there is not a lot Wordpress topics as far as I see here. I am interested in changing my career to become WP dev. A modern WP dev, with all of side knowledge like deployment, SEO, woocommerce, design, and of course business side. Plugin development also.
I was a wordpress user 10 years ago, and know some design and basic skills. My questions are:
*Is there a future for newbies in wordpress development (like me), and what are the future prospects?
Is wordpress going out of fashion and AI is going to kill it, or some other tech?
Is there demand for WP devs? What is supply-demand of wp devs?
Please some person with in-depth WP world knowledge, thx. My future is on the line.
That’s an interesting question, especially with AI making such an impact in the tech industry.
I work for a company that is focused on WordPress.
As of March 2025, WordPress powers around 61.6% of websites using a known content management system (CMS) and approximately 43.5% of all websites globally. This is a notable increase from previous years—back in 2017, WordPress powered just 27.3% of websites.
WordPress is likely to remain a dominant platform for the foreseeable future, and the demand for WordPress developers will continue, with AI not posing an immediate threat to that demand.
Many major companies rely on WordPress, and there’s no indication that it’s going out of fashion. In fact, WordPress’s dominance in the CMS market has been consistently growing.
There’s still strong demand for good developers — people who understand the stack, know what the business needs, and can actually build solid solutions.
AI is definitely changing how we code, but it’s not replacing devs — it’s evolving the workflow.
If you understand OOP, can work with Gutenberg, ACF, WooCommerce, and are comfortable building headless setups using REST API, GraphQL, etc., you’re already well ahead of the curve.
If you’re worried about getting into WordPress development and think there’s no long-term future — or that AI might make it obsolete — you shouldn’t be.
There’s no greater risk of AI taking over WordPress development than any other area of dev. The general consensus right now is that AI will augment developers, not replace them. And that applies just as much to WordPress as to any other stack.
As for the future of WordPress — even if a shift happens and a large portion of the web moves to something else — you won’t be alone. There’ll be a whole ecosystem shifting with you. And the experience you gain now — working with real clients, building production sites, solving business problems — that will carry over to whatever comes next.