WordPress is perhaps the world’s most widely adopted CMS: I have read that it powers over 200 million websites worldwide. I have not verified that statistic so please let me know if you can find a reliable source.
Even though it is was originally a blog publishing platform, it can easily be used for most simple websites with pages, blogs, and comments with all the bells, whistles, and upgrades that have been created for it by open-source programmers in every corner of the world. WordPress is a great choice with a future and it is readily available. If you have a static or old website, consider using WordPress as your CMS (content management systems) and moving ALL of your old content into it. WordPress has enabled many millions of people to update and build bigger, better, and more organized websites in less time, and at lower cost than any other alternative.
Why WordPress is cool:
- WordPress is the #1 blogging software in the world and has gone through so many versions that it has become extremely user friendly
- WordPress is growing as fast as ever and the company has recently raised millions to take it to the next level. This is one platform that will still be around in 5 years (an important consideration)
- There is an amazing 7000+ collection of plug-ins and add-ons, even industry specific ones. Because WordPress is so popular it has the largest amount of active developers compared to every other CMS in the world.
- WordPress has a very simple theme system that makes it very easy to change the look and feel of your site. Since it’s so easy to do and it’s so widely adopted, it has a huge number of free themes to build your look and feel with. On the custom side, learning to theme WordPress and design custom templates is simple so you can get good prices on customized themes. There are entire sites online dedicated to selling you customized themes and freelancers and web designers from all over the world ready to make your ideal presentation a reality.
WordPress as a Resource:
I even wrote a post with an I heart WordPress image expounding on all the wonders WordPress offered.
I still like it and highly recommend it to people wanting to build websites. This E-Book is in WordPress, and socialmediasystems.com is a Multi-User (WPMU) ‘Blog’.
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