In 2018, WordPress remains the dominant CMS, powering 29% of the internet. The introduction of Gutenberg, a new content editor, is set to reshape website building and improve user experiences, alongside expected enhancements with the release of version 5.0. Additionally, the growth of VR integrations and an expanding theme market are anticipated to enrich content creation and interaction on the platform.

1. WordPress 2018
What Do You Expect?

2. Introduction
Around 29% of the
internet is preferring
WordPress CMS and so, it
has become the world’s
most popular CMS.
So let’s check what’s
making WordPress more
interesting in 2018.

3. Gutenberg Time
Some observe Gutenberg to be the pivotal point where
WordPress users can casually manipulate the CMS, resembling
the powers similar to a developer while others expect big
challenges for website building agencies, theme/plugin
developers and the ecommerce sites dependent on this platform.

4. It’s just few years when WordPress
4.0 was released swaggering some
significant upgrades related to
embedding media and an improved
writing experience. There’s a drop
expected with release of 5.0 this year
since its featuring Gutenberg project
to replace the content editor as well as
the Customizer. Also, 5.0 is sure to
come with a slide of improvements
for easy usage, improving the
experience for content developers and
site users too.

5. Storming the gaming world, virtual reality has actually reached to our
everyday existence. The WordPress VR plugin library is just a small
part of the complete WordPress, you can expect changes to it with the
improving digital world from a computer monitor to a tangible
experience.

6. Rest API was previously introduced in WordPress 4.4 offering a
pivotal moment for developers that were trying to leverage
WordPress. The CMS later started with push/pull data from
mobile apps, desktop applications, cloud apps and other
WordPress sites and served its previous years as a blogging
platform and later was converted into an application platform.
WP Rest API

7. Still powering amazing blogs, it also serves as the primary tool for
both news sites and multimedia experiences. The list of free as well
as paid themes is growing and this year it’s expected that the theme
developers to capitalize on Gutenberg’s block-based approach to
content for creating rich media experiences for users at every
location.