How viable is WordPress in 2026?

You should start thinking about ways to extend MD beyond WP. I've had several informal discussions with long established and successful 7-figure WP product owners and they are making those plans now.

This was one of the most profound responses from the newsletter and an increasing part of the zeitgeist around web development. If you are tapped into the web design space, especially on X, you will undoubtedly hear a lot of stories about people moving away from WordPress.

There's so much to write about this subject and from a business standpoint especially, there's a pretty simple case to be made.

I've been able to reliably ignore this debate in the past because of the times I tried to move away from WordPress and always went back due to various limitations. However, the unique tooling of AI finally offers real alternative in a way that wasn't really possible before.

During the quiet period here, I had all the opportunity in the world to keep it that way and walk away to move on, but truth is I am a WordPress maximalist and use it for pretty much everything. I even integrate the one non-WordPress software I do use into it.

You may not see me launch many more business in the WordPress space as I have two that already keep me plenty busy, but MD and the core of my work is for people who don't use the web exclusively to make money and I think that minimizes a lot of the business and for-profit considerations I have to make to carry on here.