Wordpress will be dead soon

WordPress is a sinking ship. The rise of serverless and no or low code tools has made it easier than ever to launch fast cheap websites, No shitty CMS, no patchwork of plugins equivalent to sewage, no bloated backend. WordPress is stuck in the past: slow to scale, expensive to optimize, and a nightmare to secure. It’s no wonder people are jumping ship. Are you going to sink with it?

WordPress has its flaws, but it still works well for content and SEO-heavy sites. Serverless is great, but it’s not a one-size-fits-all. Right tool for the right job.

I don't think so. I think it’s actually a little over dramatic to reference WP as a “sinking ship”. Sure, the no-code and serverless hype train is chugging along, but WP isn’t displaying anytime soon. It drives more than 40% of the web in blogs, in major media sites and e-commerce shops, you name it. If a platform as versatile as that was truly dying for obituaries, we’d know it because we would have seen them all walking off in droves. Instead, you have a huge ecosystem of theme and plugin developers always creating, and regular core updates that seal up security flaws and improve performance.

Yes, sometimes plugins are just applying duct tape to a leaky pipe, but with a modicum of effort, doing a bit of research to source good add-ons, keeping everything up-to-date, reading up on software you install, you avoid all but the fireworks. And as for scaling, loads of managed WP hosts are taking caching, load balancing, and security off the shelf now-a-days. I wouldn’t try to predict the future, but in the near term, I don’t foresee WP disappearing, I think it will also evolve as new tools do. It may not be shiny serverless magic, but it’s an established, versatile workhorse that’s not going anywhere anytime soon.

In these situations, I rely on the stats and numbers rather than my feelings:

Wordpress will become an optimum package environment for Interactive Web Apps. At least, that's what I'm planning: a WordPress intermediary backend and front-end main pages, followed by an app embedded with web assembly inside a plugin for the WordPress site. Best of both worlds, create an app, that can't be copied by ai, and host it inside the greatest website hosting software package there is!

virtualcpu said:

WordPress is a sinking ship. The rise of serverless and no or low code tools has made it easier than ever to launch fast cheap websites, No shitty CMS, no patchwork of plugins equivalent to sewage, no bloated backend. WordPress is stuck in the past: slow to scale, expensive to optimize, and a nightmare to secure. It’s no wonder people are jumping ship. Are you going to sink with it?

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Well WP still powers 40%+ of the web for a reason: flexibility, plugins, and control

But yes, no-code tools are rising fast

Wordpress is free forever.
The top no-code website/app platform is bubble.io, it was free for 5-6 years you know how much it costs now?
Here
Starter
Best for launching your app and testing
$32/ month

And thats for only 1 website.
Free plan is useless now you can create only 10 rows in the database. Talk about server less, holy cow! You are now database less!

That's a bad news but i hope not , all my themes in themeforest will die lol

virtualcpu said:

WordPress is a sinking ship. The rise of serverless and no or low code tools has made it easier than ever to launch fast cheap websites, No shitty CMS, no patchwork of plugins equivalent to sewage, no bloated backend. WordPress is stuck in the past: slow to scale, expensive to optimize, and a nightmare to secure. It’s no wonder people are jumping ship. Are you going to sink with it?

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WP dying? You must be dreaming, bud.

Yeah it has a few cons but tbh its still pretty solid for those that dont have much experience building websites and I myself used to use it back in the day.

Nah, WordPress isn’t going anywhere. For SEO, content sites, and community tools, it still crushes and gives people the right tools to start a great website.
No-code tools are cool, but WP gives complete control, and with the proper setup, it's fast and secure enough.

Yes Wordpress is dying but not for the reasons you gave. It's dying because of Matthew Mullenweg and his stupid crusade.

Serverless is a moneypit. It will eat you alive.

Wordpress is the most popular CMS and you can't just replace CMS'. What else will you use? Do you think normies will code their own websites or pay thousands of dollars just for a blog with a monthly audience of 4 users?

Low code tools are stupid, expensive and annoying.

Wordpress made creating websites as simple as creating a design in Canva. The amount of plugins, guides, and add-ons is enormous. WP can't disappear overnight. You may find alternatives but you can't even mention one perfect alternative for everyone to immediately switch. If interactive web apps or AI tools make it easy to create, host, and manage sites without much hassle, and offer all tools and resources of WP, then we can expect users to migrate. Otherwise, people continue to use WP for effortless web design and development.

virtualcpu said:

WordPress is a sinking ship. The rise of serverless and no or low code tools has made it easier than ever to launch fast cheap websites, No shitty CMS, no patchwork of plugins equivalent to sewage, no bloated backend. WordPress is stuck in the past: slow to scale, expensive to optimize, and a nightmare to secure. It’s no wonder people are jumping ship. Are you going to sink with it?

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Better options exist

I don't think it will die soon. For example you are speaking serverless, but how many of us are that kind of technical. There are lots of maintenance cost isnot low here.

While it's true that the web development landscape is evolving rapidly with the rise of serverless architecture but wordpress is not sinking it's maturing in a legacy-dominated space. While newer paradigms are more performant and scalable, they often trade ease-of-use and flexibility for control and complexity.

You're thinking like a dev. The 40%+ of websites using WP don't care about the tech, they just want something that's easy to publish content to.

while WordPress has its issues, isn't its flexibility, massive plugin ecosystem, and rest/graphql support still valuable in many use cases especially when paired with a modern headless front end

virtualcpu said:

WordPress is a sinking ship. The rise of serverless and no or low code tools has made it easier than ever to launch fast cheap websites, No shitty CMS, no patchwork of plugins equivalent to sewage, no bloated backend. WordPress is stuck in the past: slow to scale, expensive to optimize, and a nightmare to secure. It’s no wonder people are jumping ship. Are you going to sink with it?

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I have been hearing this for the last 10 years. I had quit wp myself back in 2015 probably. I did not quit wp because I hated it or anything, but because I had found easier and more robust ways of building a website.

The truth is, people use wp because they want to build a website without having to code. This still is the same, whether we like it or not. Even with the recent controversies, I don’t see wp going anywhere atleast until something better arrives.

Edit: As for wp not being secure, you can make it absolutely impossible to hack if you only use wp as a cms backend and use a separate frontend. Wp has built in json api to enable you to do so (or just use the db directly).

Thanks for the laugh OP, cheers to another 20 years.

WP still powers more than 40% of the web but nowadays revolutions have never felt more unsettling

From a dev's perspective, yes, it's dead. A monolithic PHP giant consuming server and database resources for every request, unless optimized, is simply not in the spirit of the times anymore. Fun fact: job offers requiring PHP/MySQL are already referred to as "willingness to work with legacy systems" in my field.

I read some here mention the enormous cost of serverless, which is only true if you actually have something to compute. Hint: a headless CMS with static export to Cloudflare Pages and a rebuild hook on changes can be close to free—with unlimited traffic, unmatched availability, and speed.

Matthew Mullenweg is another valid point some of you raised.

All that being said, nope, I don't think WordPress is going anywhere overnight. The entry barrier and maintenance effort are unmatchedly low. The ecosystem around it is huge. And most importantly, many people have never seen anything else. And people hate change.

At its current stage, the only possibility of it going away that I see is that it will vanish very slowly over a long time. Think about it like the Titanic. People didn’t believe it could sink at all, but when it did, it did so very slowly, simply because it was so huge.

Technically, WordPress is not sustainable in my opinion. But I also think this question is not about tech but about humans. And in the case of humans, I’d bet 10 out of 10 times on convenience over change.