What Are WordPress Statistics 2018 Likely To Be?

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What Are WordPress Statistics 2018 Likely To Be?
WordPress had been able to keep up its place in
the industry coping-up with various challenges
posed before. However, what are actually the
future insights and possibilities with this
platform? We are going to get some relevant
answers for this here. WordPress statistics 2018
and upcoming updates make-up some interesting
elements for developers in the run. Lets have a
look at these. WordPress had been the most
staggeringly dominant platform for content
management on the web. It holds on to more than
27 percent of the modern web. WP stands tall
with 60 of the CMS market share which is more
than the combined total of its considerable
competitors, Drupal and Joomla. There are pages
which attain 175 million views per month being
built with WP. WooCommerce which is WPs bring up
for e-commerce facilities are known to power 40
percent of the online stores. A Platform Too Big
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WordPress is a vast platform not just for its
reach but the high-level usability and benefits
it possesses for the users. One of the best
WordPress facts is that it would suit your needs
irrespective of what they are. WP powers
excellently built pages of several large
enterprises and numerous bloggers and high
traffic e-commerce websites. The use of this
software had always been appreciated as being
insightful and easy to use. Especially when you
are seeking in to add new content, this is an
absolute choice. There is no hard-core line that
requires users to know HTML basics. Just
elementary computer skills would do perfectly and
that is how content publishing now a piece of
cake with WP. However, apart from content
creators and managers, WordPress had been a
great tool for developers seeking creation for
the best websites with easily maintained domain
and hosting WordPress allows management of a
website directly and smoothly from the dashboard.
You may select a WordPress Theme whether paid or
free customize it accordingly and start
creating unique content! ALSO READ BIG DATA
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2018 Updates and new introductions remain to be
the best elements of any platform. And when its
about a revolutionary platform like WordPress,
these updates would surely be some amazing steps
towards change. Here are some evolutionary
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changes that are supposed to be brought up in
2018. Many of them have been already
accomplished. Have a look 1 WordPress Gutenberg
via wphu The entire team at WordPress had been
working with all their strengths and
capabilities for bringing up a revolutionary
content editor/creator. The release of WordPress
Gutenberg in April 2018 had been a replacement
for other classic editors in the market. Just
like the editor of WIX, Medium, and MainChimp,
Guternberg is known to be a block editing system.
This is now one of the integral components of
WordPress. This is regarded to be the
modernization of content writing and publishing.
You just need to drag and drop the elements on
to the canvas and you may create blocks at the
same place where you create content. This will
also ease the process of adding, images, videos
and other media files on the page. Generally,
Gutenberg would let you have the perfect
experiences similar to any other editors like
Medium but in a more advanced form. 2 Classic
WordPress Editor When Gutenberg is holding on to
the deck, there are chances that the old
WordPress Classic Editor would need to find its
way out from the queue. But there are still
users who want to work with the Classic Editor.
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• Well, that is not a problem as the Classic Editor
  being converted into a plugin, can be used
  anytime they want to. If you are not satisfied
  with the removal of WordPress Classic Editor,
  you may install and activate the separate plugin.
  You may therefore easily cope up with the
  changes brought in with the arrival of
  Gutenberg.
• 3 WP CLI-in Action
• This is one of the inevitable changes that are
  going to be brought in for many individuals and
  companies. WP CLI, the command-line interface for
  WP, is regarded to be extended in a way things
  are to be created with it. As per most of the
  developers, this is going to be one of the most
  lucrative tweaks in the WP working. This would
  consider the following
• Set new sites with WordPress
• Control WP with CORN
• Test code quickly
• Manage Plugins
• There are many more tasks that would be completed
  with the CLI or shell script.
• 4 WordPress REST API
• Several custom applications would be added to
  WordPress dashboard. You will, therefore, be
  available with the admin panel on REST API. The
  best part is that you may now be able to use WP
  as a Framework for managing content for a web
  application.
• The WordPress REST API is just a set of codes
  that would let you send and retrieve data from
  the applications you possess with WP. This change
  has possibly brought up many great possibilities
  for the future. Just like websites, you will now
  be able to create mobile apps on WordPress which
  means now iOS and Android apps would run on WP
  websites.
• 5 More Apps Powered By JavaScript
• For a considerable time, JavaScript had been
  available in bundle with WordPress. The use of
  various JS libraries supports various fundamental
  operations like editing and creating widgets and
  menus, use of customizer, updating and installing
  plugins all in a way much easier than before.
  Therefore, this year JavaScript is going to be

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more prevalent in WP applications. Vue 2.0 is
known to b the most promising in this relation.
It makes things work smoothly with easier
syntax. This is more like a template and hence
would help in creating web apps really faster.
