I haven’t always been a WordPress developer, but anytime I get excited about a new framework, CMS, or platform I always end up coming back to WordPress both out of general principle and because it offers a more well-rounded package. Many others offer solutions to fix a specific problem, but WordPress has always had the mission to build a platform for most people with accessibility, security, and ease of use and setup in mind. I can’t say that’s true for all others. The future of WordPress is in flux right now and the platform that was introduced to us in 2003 is barely recognizable by comparison. It’s taken fifteen years to get us to Version 5.0. Arguably, progress has been slow.
It could also be argued that perhaps the internet landscape hasn’t changed as much as it sometimes appears to have changed in that time. I thought it’d be good to examine the future of WordPress, how it got started, how it evolved, and to see where we’re going and why.
2003
The year was 2003, 5-hour ENERGY had just hit the market and WordPress was born from the ashes of a dying/dead B2 Cafelog, a super-basic-early-aughts blogging platform. It was nothing fancy, although
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