Post Status Comments (No. 9) — The State of WordPress Market Share

“In order for WordPress to win, the rest of the competition doesn’t have to lose.” — David Bisset

How should the WordPress community react to the first recorded dip in market share? Is a small decline something to be concerned about or more of an opportunity to examine what defines WordPress as a successful platform? Are the Gutenberg project, Full Site Editing, other core features, or competitor innovations important factors? Should some organizations in the WordPress space be playing a bigger role as contributors?

Special guests Joost de Valk, Alex Denning, and Jessica Frick discuss these subjects with host David Bisset — and near the end Ben Gabler joins in.

Post Status Comments 💬 is a stage for WordPress professionals to exchange ideas and talk about recent topics and trends.

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🔗 Mentioned in the show:

• WordPress’ market share is shrinking
• What WordPress has to do with the Discontinued iPod
• A 0.4% drop in WordPress CMS market share doesn’t really matter (Article)
• Alex Denning WordPress’ Market Share Twitter Thread
• Continuation of Alex Denning WordPress’ Market Share Twitter Thread
• Rich Tabor reply on Full Site Editing on Twitter
• Nick Diego reply on Full Site Editing on Twitter Part 1
• Nick Diego reply on Full Site Editing on Twitter Part 2
• 105,495,450 searches for WordPress terms in the last 12 months, up 7.5% year-on-year

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• Ben Gabler (Twitter)
• David Bisset (Twitter)
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