![]() ![]() Consider them part of a larger discourse, and an invitation for you to join that discourse. These are my personal reflections on where we are and where I think we need to go next. In this article I speak not as a representative of the WordPress Governance Project. Today, some 4 months later, I want to shed some light on why I think WordPress Governance is so important, and why to me it is less about uprooting existing leadership models and starting a revolution than taking stock of the position WordPress and its community finds itself in and accepting its new role as a driving force of the web. These questions, and others in the same vein, were the starting point of what would become the WordCamp US 2018 talk Moving the Web Forward with WordPress, and the WordPress Governance Project. It’s used on more than 7% of the million sites that receive the most traffic.What role does WordPress play in the larger discussions about the web platform and the internet? What responsibilities does WordPress have to speak for the tens of millions of content creators, business owners, designers, developers, organizations, institutions, and governments who rely on this free open source software to share their thoughts, ideas, information, products, and services with the world? And how does WordPress responsibly take part in the external decision making processes which impact not only the application itself but every person who in any way interacts with WordPress? The most popular site builder in the WordPress ecosystem is growing exponentially. Now its main competitors are self-hosted SaaS solutions like Shopify, Wix and Squarespace, which have taken over from the historical Joomla and Drupal.įinally, a possible threat – to be taken with caution for the moment – could also come from within in the person of Elementor. However, it is safe to say that it will not be dislodged from its position as the number one CMS for many years to come, if it happens at all. Is this an isolated event or a trend that will continue? We’ll have to follow this over the next few months/years. Its market share has been growing steadily for several years, but we note that its growth has slowed slightly since the first half of 2022.Įven more surprising, perhaps: WordPress even lost 0.3% of market share between March and April 2022. WordPress dominates the market with hegemony, leaving only crumbs to its main competitors: Shopify (4.3% market share), Wix (2.3%), Squarespace (2%), Joomla (1.7%) and Drupal (1.2%). At the time of writing, WordPress is by far the most used tool in the world to design a website.Ĥ3.0% of the million sites that receive the most traffic are running on WordPress (. To answer this question, a snapshot at the moment is already interesting. Take a look at what WordPress 1.0 looked like back then: The ability to do manual excerpts and new templates. ![]() According to the official website, here is what it includes: This first version (0.7), which tests the ground, remains minimalist. Matt Mullenweg, the famous “saxmatt”, already active on b2 (everything explains itself).“WordPress was born out of a desire to have an elegant, well-architected personal publishing system built in PHP and MySQL and licensed under the GPL” says the page devoted to the history of WordPress on its official website.īehind this CMS (Content Management System) that will go down in history are two co-founders: And that’s how WordPress was born, officially launched on in its version 0.7. That is to say: create a new software from the source code of b2. For personal reasons, Valdrighi disappeared from the radar for a few months at the end of 2002, beginning of 2003.įrustrated by the turn of events, Mullenweg still has an idea: forker b2. ![]() Unfortunately, after a few months, the b2/cafelog project fell apart.
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