{"id":21532,"date":"2022-04-04T22:23:14","date_gmt":"2022-04-04T20:23:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.makingscience.com\/?p=21532"},"modified":"2022-04-04T22:23:14","modified_gmt":"2022-04-04T20:23:14","slug":"back-to-the-future-with-wordpress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.makingscience.com\/us\/blog\/back-to-the-future-with-wordpress\/","title":{"rendered":"Back to the future with WordPress"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Back in 2003, the concept of \u201cWeb 2.0\u201d was a mysterious, elusive trend that was taking the world of web development by storm. At that time, a small group of people dedicated to the open-source philosophy released what is known today as one of the most powerful CMS solutions in the world.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">According to<\/span> <a href=\"https:\/\/w3techs.com\/technologies\/history_overview\/content_management\/all\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">W3Techs<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, as of February 2022, from all of the indexed websites that use CMS as an integrated solution, over 65% of those websites use WordPress as their CMS of choice, which is an outstanding and impressive statistic by itself, but even more impressive is the fact that it\u2019s maintained a steady growth year-over-year since its release.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>Web development took a break<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">WordPress\u2019 resum\u00e9 is impressive. Yet, a few years after its release, the world of web design and development inevitably took a break from WordPress. It began to explore newer solutions like Drupal, Joomla, Wagtail, etc. With the web being the force of nature that it is, the world moves on very quickly. If current solutions aren\u2019t able to keep up and maintain a steady level of innovation, it is almost guaranteed to be game over.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Years ago, WordPress faced several issues, including: <\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">a convoluted and unmaintainable plugin-based solution<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">a lack of support for trailblazing trends<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">As such, WordPress became, especially for Front-End development, a limiting and restraining environment for innovation. It was a matter of time until devs moved on in search of greener pastures.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>Back to the future<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Nevertheless, WordPress\u2019 adventure wasn\u2019t over. They continued gathering feature requests and user feedback and kept growing, building, expanding, and innovating. Fast-forward to today and there are pretty much no limitations regarding web development and WordPress. Gone were the days when developers had to make sacrifices in order to implement it as a solution.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">These are some of the reasons why our teams at Making Science strongly believe in implementing WordPress as a solid, robust, and versatile solution for our clients. We\u2019re taking it to the most demanding and innovative implementations with technologies like React, Vue, Angular, among others. In this way, we create an immersive, effective, and strongly engaging experience for our clients\u2019 users.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">As WordPress continues to grow, so do we: adapting, changing and growing. Make the most of your WordPress site by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.makingscience.com\/contact\">reaching out to our team today<\/a>!<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Back in 2003, the concept of \u201cWeb 2.0\u201d was a mysterious, elusive trend that was taking the world of web development by storm. At that time, a small group of people dedicated to the open-source philosophy released what is known today as one of the most powerful CMS solutions in the world. 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