Vue.js is being used by numerous modern plugins
and themes which help them power up to an
entirely new level. Supporting faster loading of
pages, this has allowed a new opportunity for
WordPress in case of improved user
experiences. Therefore, there are likely to be
numerous plugins and themes with Vue.js and
other JavaScript libraries. This is surely going
to bring up a new era for WordPress users. 6
SaaS in WordPress The automatic renewal by
WooCommerce, suggests a further ongoing trend for
even more SaaS plugins to enter the scene. Saas
or Software as a Service has been emerging as a
highly buzzing world in the industry these
days. This is known to be based on server
computing through PC access. This method had
been greatly considered among WordPress
developers and users. Considerably many plugins
are expected to emerge as SaaS solutions in
2018. 7 Changes in Theming There are tons of
WordPress themes from basic layout themes to the
ones which can be customized. The surge of
themes is however well known which drags and
drops the users and developers at different
prices. Moreover, they had been great being able
to support work without any considerable know-how
about coding. Thus the changes in page and block
builders would seemingly bring up a change in
the themes and theming industry. Builders like
Elemenator had been known to change the way of
creating WordPress pages. Anyone who is not even
aware of a single line of coding may be able to
do everything perfectly. When having Gutenberg
already in the scene, the further processes are
going to be absolutely easy. At the same time,
the Tide project sets the quality limits for the
codes that are going to be used with WP themes
and plugins. This is important for though the
non-developer users would not consider much about
code quality, this is going to be a major issue
for developers in the industry. ALSO READ
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8 WordPress Extended Use During the year 2018,
WordPress would emerge among users in a more open
form and there would be many companies starting
up with its use. People around the world are
going to realize the relevance of WP as an easy
and reasonable solution to all needs. ERP is the
biggest example of the kind available on
WordPress. There are possibilities that
WordPress is expected to take up about 1/3 rd of
the entire websites in the world. The
exponential growth of this platform in 2017
reflected a growth in possession from 27.3 to
29.3. If WP is actually successful in
maintaining this trend till 2018, the expected
share is likely to be 31.5. The current
consistent growth is, however, showcasing the
stability and reliability of the platform.
WordPress is getting more accessible with
time. 9 Controversies with WordPress version 5
With the launch of the WordPress version 5,
controversies are expected to heat up the arena
in 2018. Backward compatibility had always been
the major focus of WP. Its code is known to be
autonomously outdated and holds on to large
technical debts. WP, however, remains unchanged
with its decision despite the objection of
numerous developers over a considerable number of
times.
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Moreover, the platform has started over to push
forward with new technologies. There had been
several changes to its codebases with the
appreciable addition of the Gutenberg Project.
Even further in 2018 more of such changes are
expected. 10 WooCommerce serving Enterprises In
2018, WooCommerce is likely to be more ready for
enterprises. Better scaling will make the
adoption of a solution easy for the users. As per
this, more enterprises would be looking forward
to the use of WooCommerce for conducting and
boosting their WooCommrece activities. Scalable
solutions help in the management of better
eCommerce operations. Themes and plugins for
eCommerce had shown a prolific growth for a
considerable time. Being an open source platform
it offers users with increased security, data
control and affordability of launch/maintenance.
All signs show the excellent performance of this
WP element in the long run. 11 Importance of
Security and GDPR
via theconversation Cyber Security is always an
integral element in the IT industry. Since
WordPress is also a part of it, it is,
therefore, an important consideration. Users
often assume that their websites would never be
targeted as they are not significant enough.
However, that may not be the case. Vulnerable
ones are often the first target.
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Though there is a good enough security framework
with WordPress, hackers are also making
themselves ready for the game. 2018 will,
therefore, focus towards focus on better
security for the users. Also, the GDPR (General
Data Protection Regulation) would now regulate
how much data of users can the WordPress sites
can hold with them. WordPress legacy and security
measures are therefore moving towards a
change. 12 Mobile Friendly WordPress Themes
via cmsmart The rapid use of smartphones is
known to everyone. Therefore, mobile supported
plugins and themes for WP are therefore a must.
There are already many themes that are well
supported on mobiles however, there are still
many that are not. 2018 would surely bring some
more mobile-centric designs which can skillfully
rule over tablets and smartphones. With this
browsing would become far easier. Websites with
outdated themes are also supposed to be penalized
by Google. And there are no more excuses that
would keep away mobile friendly themes. 13 Video
Headers Videos had undeniably been one of the
most important parts of content these days.
Videos are known to possess all the capabilities
of creating a difference in marketing
advertising and also in terms of design. With
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• WordPress provides the best ways to handle
  videos. In 2018, video headers are likely to get
  more popular.
• There may be many more video streaming features
  and the live video streaming would not be a
  surprise arrival along with increasing reach of
  these videos on social media platforms. Video
  headers would, therefore, remain more
  highlighted.
• 14 Virtual Reality Plugins
• Virtual Reality is now already a trend. 2018 is
  expected to bring up numerous plugins with the
  best VR experiences. Had you known the fact that
  WordPress already supports VR content? The
  360-degree videos and images are a strengthened
  proof of this. There are also several plugins
  which let you have such experience with
  WordPress. Some of them are
• WP-VR View
• MomentoPress
• 360Panoramic Image Viewer
• These changes are going to prove revolutionary
  for WordPress from all perspectives.
• What Does Future Behold For WordPress?
• Brands and companies from all over the world
  continue to invest in WordPress. All the changes
  that WP is seeking in to bring are signs of
  improvement for the already perfect WordPress
  CMS. The platform is surely going to grow even
  greater in the year and the coming years.
• Content creation and consumption as per the
  probable upcoming updates and records of history
  remains to be perfect with WP from all angles.
  The updates, however, will let the users attain
  a wholesome new WordPress experience.
• Moreover, WordPress Statistics 2018 are likely to
  take the graph of growth higher towards success.
  You may surely seek to invest in web development
  with WordPress and look forward to a
  well-maintained website for years to come.