Top WordPress Trends To Look Forward to in 2022

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1. Full Site Editing

WordPress has been working on Full Site Editing (FSE) as part of its Gutenberg project roadmap. FSE is the second phase that started in 2021. WordPress 5.8 release in August 2021 introduced the early FSE features to WordPress users. Full Site Editing enables WordPress users to edit page content and website design 

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1. Full Site Editing

simultaneously through drag-and-drop blocks.  We can expect more FSE features when WordPress 5.9 drops in January 2022.

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2. Block Themes

Block themes are WordPress themes with templates that make FSE possible. Using the Gutenberg block editor, you can use these block themes to edit posts and website elements such as headers, footers, and sidebars. Block themes are still largely experimental as FSE is still in its infant stages. 

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3. Gutenberg Improvements

Along with developments in FSE and block themes, we expect to see improvements to the Gutenberg plugin. Gutenberg is following a four-phase roadmap that aims to change how WordPress users edit and customize their websites. Gutenberg 11.9 — the latest version — introduced improvements to

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3. Gutenberg Improvements

the Site Editor in preparation for FSE. The subsequent two phases of the Gutenberg project are collaboration and multilingual support, so we can expect the upcoming Gutenberg releases to include advancements in those areas.

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4. Headless WordPress

As we move into The Next Decade of the Web, one trend we’re looking at is a headless content management system (CMS). A headless CMS contains separate website front and back ends, perfect for omnichannel marketing applications.

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4. Headless WordPress

While WordPress wasn’t intended to be a headless CMS, its large market share makes it a popular choice for headless architecture.   Expect developments in this space as more companies use WordPress for its backend functionality in the coming year.

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5. Improving SEO With Google Core Web Vitals

In June 2021, Google started rolling out the Page Experience update, an algorithm update that introduced three new ranking signals to improve page experience. The update was completed in September 2021. You will now need tools such as Google’s Page Speed Insights to understand how to optimize your website for speed and ranking.

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6. Accessibility Improvements

WordPress 5.6 release in December 2020 introduced several accessibility improvements. It provided the ability to add captions and subtitles to videos using the Web Video Text Tracks format (WebVTT) in the Gutenberg video block.

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6. Accessibility Improvements

You can expect that trend to continue as WordPress works on WordPress 5.6’s default Twenty Twenty-One theme that conformed to WordPress accessibility-ready guidelines. Besides that, Colorado became the first state to require state and local government websites to meet accessibility standards in 2021. 

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6. Accessibility Improvements

Other states might soon follow suit, leading to more improvements in WordPress accessibility.

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7. WordPress for E-Commerce

While it was considered a platform for small businesses, WordPress is now used by large enterprises for e-commerce. In Matt Mullenweg’s keynote address at State of the Word 2020, he shared that e-commerce was a megatrend that helped propel WordPress (and subsequently, WooCommerce) forward.

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7. WordPress for E-Commerce

While it was considered a platform for small businesses, WordPress is now used by large enterprises for e-commerce. In Matt Mullenweg’s keynote address at State of the Word 2020, he shared that e-commerce was a megatrend that helped propel WordPress (and subsequently, WooCommerce) forward.

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