What Will The Future of WordPress Look Like

The internet has over 1.3 billion websites, and 43% of all sites are powered by WordPress. That's definitely an impressive number. But have you wondered what it is about WordPress that has made it so popular?

Back in 2003, WordPress started as a simple blogging platform. But over time, it continued to surprise its users with its amazing developments.

Today it has evolved into a full-fledged website builder and robust content management system (CMS). WordPress now holds about 65% of the CMS market share with no signs of slowing down.

In such a scenario, its users are only curious to know what changes to expect in WordPress in the times to come. If you're one of them, you'll find this article interesting. In this article, we'll tell you what the future of WordPress will look like. So let's get started.

1. Gutenberg will Continue to Evolve

If you're a WordPress user, you know that Gutenberg has been around since 2017. But with the latest version of WordPress, i.e., 5.9, it finally got full-site editing capabilities. So now you can use Gutenberg in a live publishing environment too.

The main motive behind using Gutenberg is to simplify the process of building your websites. Earlier, if you were to design a website, you would have to go to your admin area and open the customizer in a completely new tab.

With the latest version of Gutenberg, things have changed. Now you can easily use the site editor to style your web pages. The drag-and-drop feature has given you greater control over where you want to place your elements.

You can now polish your website looks by using flexible layout controls, having full control over the borders and spacing, etc.

Anyone who has used a page builder before will easily understand how to use the block editor to style your web pages. But there's one major difference here. Gutenberg comes built-in with WordPress, but page builders don't. You have to install them separately to be able to use them.

So what does the future hold?

It's hard to predict the future. But Gutenberg has continued to evolve and is likely to do so in the future. So right now, although it's not in close competition with page builders (that offer much more features), there might be a day when Gutenberg might replace page builders altogether.

2. Fewer Niche Based Themes

The WordPress themes market is a huge one. Whether you want to build a portfolio, a travel blog, an educational website, or anything else, you'll find a theme that will fit your requirements.

But developers are now focusing on creating centralized themes that offer various layouts across niches and bundle them together as one. Astra, for example, offers more than 180 ready-to-use templates for its users and offers unlimited website usage options with its pro versions.

This means that marketers and entrepreneurs can make a one-time purchase and use it on unlimited websites of different niches. This makes their design efforts a lot more cost-effective. Also, they don't have to waste time looking for themes to match their new website.

So in the future, users might not want to go for themes that don't offer this option. As a result, theme developers might shift their focus to creating more centralized themes rather than creating niche-specific themes.

3. More Secured Websites

Another major change that the future WordPress might experience is its security. Although WordPress is by far the most popular CMS, one downside of it is that it's prone to hackers and malicious attacks.

WordPress websites and eCommerce sites have often faced security threats. Sure, these threats can be overcome by following some basic security measures like keeping your website up-to-date, using secured hosting services, etc.

But having to take these steps to prevent an attack itself means having to put in more effort. In the future, this need to put in extra effort might come to an end. With the amazing changes that WordPress brings in with its updates, the chances of improving its security are definitely high.

4. Better Multi-lingual Support

The user base of WordPress is scattered across the globe. And not all of these users are native English speakers. Luckily WordPress is translation ready and is fully translated into more than 65 different languages.

So even non-native English speakers can now use the CMS to create websites for themselves and their businesses. However, there are thousands of languages spoken across the world.

And being one of the most popular website-building platforms, WordPress can support a lot many languages as compared to the ones it does now.

We are hoping to see a longer list of languages for WordPress to support in the future.

5. Improved User Interface

WordPress is widely used for designing websites by professional and newbie designers. And not everyone is equally tech-savvy. This makes it important for WordPress to improve its UI so that even a person without any tech experience finds it easy to use.

It's not that the existing interface is a complicated one. But with the way its user base is expanding, it should try to offer a UI that's optimized for all kinds of users.

Conclusion

WordPress has already been one of the most popular CMS and will continue to dominate the market in the future. We don't say that it's perfect. It definitely has its own set of flaws. But we have seen how it has evolved with each update. Going by its history, we are confident that the evolution will continue and more amazing features will be added to make web building and web designing a pleasure for all.