peak plugin. It goes without saying that there is a lot of momentum in WordPress today. So what’s next, where do we focus our energy in 2016? Comments, feedback and other predictions are all welcome at the bottom of the post. JavaScript, not so fast “Learn JavaScript, deeply.” was the phrase that’s been making rounds after Matt’s “State of the Word” talk at WordCamp US. I think it’s great advice, but JavaScript is so vast that you need to find the right entry point. At #wordpress #smallbusiness #entrepreneur

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