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WordPress is one of the most popular Content Management Systems or CMS used by professional web design companies and develops millions of beautiful and functional websites. It is easy to use, offers many features that allow designers to develop a unique web design for all types of customers, and is continuously being improved every year.
The good news from WordPress is that there are some great trends that web design services working with WordPress can expect moving forward into 2018.
Drag and Drop Themes
The biggest news of the year is the growing availability of drag and drop web design themes. Although drag and drop functionality is only available in premium, customizable themes, the cost seems well worth it.
Drag and drop themes allow web design services to create stylish and effective websites without needing to write any code. They also give designers a quick and easy way to experiment with various looks, layouts, and plugins.
Duotone, Photo, and Video Themes
Visual websites became a big trend in 2017 and the trend seems only to be growing. Most notably, professional web design services are using more duotone color schemes in their designs along with large, full-page imagery.
Video in website design has become even more important over the past year. WordPress users can now find a much larger selection of photo-based themes; themes with video headers, background, and other video capabilities; and themes with different duotone palettes.
More WordPress VR Plugins
In addition to the increased availability of more visual-based WordPress themes, web design services now have more VR plugins available to them as well.
These plugins give designers the ability to include 360° photos and videos as well as other VR content like games and video tours, all of which have grown significantly in popularity.
While there are no VR-ready professional web design WordPress themes available right now and plugins are still necessary, the hope of many is that some will be released soon.
Improved Ecommerce Themes
WordPress theme developers are also making strides in keeping up with ecommerce technology.
A number of newly released ecommerce themes offer easier integration with PayPal and other payment platforms, more personalized user experiences, better mobile shopping, responsive designs, subscription-based sales, and easier site-building and customization.
Web design companies looking for an easier way to build custom retail websites should look into these newer and more functional options.
Improved Admin Area
Although it is not out yet, developers have suggested that there will be a significant upgrade to the WordPress admin area with the anticipated 2018 release of WordPress 5.0.
Blog posting and page management will become easier since the entire text editor interface is being revamped. No word yet on when this can be expected; however, previews of the new interface are currently available on the paid WordPress.com platform.
Overall, it seems as though 2018 is going to be an exciting year for web design services who build their sites using the popular and convenient WordPress publishing platform.
The selection of fully customizable professional web design themes is growing considerably to include the most important trends in web design today!
