{"id":2256,"date":"2019-01-15T12:32:46","date_gmt":"2019-01-15T07:02:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.idslogic.com\/blog\/?p=2256"},"modified":"2025-02-24T15:41:41","modified_gmt":"2025-02-24T10:11:41","slug":"latest-wordpress-development-trends-in-2019-for-better-websites-and-enhanced-interactions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.idslogic.com\/blog\/latest-wordpress-development-trends-in-2019-for-better-websites-and-enhanced-interactions","title":{"rendered":"Latest WordPress Development Trends in 2019 for Better Websites and Enhanced Interactions"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_72 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-grey ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<div class=\"ez-toc-title-container\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<span class=\"ez-toc-title-toggle\"><a href=\"#\" class=\"ez-toc-pull-right ez-toc-btn ez-toc-btn-xs ez-toc-btn-default ez-toc-toggle\" aria-label=\"Toggle Table of Content\"><span class=\"ez-toc-js-icon-con\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #999;color:#999\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #999;color:#999\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a><\/span><\/div>\n<nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/www.idslogic.com\/blog\/latest-wordpress-development-trends-in-2019-for-better-websites-and-enhanced-interactions\/#Video_Headers\" title=\"Video Headers:\">Video Headers:<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-2\" href=\"https:\/\/www.idslogic.com\/blog\/latest-wordpress-development-trends-in-2019-for-better-websites-and-enhanced-interactions\/#Drag_and_Drop_Option_Will_Gain_Popularity\" title=\"Drag and Drop Option Will Gain Popularity:\">Drag and Drop Option Will Gain Popularity:<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-3\" href=\"https:\/\/www.idslogic.com\/blog\/latest-wordpress-development-trends-in-2019-for-better-websites-and-enhanced-interactions\/#Focus_on_Mobile_Based_Design\" title=\"Focus on Mobile Based Design:\">Focus on Mobile Based Design:<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-4\" href=\"https:\/\/www.idslogic.com\/blog\/latest-wordpress-development-trends-in-2019-for-better-websites-and-enhanced-interactions\/#Adding_VR_and_AR_to_WordPress\" title=\"Adding VR and AR to WordPress:\">Adding VR and AR to WordPress:<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-5\" href=\"https:\/\/www.idslogic.com\/blog\/latest-wordpress-development-trends-in-2019-for-better-websites-and-enhanced-interactions\/#More_Emphasis_on_Animations\" title=\"More Emphasis on Animations:\">More Emphasis on Animations:<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-6\" href=\"https:\/\/www.idslogic.com\/blog\/latest-wordpress-development-trends-in-2019-for-better-websites-and-enhanced-interactions\/#Sign_up_our_Newsletter\" title=\"Sign up our Newsletter!\">Sign up our Newsletter!<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"font-size: 18pt; color: #000080;\">With more than 1.8 billion websites on the internet, more than one-quarter of them are powered by WordPress, which has evolved a lot from a blogging platform to the most popular open source content management system. <\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Furthermore, it is persistently growing to keep the WP website well and protected, and also visually attractive to potential customers. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">With innovative design and coding trends, you can now use the best WordPress tools, templates, add-ons and plugins as well as ensure a perfect process for your website. But developers should know and understand the latest WP development trends in 2019 for the best results.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Here, in this blog let\u2019s take a look at some of the latest WordPress trends:<\/span><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Video_Headers\"><\/span><span style=\"color: #21759b; font-size: 18pt;\"><strong><br \/>\nVideo Headers:<\/strong><\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">If you have an online business, then you must be aware of the fact that videos represent the most influential content that is posted on the site. This is the reason why it is a leading web design trend and if you want to take advantage of using videos, then its <\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"font-size: 18pt; color: #000080;\">version Vaughn 4.7 WordPress has great capability to loop video headers. <\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">It has helped to create some new decorative and innovative options and has also supported customization and the video header has taken it to a new level. Earlier, the video headers were used only is some specific instances, but we expect it to change this year as more and more themes offer this capability.<\/span><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Drag_and_Drop_Option_Will_Gain_Popularity\"><\/span><span style=\"color: #21759b; font-size: 18pt;\"><strong><br \/>\nDrag and Drop Option Will Gain Popularity:<\/strong><\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">WordPress development<\/span> is gaining popularity as it enables the users to customize their sites very easily and for this, you don\u2019t have to be a web development expert. WordPress offers simple tools, few users may find it challenging to begin. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 18pt; color: #000080;\">The Drag and drop process will make the customization process easy and new users can now easily change the web design without any technical help with the drag and drop feature.