Calculating how much money is in the WP industry

Speaker: Thomas Buck

It’s estimated that WordPress powers around 23% of all websites.Let that number sink in: it’s a *huge* ecosystem. But where in the money being spent? For example: Support Hosting Custom development and design eCommerce consulting and tools Commercial plugins Commercial themes Customization of plugins and themes

In this talk, I’ll discuss the various economies above that make up the WordPress industry as a whole, their approximate calculated sizes, along with each market’s opportunities and – arguably, more importantly – the challenges each face.

O Marcin Pietrzak

I have been implementing WordPress-related projects since 2007, performing various roles, from webmaster to project manager. I support the open source movement and the development of WordPress by being part of a team of translators of the ecosystem: WP itself, plugins, themes, and related services and applications. However, the most important element of my job is simply being a programmer, dealing with the entire website, both preparing themes and writing plugins. Many of my plugins are available for free in the WordPress repository.