31 December 2024
By Danielle Holmes, co-founder of Black Nova Design, specialists in web design and IT solutions based in Wiltshire. For more information visit https://blacknovadesigns.co.uk
Working in WordPress in 2024. At Black Nova we’re specialists in using WordPress, a CMS – a content management system. WordPress is the platform used for forty-three per cent of websites on the world wide web. Some people may be sniffy about ‘Wordpress’. But it’s sheer size, compatibility and flexibility means it’s the fastest growing CMS in the world. Around 500 new websites get created daily with a growth of around twelve per cent a year since 2011.
Some of the planet’s most successful companies use WordPress – it’s estimated that the platform has around 75 million users. Further, the term ‘WordPress’ is the subject of around three million searches a month.
The WordPress platform powers an incredible thirty-eight per cent of the top 10,000 websites in the world. That includes household names like Disney, Sony and Facebook.
Given these astonishing statistics, the dawn of 2024 is the perfect time to look at the key WordPress website trends you need to know about in the new year.
Headless WordPress
One key trend to look out for in 2024 is something called ‘Headless WordPress’. We won’t delve too deep into the structure and details of the tech behind this. In essence it means you can have the functionality and ease of use of a WordPress back end with an upscaled, unique and fast front end – the bit people see when they visit your site.While all our websites have bespoke designs, this frees up our designers to use some very cool tools to create even better websites for our clients.
WooCommerce and WordPress grow together
WordPress is a fantastic platform for ecommerce websites, with a range of plugins available to enable payments and order fulfilment. The fastest-growing ecommerce plugin is WooCommerce, which was the platform for 23% of the top 1 million e-commerce websites in 2023. We predict this collaboration will grow even more in 2024.
Collaboration like never before
If you and your team ever use Google Docs or Microsoft Teams to collaborate on projects, you’ll know how much smoother they make working together. Well, the same UX project we mentioned above – Gutenberg Phase 4 – will enable many authors to collaborate on a blog or other content on your WordPress site at the same time.
UX and Google SEO trends
As well as these WordPress-specific changes that are coming, you can expect plenty of changes to UX (user experience) trends, as well as the usual raft of Google tweaks that affect your site’s visibility in their results pages.
Other useful resources
- https://pagely.com/blog/the-future-of-wordpress-exciting-trends-and-updates-to-look-forward-to-in-2024/
- https://www.viget.com/articles/demystifying-wcag-2-2/
