CMS will probably always have its place. This is actully how PHP became popular. From all PHP deployments in 2026 WordPress alone is somewhere in the 80% ballpark (meaning near all PHP projects is WP).
Greenfield rarely uses PHP in 2026, unless its wordpress.
But the CMS market has also shifted, AI can generate good looking websites fast. This means the traditional web agency shops are between a rock and a hard place. Clients no longer pay tens of thousands for a site, and demand is also going down as its semi easy to vibe something in a weekend.
That said rhere WILL be a demand for CMS sites (wordpress) but devs are a dime a dozen, and the quality will most likely be even worse than what youd see traditionally in PHP and wordpress.
Greenfield rarely uses PHP in 2026, unless its wordpress.
But the CMS market has also shifted, AI can generate good looking websites fast. This means the traditional web agency shops are between a rock and a hard place. Clients no longer pay tens of thousands for a site, and demand is also going down as its semi easy to vibe something in a weekend.
That said rhere WILL be a demand for CMS sites (wordpress) but devs are a dime a dozen, and the quality will most likely be even worse than what youd see traditionally in PHP and wordpress.