Report: WordPress in 2025
This year is set to be transformative for WordPress, yet many decision-makers risk overlooking the immense opportunities ahead. Our newΒ βWordPress in 2025βΒ report highlights why WordPress should be a cornerstone of your long-term strategy. Stay ahead of the curveβread the report now to see how WordPress can drive growth and innovation for your business in the years to come.

Some of the key points we explore:Β
- As proprietary βnext-genβ CMS hype fizzles out and enterprise budgets shift priorities, open-source CMSs like WordPress are primed to gain ground in the commoditized CMS space. WordPressβ maturity and extensibility provide a high starting point for innovation.
- WordPressβ Block Editor has seen tremendous investment, amassing over 34,000 commits β more than entire competing CMS projects. New capabilities like Full Site Editing (FSE) give enterprises unprecedented ability to enable no-code site building.
- Just as being the first user-friendly publishing tool propelled WordPressβ initial growth, AI presents a similar opportunity. WordPressβ contributor community can build not just AI features, but an exciting multi-agent, LLM-agnostic ecosystem representing an intelligent content operating system.
- Pure-play headless vendors are working backwards to add no-code editing, while WordPress has long supported robust headless capabilities alongside its mature editor. For complex sites, hybrid architectures leveraging both are the pragmatic path forward.
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About the reportβs author, Noel Tock β Having built his first website back in 1995, Noel has long been watching the evolution of the CMS space. As a co-owner at one of the leading enterprise WordPress agencies, Human Made, his belief in the power of open source is as great as ever. Human Made is a WordPress VIP Gold Partner specializing in DXP, headless, AI and more.