WordPress Design Trends

What does the current WordPress design landscape look like? What are popular and upcoming design trends to look out for? We’ll take a look at the current WordPress design ecosystem and explore how it’s projected to change in the next year.

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1. WordPress Design
   Trends
   

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2. I am Mel Choyce
   • Design Engineer at Automattic
   • WordPress core contributor
   • Live in Boston, MA
   • @melchoyce | choycedesign.com | melchoyce.com
   

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3. Trends are just tools
   

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4. Industry Trends
   

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5. WordPress can do
   almost anything
   

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6. Microsites for 

   Big Companies
   

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13. Tech Blogs
    

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19. News / Big Media
    

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25. Enterprise
    

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28. Celebrities
    

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31. Apps
    

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34. Future
    

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37. Visual Trends
    

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38. Syncing up with
    Industry Trends Faster
    

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39. Standardization of
    Design Patterns
    

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40. Material Design
    

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42. Flat Design
    

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43. http://designmodo.github.io/Flat-UI/
    

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44. Mobile Patterns

    on the Web
    

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45. Off-Screen Menus
    

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47. https://thethemefoundry.com/wordpress-themes/bailey/
    

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48. Single Column Designs
    

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50. https://wordpress.com/themes/ecto
    

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52. https://wordpress.com/themes/scrawl
    

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53. Modular Design
    

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55. Cards
    

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56. Tiles
    

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58. http://www.84paris.com/en/home
    

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61. Animation
    

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62. Animation
    

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63. Animation (Bad)
    

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64. Animation (Bad)
    

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65. Parallax on the Decline
    

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66. Immersive, Media-Rich
    Experiences
    

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68. http://brandts.dk/
    

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71. Video Headers 

    or Backgrounds
    

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74. Designing to Drive
    Reader Engagement
    

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75. Read time
    

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77. Progression
    

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79. Infinite Scrolling

    of Posts
    

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81. Design that Look 

    More Like Print
    

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82. Richer, More Refined
    Typography
    

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87. Complex and
    Asymmetrical Grids
    

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89. https://dribbble.com/shots/2131697-Bear-Mattress-Full
    

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91. https://dribbble.com/shots/2003347-Troubadour-Goods-product-page
    

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93. https://dribbble.com/shots/2132930-CHX-Studio-Creative-Production
    

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94. Future
    

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95. Gradients Making a
    Comeback
    

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98. https://dribbble.com/shots/2124489-The-Opoiki-Free-PSD
    

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99. Illustration
    

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100. https://dribbble.com/shots/2128057-Whale-Migration
     

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101. http://www.altosadventure.com/
     

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102. https://dribbble.com/shots/2131995-Home
     

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103. Theme Trends
     

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104. Responsive Web Design
     

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106. It’s not a trend:
     it’s an expectation
     Go responsive or go home.
     

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107. “Responsive” is the #1 used feature filter
     in the WordPress.org Theme Directory
     (Leading the #2 filter by 19.1%)
     https://wordpress.slack.com/archives/meta/p1435859343000128
     

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108. “Though 79% of [Themeforest]
     themes say they’re responsive, these
     make up 93% of overall earnings.”
     http://inside.envato.com/pressnomics/
     

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109. Resolution Independence
     

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111. Icon Fonts
     

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113. Icon Fonts
     

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114. SVG
     

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115. https://wordpress.org/plugins/ricg-responsive-images/
     

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116. Specialization
     

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117. “WordPress theme buyers are often
     characterized as wanting the highest number
     of features that can be crammed into a single
     theme. Our search data contradicts this.”
     http://inside.envato.com/pressnomics/
     

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118. “Over 70% of ThemeForest
     searches are focused around
     niche themes.”
     http://inside.envato.com/pressnomics/
     

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119. Thank you!
     @melchoyce | choycedesign.com | melchoyce.com
     

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