Seeing “21 thoughts on WP 21”, I couldn’t resist adding the 22nd. Just as in 22, one looks ahead to the next chapters of life – becoming an adult, building a career, and perhaps marriage and family, WP should now look beyond its blogging roots and evolve into a mature framework for enterprise – internal tools, no-code solutions, SaaS and like. With its robust features, WP has the potential to revolutionize the enterprise app ecosystem, just as it transformed websites.

I’m very curious how the demand for multi-lingual sites will evolve in the next few years when real-time translation becomes really ubiquitous and high-quality on the client side.

Happy 21st Anniversary, WordPress!

“Every plugin and theme should have all the infrastructure that we use to build WordPress itself—version control, bug trackers, forums, documentation, internationalization, chat rooms, P2, and easy pathways for contribution and community. We shouldn’t be uploading ZIPs in 2024!”

Congratulations, Matt! Thanks