<\/span><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h2><\/h2>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Focus_on_Mobile_Based_Design\"><\/span><span style=\"color: #21759b;\"><strong>Focus on Mobile Based Design:<\/strong><\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Another most popular trend that will gain popularity is the mobile-based design, which means Accelerated Mobile pages and Progressive Web Apps. <\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"font-size: 16pt; color: #000080;\">Google gives preference to AMP pages while considering the ranking factor and this is because most of the traffic comes from mobile devices and also because the AMP pages are lighter and the visitors don\u2019t have to wait for a long time for everything to load. <\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">To cater to this issue, developers are not making mobile friendly WordPress themes that will make the launch of a website much easier.<\/span><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h2><\/h2>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Adding_VR_and_AR_to_WordPress\"><\/span><span style=\"color: #21759b;\"><strong>Adding VR and AR to WordPress:<\/strong><\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Virtual reality apps are already making waves digitally and <span style=\"color: #993300;\"><a style=\"color: #993300;\" href=\"\/dedicated-wordpress-developer\/\">WordPress developers<\/a> <\/span>are creating the plugins that can help to embed VR\/ AR and 360-degree content on WordPress websites.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: #000080; font-size: 16pt;\">This is just the beginning of using VR and as we move towards the end of 2019, we will find more and more usage of VR\/AR embedded in various WordPress websites. <\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Another thing to mention is that virtual reality photos will be of great help for video and photo-based websites where the creators can provide a holistic view of the complete area that they want to cover.<\/span><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h2><\/h2>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"More_Emphasis_on_Animations\"><\/span><span style=\"color: #21759b;\"><strong>More Emphasis on Animations:<\/strong><\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Earlier flash based animations gained much popularity on websites, but they had some limitations due to which they faded. But now they are returning back because of improved HTML5 and CSS3, and this has made the user experience more interactive and vibrant. <\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"font-size: 16pt; color: #000080;\">Many WordPress websites are now using particle animations instead of using images and videos because they can be created easily in JavaScript, as there are many libraries available. <\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Animations also help to provide the users with the information that they would have derived from watching videos.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"font-size: 18pt; color: #800000;\">To conclude, I can state that 2019 would be an exciting year for the WordPress community as a whole, where we will see a lot of trends getting adopted by various websites and WordPress will gain more popularity with better features, functionalities, and plugins.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"box-shadow: 0 0 16px #cccccc; padding: 10px;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><strong>Also Read:<\/strong><\/span><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">\u00a0<a style=\"color: #ff0000;\" href=\"\/blog\/top-latest-technology-trends-that-you-wish-to-add-to-your-list-2019\">Top Latest Technology Trends That You Wish to Add to Your List 2019<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<hr \/>\n<div class=\"newsletter_form\">\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Sign_up_our_Newsletter\"><\/span>Sign up our Newsletter!<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<div class=\"emaillist\" id=\"es_form_f0-n1\"><form action=\"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2256#es_form_f0-n1\" method=\"post\" class=\"es_subscription_form es_shortcode_form  es_ajax_subscription_form\" id=\"es_subscription_form_6a3a525d91638\" data-source=\"ig-es\" data-form-id=\"0\"><div class=\"es-field-wrap\"><label>Name<br \/><input type=\"text\" name=\"esfpx_name\" class=\"ig_es_form_field_name\" placeholder=\"\" value=\"\" \/><\/label><\/div><div class=\"es-field-wrap\"><label>Email*<br \/><input class=\"es_required_field es_txt_email ig_es_form_field_email\" type=\"email\" name=\"esfpx_email\" value=\"\" placeholder=\"\" required=\"required\" \/><\/label><\/div><input type=\"hidden\" name=\"esfpx_form_id\" value=\"0\" \/><input type=\"hidden\" name=\"es\" value=\"subscribe\" \/>\n\t\t\t<input type=\"hidden\" name=\"esfpx_es_form_identifier\" value=\"f0-n1\" \/>\n\t\t\t<input type=\"hidden\" name=\"esfpx_es_email_page\" value=\"2256\" \/>\n\t\t\t<input type=\"hidden\" name=\"esfpx_es_email_page_url\" value=\"https:\/\/www.idslogic.com\/blog\/latest-wordpress-development-trends-in-2019-for-better-websites-and-enhanced-interactions\" \/>\n\t\t\t<input type=\"hidden\" name=\"esfpx_status\" value=\"Unconfirmed\" \/>\n\t\t\t<input type=\"hidden\" name=\"esfpx_es-subscribe\" id=\"es-subscribe-6a3a525d91638\" value=\"e12a72702e\" \/>\n\t\t\t<label style=\"position:absolute;top:-99999px;left:-99999px;z-index:-99;\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><span hidden>Please leave this field empty.<\/span><input type=\"email\" name=\"esfpx_es_hp_email\" class=\"es_required_field\" tabindex=\"-1\" autocomplete=\"-1\" value=\"\" \/><\/label><input type=\"submit\" name=\"submit\" class=\"es_subscription_form_submit es_submit_button es_textbox_button\" id=\"es_subscription_form_submit_6a3a525d91638\" value=\"Subscribe\" \/><span class=\"es_spinner_image\" id=\"spinner-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.idslogic.com\/blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/email-subscribers\/lite\/public\/images\/spinner.gif\" alt=\"Loading\" \/><\/span><\/form><span class=\"es_subscription_message \" id=\"es_subscription_message_6a3a525d91638\" role=\"alert\" aria-live=\"assertive\"><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With more than 1.8 billion websites on the internet, more than one-quarter of them are powered by WordPress, which has evolved a lot from a blogging platform to the most popular open source content management system. 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