Brendan Tully2 Comments
July 21, 2022
(Note: I wrote this blog post a while back because we we’re explaining the virtues of Wordpress so often that I thought it would be worth putting on the web!
Today in 2015 Wordpress now powers roughly 20% of the top 1 million websites in the world, it leads the market by a huge margin, click this link to see a full breakdown and comparison of CMS market share. You don’t get that much of a lead on the market unless you’re doing something right!)
We’re regularly asked which website CMS platform we use – Wordpress is our preferred CMS platform by a long way for a number of reasons. We’ve highlighted some of the reasons further down the page and have included a handy infographic which presents this in a much more impactful visual format.
In episode 24 of our podcast The Business Marketing Show we discussed CMSes and Wordpress. Definitely worth a listen if you’re not familiar with Wordpress. In many cases, we find it difficult to help a customer with Adwords or SEO if they’re not on Wordpress so often our number 1 recommendation when starting a new engagement is to migrate the underlying CMS of a website to Wordpress.
Some of the specific reasons why we prefer Wordpress include:
A lot of people confuse Wordpress.com, the personal blogging platform with Wordpress.org, the CMS software, which often leads to misconceptions about Wordpress in a business environment. The two are certainly related but from a business perspective are completely different platforms. Here are some interesting facts about Wordpress you may not be aware of:
Many people are familiar with Wordpress in a blog layout but ultimately you can build a Wordpress website to look any way you like. Here are some examples of client Wordpress websites:
The infographic below was created by Yoast – visit http://yoast.com/wordpress-stats/ for more information on this infographic (click the infographic to enlarge)
Barrick Becca
I agree with you on all but “Securtiy”, there are some loopholes in Wordpress security and here I am referring to “Wordpress.Org” not Wordpress.com, Wordpress security has updated a lot but still they need to improve. So, that everyone can use Wordpress without the hassle of installing additional security plugins.
Brendan Tully
But thats like any CMS, when its installed the security is very average out of the box…I wouldn’t recommend any money site or important site be run on vanilla hosting. If its important enough that its making you money then its important enough to spend a little more on a managed wordpress hosting provider like WPEngine, link: http://bit.ly/1E7y0wi
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