Over the years WordPress has become one of the leading content management systems, to think back to days where people questioned its ability to be more than a blogging platform only leads me to a good chuckle. I’ve played with so many content management systems, from Drupal to Expression Engine to Joomla to even some smaller ones, I can honestly say that WordPress has it all.
WordPress powers over 70 million blogs on the Internet, if you want to look at the activity, WordPress has an awesome stats page with a global activity map and more over here. A more impressive statistic is that WordPress powers 49% of the top blogs on Technorati’s list.
Take a look at this:
Pretty darn impressive for a “blogging platform” if you ask me.
On a side note: iMod ran for several years on a custom CMS that I wrote myself, also powered by PHP and MySQL, but I finally went over to the dark side and the three things that have kept me plugged into WordPress are:
- Community Support
- Security Updates
- Plugins
Just those three things alone make WordPress an incredible platform.
Are you using WordPress? What is your favourite feature?
The ease of setup and use is pretty awesome, and being able to download plugins and themes right from the admin panel is also cool. I actually work with WordPress sites for client work because of the quick setup time.
Now if only it wasn’t built on PHP, and didn’t destroy CPUs :|
I agree, ease of setup in this day and age is absolutely crucial and WordPress have done a stellar job of getting that right. Theme’s.. of course, for the masses that want to get something going quickly and want the ability to choose a design, it’s utterly fantastic.
Yeh, the CPU thing is a big bummer, I’ve been HEAVILY restricted in that regard :/
I have watched it become the industry standard over the last few years – WordPress allosws the CMS and blogging functionaliyty
That is essential to appear on the first page of google whithout having to be a programer or pay hevty web design fees
In short it Rocks and I’m gonna redo my websiyte with it
Blogs away!
And in terms of using it as a site development CMS (not so much for blogging)?