Why Wordpress?
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WordPress has become a leading CMS due to its clear focus on bloggers and e-commerce, ease of use for non-techies, and its strong blogging community. It is noted for being user-friendly, allowing operation without prior manual reading, and has a significant presence online, being the 18th most visited website worldwide. With over 355,000 bloggers and a notable percentage of its blogs ranking in the top million websites, WordPress's strengths are pivotal in its success.
Why Wordpress?
- 1. Why WordPress? Friday, June 20, 2014.
- 2. Background
- 3. Why WordPress overcome another CMS • Focus: • A clear target audience (bloggers and e-commerce) • Developers were able to build a successful business at WordPress.com pretty much from day one. • By contrast, several CMS; such as, Drupal and Joomla tried to be “everything a geek might need”. As it is commonly known, having clearly defined uses is more effective than working in the abstract. • Ease of Use: • WordPress is the easiest CMS for a non-techie to install and set up, and the easiest to use out of the gate • Mark stated that most people could operate WordPress without reading manual in advance (Mark, 2011).
- 4. Why WordPress overcome another CMS (cont) • The Blogging Factor: • The blog factor is a great strength that helped to establish WordPress as a CMS • Also, it is supported by the fact that: • The 18th most visited website in the world. • Claimed to have “355,355 bloggers.” • On WordPress.com’s home page, three out of eleven of the blogs run on their own domains, • One out of eleven (or 9%) is in the top 1 million websites, according to Alexia. • Approximately, 9% of all WordPress.com blogs (or 34,000 blogs) are in the top 1 million websites.