State of Enterprise WordPress 2025

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State of Enterprise WordPress 2025

Sarah

Jan 8, 2026

3 minutes

What this year’s report reveals

Produced in collaboration by leading WordPress agencies, hosting partners and The Scale Consortium, this year’s State of Enterprise WordPress (SOEWP) report lifts the lid on how enterprise brands and publishers are leveraging WordPress to power digital experiences at scale. We unpack the key findings from the report:

Drawing on insights from enterprises including Amnesty International, Google and News UK – the report provides a clear snapshot of how large scale organizations are utilizing WordPress today and where the platform is heading next.

Shifts in usage

This year’s results saw an underlying theme on how enterprises are embracing WordPress, and experiencing its many benefits beyond the engineering team. Participation in the survey from both Marketing and Leadership roles increased this year, highlighting the diversification of the platform and the departments it supports across an organization. Additionally, 53% of respondents stated the CMS is used by at least 50 people, further highlighting WordPress’ adoption from large-scale teams.

We also saw an increased dependence on the platform from this year’s findings, with the majority of respondents (83%) using WordPress on a daily basis, demonstrating how integral the platform has become to enterprises for routine tasks.

Commitment to open-source

Enterprise involvement in open-source continues to grow, with 66% of those surveyed stating they are actively contributing to the platform, a 5% increase on the previous year. This growing participation from big brands is helping to strengthen the platform and solidify its suitability for large-scale organizations.

Continued long-term loyalty

Additionally, the results confirm that enterprise organisations still see strong value in WordPress. 82% of respondents rated their return on investment as ‘excellent’ or ‘good’, along with 95% confirming they plan to use the platform long-term.

Growing momentum

The 2025 findings showcase WordPress as a platform that continues to gain momentum in both capability and dependability for enterprises. The platform, once a simple blogging tool, now firmly sits at the centre of a wide range of enterprise setups, from fast-paced newsrooms to multifaceted marketing operations. More departments are becoming reliant on WordPress and strongly value its capability when it comes to complex publishing processes.

Confidence in long-term commitment to the platform also remains particularly strong. Almost all respondents stated they intended to continue using WordPress and an increased proportion showing strong advocacy. This suggests an exciting outlook for the enterprise WordPress ecosystem and shows that support of the platform is not only holding steady, but intensifying. As major brands and publishers look to stay ahead of the curve and keep their audiences engaged, WordPress continues to deliver and demonstrate its value through usability, versatility and execution.

Overall, this year’s findings demonstrate how WordPress is firmly embedded in enterprise digital strategy, supported by an engaged community who not only rely on the platform, but contribute to its evolution.

View the full results of the State of Enterprise WordPress Survey 2025 at www.soewp.com.

Sarah

You have questions?
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Why are big brands using WordPress?

Leading enterprise brands choose WordPress for its versatility, scalability, and robust ecosystem of plugins. It offers flexibility to create performant, feature-rich websites while providing a user-friendly interface for content management, where businesses can be confident that they have total ownership of their code. Additionally, WordPress has cultivated a vast service provider layer, helping enterprises avoid vendor lock-in through a diverse range of support options.

How is WordPress Free?

WordPress is free to use because it is an open-source platform. This means its source code is freely available for anyone to use, modify, and distribute. Updates are managed by a community of experienced digital professionals who are driven by their belief in open source.

Many of the agencies who work with WordPress are also signatories of Five for the Future, an initiative where organizations contribute five percent of their resources to WordPress development to ensure its long-term sustainability.

How scalable is WordPress?

WordPress is highly scalable and capable of handling websites of all sizes, it can easily be scaled vertically and horizontally leveraging either cloud or bare metal infrastructure. WordPress’s adaptable architecture allows developers to easily accommodate increasing traffic and expanding content.

While WordPress is scaleable out of the box, multiple cloud providers and web hosts offer enhanced scalability through leveraging WordPress’s powerful abstraction layers that allow the use of endless possibilities of distributed database servers, distributed memory object caching servers, and all prominent web servers.

Trusted by the World’s Biggest Brands

Distinguished as the CMS of choice by the world’s biggest brands, WordPress stands as a testament to its reliability, versatility, and proven ability to elevate digital experiences.