Great Conversation on WordPress Market Share
Lindsey Miller
WordPress's CMS market share may have dropped a little — for the first time. We had a great conversation about that this morning.
Post Status Notes #498
David Bisset
Are we up or down? What should happen when a license expires? Is the block protocol worth it? Driesnote 2022. WP Engine expands. Becoming a better writer. Best backup solutions. Define your role. Reaktiv wins a spot in Inc's Best Workplaces. Open Source JobHub. Our passwordless future.
Does Market Share Matter?
David Bisset
Is the WordPress market share beginning to shrink? How do we assess market share? What metrics matter? It's time we asked these questions.
Post Status Comments (No. 9) — The State of WordPress Market Share
David Bisset
Joost de Valk, Alex Denning, Jessica Frick, and Ben Gabler join David Bisset for a community conversation about WordPress's (shrinking?) market share.
Post Status Notes #497
David Bisset
WordPress is 19! • WP 6.0 news and Beta 4 release. • JetPack 10.9 • BuddyPress Rewrites 1.1.0 • Simple Local Avatars 2.3.0 • InMotion funds WCUS scholarships • RSS and Blogging FTW • Wishlist Member acquired • New leadership team at Yoast • and the rest of your weekly WP news roundup!
An Inside Job: The Danger of Weaponized Open Source Projects
David Bisset
Will open source contributors who weaponize code destroy trust in open source — and destroy open source as collateral damage?
WordPress as a Commons
Lesley Sim
Fences can protect or inhibit care of a commons. "Do not remove a fence until you know why it was put up in the first place," is a classic piece of wisdom. What are the questions we need to ask about our fences and WordPress as a commons?
Post Status Comments (No. 6) — The State of the WordPress News European Edition
David Bisset
Get new perspectives on last years' biggest news stories — which ones mattered most, to whom, and why? This is the European edition of the first Annual Post Status News Draft.
Post Status Excerpt (No. 41) — WordPress Community Versions: Past, Present, Future
David Bisset
How has the WordPress community changed since its early days? How does money and market share change it? What lies ahead?
Post Status Excerpt (No. 40) — Post Status from 2021 to 2022
David Bisset
Post Status went through a lot of change in 2021. What's coming in 2022?
Post Status Comments (No. 5) — The First Annual WordPress News Draft
Olivia Bisset
Aurooba Ahmed, Jason Cosper, Daniel Schutzsmith, Robert Jacobi, and Lesley Sim join David Bisset for three rounds of draft picks for the top WordPress stories of 2021.
Post Status Comments (No. 4) — State of the Word 2021 Analysis
David Bisset
Bet Hannon, Eric Karkovack, Maciek Palmowski, and Rae Morey join David to share their reactions to the State of the Word 2021.
Post Status Team Responses to the State of the Word 2021
Dan Knauss
Openverse. Diversity. Training. Future generations. A whole that is greater than the sum of its parts. These are our quick takes on SOTW '21.
WordPress Market Grow Continues to Surge…
Dan Knauss
WordPress Market Grow Continues to Surge Joost de Valk has updated his CMS market share analysis for June 2021 based on numbers provided by W3Techs. Joost notes that “a lot has changed again this year, in large part attributable to…
WordPress’s market share has hit an…
Dan Knauss
WordPress's market share has hit an even 41% according to W3Techs. That is a 1% gain over the past 45 days. Outside of some respectable growth from Shopify, other CMS platforms have seen relatively flat growth since the start of…
Squarespace, which has over 1,200 employees,…
Dan Knauss
Squarespace, which has over 1,200 employees, recently raised $300 million at a $10 billion valuation. While the market share of WordPress is many times larger, commercial closed-source platforms are gaining investment and a little bit of growth.
