[HN Gopher] WordPress' market share is shrinking
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WordPress' market share is shrinking
Author : adamcarson
Score : 37 points
Date : 2022-05-11 21:05 UTC (1 hours ago)
(HTM) web link (joost.blog)
(TXT) w3m dump (joost.blog)
| seydor wrote:
| tl;dr: wordpress went from 41.2% to 42.9% in a year - undeniably
| shrinking
| kappuchino wrote:
| Do 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/)
| justinator wrote:
| Chances I will ever use Squarespace or Wix: 0%.
| andybak wrote:
| Well I guess chances I will ever use Squarespace, Wix or
| Wordpress: ~0%.
|
| But I'm not sure what that adds to the conversation without
| some background context on our requirements, use-cases or
| constraints?
| haswell wrote:
| The HN community is a bubble. I doubt very many people who
| participate here would either.
|
| But many creative types I know have used at least one if not
| both. We are not the intended market.
| siquick wrote:
| The 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.
| jokabrink wrote:
| From the blog post:
|
| > If WordPress is shrinking, something else must be growing, this
| is, after all, a zero sum game. The very clear winners at the
| moment are Wix and Squarespace.
|
| I disagree with the authors findings: When taking a look at the
| quaterly data
| https://w3techs.com/technologies/history_overview/content_ma...,
| one can clearly see that WP and Shopify at least plateaued which
| is alright.
|
| But the authors conclusion, that WP's loss gives points to Wix
| and SqSpace for me does not hold: The numbers for "None" still
| decreases and much more strongly than the two mentioned above.
|
| He conveniently forgets the "None" partition, making is entire
| argument/criticism (for me) somewhat thin. He could in the same
| way argue, that Wix and Squarespace are more successful in
| getting non-CMS websites to switch.
| stefanos82 wrote:
| WordPress 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/
| pupppet wrote:
| 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.
| partiallypro wrote:
| Wix 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.
| dvngnt_ wrote:
| linktree is a very lightweight alternative that i see a lot of
| people use
| andybak wrote:
| https://linktr.ee ?
|
| That seems an entirely different thing, unless there's
| something I'm missing.
| pluc wrote:
| Die a hero or live long enough to become a vilain
| dpcan wrote:
| We can make assumptions all day but for me, the worst thing about
| WordPress is EASILY Plugin Hell.
|
| I can update all plugins this morning and they all want updates
| by the end of the day.
|
| And then when they break it's a disaster.
|
| WordPress itself needs to take a chill pill too.
|
| Leave a version out for a year or more, and only small security
| patches. In the last year, I think we've seen block widgets,
| JQuery migrate nightmares, that new blocks theme thing, and more.
| I just want them to back off already.
|
| It's a nightmare keeping hundreds of clients up to date.
| altdataseller wrote:
| An 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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