TL;DR: State of the Word 2025 Key Updates
The State of the Word 2025 event highlighted the continued global expansion of WordPress, the launch of version 6.9, and foundational strategic investments in AI that focus on empowering users and contributors.
- Market Dominance: WordPress powers over 40% of the web and accounts for approximately 60% of the CMS market.
- Global Adoption: Over 56% of WordPress sites are now in non-English languages. Japanese is the second most popular language used in WordPress today.
- Enterprise Use: WordPress is growing among top-tier sites, now used by 49.4% of the world's top 1000 websites, an increase of 2.3% from last year.
- Ecosystem Health: The ecosystem features over 60,000 approved plugins (up 68% since 2024), totaling 74,000 plugins and themes. There have been 2.1 billion plugin downloads this year.