The final of our community series, slightly later than planned asks twenty one of the WordPress community what they think the future of WordPress should be. Again, in no particular order, here are the responses.
The good news is that all of these updates theoretically will be improving WordPress with more features, stronger security, and better code. I think eventually WordPress will hit critical mass and be bought out by some corpo-giant like Yahoo or Google. I will leave it up to you to contemplate the future if something like that should happen.
In the meantime, WordPress will continue to grow and evolve into an increasingly awesome piece of blogging/CMS software. Something we can all look forward to! 🙂
–Jeff Starr
I think blogging will decline in the future and will be replaced by micro-blogging. Blogging will be just another extension of micro blogging like a read more link.
–Lester Chan
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In the past, web communication was based on NNTP, then it merged to mailing lists, and them to forums. When we thought personal websites would emerge, yorkut came out and took communication to chose, private area (you can’t Google search what’s talked there). Now we see microblogging on twitter. In the past, when blog structure was created, many ppl saw it as a “digital personal diary”, where ppl would talk only about personal stuff that is boring for everybody else. When that stigma was gone, twitter came and again ppl misused it talking about futilities, but soon they realized its power. Well we never know what will emerge in the future, there always can emerge a new and inovative (not always good) that will go to the public. Taking that apart, I belive big companies will try to enforce community portals to keep public on their hands, always enforcing easy of use so that the masses can use and it becomes popular. Among public CMSs, I believe WordPress will take the front since it is easier (no non-geek will try to build a site over Drupal) and be even more notorious. If bbPress and buddyPress advance and become easier to… Read more »
I love WordPress so much, I want nothing more but to see it prosper in the future!
It is the best CMS out there, so I am sure it will.
WordPress is by far the best blogging software out there. It should evolve into a CMS; it has so many great functions etc. out there for developers and makes plugins a breeze to make. It pretty much is a CMS with tools like Pods. Open source is the future. Look at Netscape… now it’s Firefox. DOWN WITH BLOGGER AND WEEBLY!!! :p
Power to the people is great, but ideas spread much faster and are often stickier if they are for profit.
After all the idea of “Venture Capital” is the most non organic idea ever.
The more I use WordPress, the more I get to know the power of it. If only there would be some better way to adhere users and their ‘own’ posts & pages, it would be awesome.
Don’t let the big guys get hold of this brilliant piece of software
Its Like when you asking What is The Future Of the Internet? I love wordpress and i don’t want it to be sold to those big cooperate Org
I think WordPress has already reached the point of being a great CMS for business websites and have just switch over to doing ALL my client sites in WordPress. I hope this trust and “all eggs” approach proves to be the right decision in the long run – it’s certainly proving popular with clients and is speeding up development times.
WordPress is great on because of it’s community. That is it.
WordPress will at some point fail because of its a license which has no legal balls.
Lets be honest, ultimately a business plan of getting “bought out by some corpo-giant like Yahoo or Google” is a totally unorganic process which hinges on “someday.” Personally someday doesn’t cut it for me.
I really think a paid product will replace WordPress in the next 3-5 years.
I love wordpress! I think WP will take over the blogging community and will be the top CMS ever