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What does the future hold for WordPress Theme development?

by Steve Nellon Software Developer

For the last 10 years since the introduction of WordPress, this CMS platform has been gaining all the more popularity as well as importance. In fact, as per the experts who are regularly dealing with WordPress, its future looks extremely promising in spite of the challenges that lie ahead. When it comes to discussing the future development of WordPress, it is likely to mainly focus on the following two areas – Refatoring and Usability.

Wordpress Development

Refatoring

That WordPress comes up with a too many codes does not need to be mentioned. However, a considerable proportion of the codes are not optimal. This goes particularly true for the codes that are original. Hence, this needs to be improved and it is likely that the future generations of WordPress will come up with considerable improvement, and thus get rid of this limitation. Truly, the future generations of WP will come up with a lot of value added features – scope of rewriting admin interface in Jscript along with improved as well as enhanced legacy elements. Also, the backwards compatibility issue is going to enjoy a considerable extent of attention from the developers.

Usability

Developers have put more emphasis on usability than on features while developing the version 3.6 of WP. Traditionally, WordPress has got a lot of hidden power and surprisingly, much of that power was hitherto left unused. That has been somewhat rectified in the new version. Also, the fact that the next generation WPs are likely to come up with new features will make them more user-friendly from the end-users’ point of view. Also, while the language has already been simple, it is likely to get even simpler for the users with lesser technical prowess.

Let us look into the other aspects of the future of WP.

Blogging

Blogging is the core functionality of WordPress. This is mainly because WP is simple, fantastic and most importantly, extremely easy to use. Hence it allows everyone to share their thoughts as well as their view points, ideas and experiences with others. As the future generation WPs are likely to come up with more value added features and in a much simpler form, blogging will get easier and more acceptable to people, even those without any technical expertise whatsoever.

Mobile

It is going to get more mobile. Internet can be accessed now with virtually all types of mobile devices and this, undoubtedly, is going to change WordPress, by making it more mobile. It is likely to go on changing, and adapting to the way people will access and use it, especially through mobile devices and this is a significant change that WordPress is going to see in the future.

Identity

WordPress has always suffered from a kind of identity crisis ever since it was introduced some 10 years back. Though it gained a huge amount of popularity over these 10 years, and people accepted it as the best and the most user-friendly blogging tool, one very basic question that has plagued the end users as well as the developers is – what actually CMS is? While according to one school of thought, it is a blogging software platform, for others it is a comprehensive CMS or Content Management System. Again, another group of people calls it a framework that can be used for blogging. Thus, in future, WP is likely to get a profound identity that will only underline its existence and importance.

Since WP after all, is extremely powerful as well as extendable, its future prospects depend upon how it manages to retain its simplicity, stay as a beautiful software that helps people to share thoughts with others and socialize in a different way.

Security

This is another aspect that is going to determine the future prospect of WordPress application development. Each and every software platform has to encounter various types of attacks as well as challenges from various quarters and WP is no exception. Thus, the security aspects need to be strengthened by a considerable extent if it is to prosper as a reliable CMS platform in the future. Considering the amount of work that is going on for enhancing the security aspect, the future of WordPress looks considerably promising.

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About Steve Nellon Advanced   Software Developer

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