In your opinion, what is the future of WordPress?

The future of wordpress is still bright, considering there are a large amount of themes which allow users with little to no knowledge of website development and design to create responsive websites. However, with the addition of responsive elements to Adobe Muse for example and presumably more additions, then wordpress will have face stern competition from a software program that creates HTML and responsive elements from a visual builder like Muse.

As for other platforms like Wix, there are a lot of issues with it, for one it does not offer responsive elements that most theme templates have in wordpress (most of which are FREE) and the ability to remove the "Wordpress" branding in editor that comes when you have your own domain and hosting package. The price of Wix for a single hosting package without unlimited possibilities is more expensive per year than basic hosting packages that offer installations of popular content management systems. As such, for someone who is interested in removing the Wix branding and take their website online, wix is simply not the best option at all. For someone who is not interested in customizing and creating a different experience and just have their content online for viewing (regardless of the wix brand) then it is fine.

Wordpress in general is a POWERFUL platform and for those who know the essentials of web development, it gives you the option for customizing every single theme availalbe with a simple FTP download into your computer and a trip to dreamweaver.

I do not agree Medhat.  If you have a powerful platform you cant use a wizard to create sophisticated web sites.  Even all the dumbed down templates found on wix, ss and other so called 5 minute website builders consistently churn out absolute crud for people who think web development is easy.  It takes alot longer than 6months to be proficient in all areas of webdesign.  Even if you take away the code and are only left with the graphics, the text and the seo, that is still a big task that requires ux planning, graphics and document/seo skills.  Its possible to be good at creating one style of site in 6 months - but to be proficient in all styles of web sites takes many years and takes lots of resource - even beyond the framework.   WordPress is a flexible framework and really beats many other CMS with features and functionality way beyond any of the reduced functionality hosted platforms available today.  And with wordpress plugins like Visual Composer, word press is just as easy - once setup - as any wix  site and its more powerful and improving every month.  I really hope word press keeps growing.  It really is turning into an application framework that can also be configured by graphic artists to look amazing.  It can be configured to run applications that only 4 years ago would have cost you many tens of thousands of dollars to build.

There’s one thing that we can all agree on: the future of WordPress is bright and also MUCH FASTER than the previous.

WordPress core will support an API as soon as the WP-API is fully merged, sometime next year. Posts and pages are not hard to turn into an app, it’s all the stuff added on top of core in themes and plugins.

Fun fact: Node/PHP is not an issue here, you can still run single page web apps without Node.

Automattic just announced Calypso, which is a radical new interface for WordPress.com.

It replaces the old WordPress.com admin experience with a faster, more modern approach. It uses a Javascript framework called React, which was developed by Facebook. The main advantage of React is that it’s supposed to allow development of web and mobile apps using a similar codebase.

WordPress.com now uses an API to communicate with a Node server, instead of processing with PHP. The advantage of this is that it’s much faster and more interactive, and there are no page refreshes. It’s the same approach that makes many mobile and web apps tick, and it has the performance many users have come to expect these days.

Technology needs to evolve or else it will be replaced by something newer and better, and this evolution of WordPress will help it flourish in the coming years. It also means there will be a lot of change.

WordPress and the micro-economies around it will also need to evolve, or they will be replaced. The most successful WordPress products in5 years will not look like the ones today.

WordPress is% of the web today, will it be% of apps in5 years? We’ll see.

the future to all web platforms is to be for a beginner to use, someone who has experience for6 months in the same field to be able to make a semi professional web platform