wordpress user survey indicates rising frustration

WordPress released the results of their user and developer survey which showed mixed feelings about the direction the software is going and increasing sense of not being welcome in WordPress community..   Gutenberg is the version of the the default site editor which brings the paradigm of editor to WordPress core...   But 29% disagree that WordPress meets their needs and less than half of users agreed that WordPress met their needs.   The number of users who disagreed that WordPress is as good as or better increased from 9% in 2022 to 13% in 2023 and the number of people.   That means that in 2023 37% of WordPress users responding to the survey did not agree with the statement that WordPress is as good as or better, from the previous year..   That response must be disappointment to the team because the version of Gutenberg is more intuitive to use than it has ever been WordPress performance scores are also at all-time highs...   clue as to why happiness and confidence WordPress is trending downward may have something to do with users looking over the fence at Wix and Duda platforms that boast better performance scores and are also easier to build websites with..   On the other side of the fence are third-party website builders and WordPress hosts that offer superior website building experience for developers.   Joost deValk, co-founder of Yoast SEO sounded the alarm back in 2022 pointing to the slow pace of performance improvements and the difficulty of using WordPress as two major reasons for the shrinking market share...   That oversight feeds into the perception that WordPress is aloof to the millions of users that the survey seeks to understand..   Read more