WordPress’ market share is shrinking
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WordPress’ market share is shrinking
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Re: WordPress’ market share is shrinking
#2An alternative explanation: people who use Wordpress are those with personal blogs and they are being visited less, thus less present in top Alexa Rank sites.
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#3tl;dr: wordpress went from 41.2% to 42.9% in a year - undeniably shrinking
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#4Chances I will ever use Squarespace or Wix: 0%.
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#5WordPress will continue losing market share for the simplest reason: people fed up with the coercion of Full-Site Editing (FSE) by Automattic.
Community's reaction via comments' section [1] for Gutenberg plugin was a clear indication that people will eventually go away, had they not revoke their decision.
They haven't which led to the fork [2] of WordPress thus dividing the community, at least for a while.
Had they listened to their community to acquire Elementor and make it part of WP core, things would have been a lot better today than they currently are I'm afraid.
They have wasted countless resources and valuable time that could be poured in improving Elementor and WordPress in general.
I have tried to find tutorials, articles, and books about using FSE and couldn't find anything updated.
It's just sad to be honest with you...
[1] https://wordpress.org/plugins/gutenberg/
[2] https://www.classicpress.net/Re: WordPress’ market share is shrinking
#6Wix and Squarespace are imo infinitely harder to make look good/maintain than Wordpress (at least without Gutenburg). Just some basic tasks are needlessly difficult or impossible. I still think Wordpress is the go-to easy to build/maintain CMS.
IMO, I think Automattic introduced Gutenberg way too soon to Core and introduced it as very half baked. Still to this day it's very half baked to an incredible degree, some pages will just break outright and resort to JSON errors, not to mention the built in blocks are awful and 3rd party blocks often break. That probably turned off a lot of people. It's still easier to just buy a theme that has a built in page builder and you'll get similar Lighthouse scores to Gutenburg (this being for average users, not custom themers, etc).
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#7Die a hero or live long enough to become a vilain
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#8Do you have the same impression: Each and every plugin/extension has a commercial pro version that keeps on nagging to buy its extended warrenty ... sorry, no, to subscribe to updates for just 29.99 each, right? So 29.99 for instagram connections, 39.99 for backups pro (i'm making names and prices up, but you know the drill.) and for just 20 dollars more a security/virus check for ... what?!?!
are you f**king kidding me? I've started to use pelican. It creates a flat file-based website with all I need. (See: https://blog.getpelican.com/)
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#9The only people I know who hate Wordpress are the developers who have had the misfortune of having to manage an instance of Wordpress. All the marketing and content people I have worked with love it.
Re: WordPress’ market share is shrinking
#10WordPress will continue losing market share for the simplest reason: people fed up with the coercion of Full-Site Editing (FSE) by Automattic. Community's reaction via comments' section [1] for Gutenberg plugin was a clear indication that people will eventually go away, had they not revoke their decision. They haven't which led to the fork [2] of WordPress thus dividing the community, at least for a while. Had they l…
I used to tell people WP is a solid base to build your website if you know what you're doing, but with Gutenberg and not knowing how much longer the Classic Editor plugin will be supported I keep my WP praise to myself.