WordPress is becoming increasingly popular. Not only in the United States, but also worldwide. Currently, 27.5% of all websites worldwide are built with WordPress. What will 2019 look like for WordPress users? What WordPress trends can you expect and what should you take into account? You can read all that in this week's blog!
Video Headers
If you follow the trends around website development a bit, this comes as no surprise. Video is known as the most influential content you can put on a website. This is one of the biggest reasons that using video headers is a leading website trend. You can expect to see more and more trends in video for the year 2019.
WordPress has received many compliments in recent months. Making it possible to loop video headers is the reason for this. This has created some innovative and new options for users. WordPress has always encouraged customization. With this trend, WordPress is also ensuring that customization is taken to a new level.
More and more themes are expected to steer toward "video-first" designs. This is partly because almost all social media platforms are investing a lot in new video formats. Think live streaming, for example.
Website push notifications
Many websites these days use push notifications. You know that one text message or that one notification on the smartphone that you get from downloaded applications. Instead of a text message or notification on your smartphone, you now get a notification via PC or laptop. This is a very handy tool to reach website visitors quickly and easily.
This trend will only become more common in 2019.
Mobile-friendly WordPress trends
Mobile-friendly WordPress themes is another trend you can expect to see in 2019. At Monkey Vision , we've covered it a number of times in OTHER blogs appointed. It has become incredibly important that your website is Optimized for mobile. The increase of people preferring to browse the Internet via mobile has already started since 2016.
At the time, 51.3% of internet users were surfing rather via their smartphone or tablet. After that year, the number is 4% annually increased. A good reason for template and WordPress theme developers to focus on mobile Internet users.
Integration of Ecommerce Services.
WordPress has been the driving force behind the growing number of ecommerce stores in the United States and worldwide. Nowadays you have a large number of different plugins and themes you can download. These plugins and themes allow you to develop an ecommerce store faster and easier. Some plugins are even very specific to certain fields. WP Booking System is a good example of this. With plugins like these, 2019 could be a very successful year for online entrepreneurs.
We expect these four WordPress trends for 2019, to be instrumental in the successes of WordPress websites and ecommerce stores. You can never guarantee success, however, if you capitalize on these four trends, then you are at least taking a step in the right direction!
