Is WordPress Still Relevant in 2024?

Should WordPress be your first choice to build new websites, even with all the other options out there?
Read our detailed analysis on the Barn2 blog - barn2.com/blog/wordpress-mark...
Last year I made a video titled “Is WordPress Dying?” where I talked about the entire story of WordPress and how it became the world’s most popular CMS. But for various reasons discussed in the video, it had suddenly dipped in popularity over recent years.
Given that Barn2 is a WordPress plugin company, we have a great deal of investment in the popularity of WordPress as a whole. So we took another look at the numbers to see what’s really going on in the industry.
But what I want to focus on is what all this means for you guys, the web developers, designers, agencies, and entrepreneurs that are watching this video. Should you continue to stick with WordPress? And is it even worth learning how to use it as a newcomer?
I’ll be honest, there are still some pretty big challenges that WordPress needs to overcome to regain its status as the #1 choice for web designers, which I’ll discuss today, and hopefully we can answer the main question of this video; “is WordPress still relevant today?”.
Resources and references:
Is WordPress Dying video - • Is WordPress Dying? Th...
Jamie Marsland's channel - / @jamiewp
storeleads.app/reports
storeleads.app/reports/shopify
trends.builtwith.com/shop/Sho...
colorlib.com/wp/wordpress-sta...
w3techs.com/technologies/over...
kinsta.com/shopify-market-share/
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Video Chapters:
0:00 Should you use WordPress?
1:16 A bit of context
2:10 Stats and numbers
3:52 WordPress.com vs. WordPress.org
5:00 Gutenberg Problems
6:13 WooCommerce vs. Shopify
7:40 The old interface
8:05 The good news!

[@visualmodo]

Really good video!!!

[@Barn2Plugins]

Thank you @visualmodo 😊

[@bello_the_blogger5593]

The problem with WordPress having a new Ui is that, many or all of the tutorials on navigating and doing stuff with the existing UI will go to waste..
RUclips channels will suffer and blogs will have a lot of updating to do, and SEO war to fight.

[@Barn2Plugins]

Hi, Bello. Thanks for your thoughts about updating the WordPress UI to have a more modern feel to attract new users! You're right, and I know what you mean. Updating or changing to a new UI in WordPress would indeed render documentation, tutorials, etc. about the current UI as defunct and outdated. Being in the software industry, we both know that keeping documentation and tutorials updated is a given, as it should of course keep up with the continuous changes applied via updates (whether minor or major). Changes to the UI (albeit major) are no different. E.g. Think of the UI changes/difference between the versions of operating systems (i.e. Windows 10 and 11). Keeping documentation and tutorials abreast with such changes is what will help companies stand out. Cheers, -Edge

[@vahanplus]

@barn2 - can someone finally respond to our support requests?

[@Barn2Plugins]

Hi Vahan, thank you for the comment. I see that my collegue Faycal is already assisting you with the issue. I apologize for the delay. The support request came in at the end of the work week and we are lightly staffed during the weekends. In any case, I'm sure you're in good hands with Faycal. Let us know if you need anything else. - Carl

[@jamiewp]

Great video Sam

[@ion_iacob]

You're right. WordPress and woocommerce have a future, only if the entrepreneurial community does not become lazy in learning and implementing.