Why Wordpress is better than your cms
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The document discusses the strengths and weaknesses of WordPress as a content management system (CMS). It highlights its user-friendly interface, vast community support, and extensive documentation while noting potential issues like plugin conflicts and update frequency. WordPress holds a significant market share, being used by 53.8% of websites compared to other CMS platforms.
![5 [small] things we don’t like much
• there are moments [not many] when it isn’t
appropriate
• if you use too many plugins, something
*will* go wrong
• there are lots of updates
• rogue / spam themes are horrid
• routing is a clusterfuck of doom
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![2. everyone uses it
[apart from those people insane enough to use Drupal]
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Why Wordpress is better than your cms
- 1. CAUTION: ZEALOT ALERT! Monday, 3 June 13
- 2. Why Wordpress shits on your CMS Monday, 3 June 13
- 3. 5 [small] things we don’t like much • there are moments [not many] when it isn’t appropriate • if you use too many plugins, something *will* go wrong • there are lots of updates • rogue / spam themes are horrid • routing is a clusterfuck of doom Monday, 3 June 13
- 4. Why it rocks Monday, 3 June 13
- 5. 1. content management systems are for normal people, not geeks Monday, 3 June 13
- 6. blindingly obvious interface Monday, 3 June 13
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- 11. 2. everyone uses it [apart from those people insane enough to use Drupal] Monday, 3 June 13
- 12. size of community • 72. 4 million websites use Wordpress • at end 2011, 20-25% of all new websites were built using Wordpress • 48% of the top 100 blogs use Wordpress Monday, 3 June 13
- 13. • average rate of a Wordpress job is $50 (£32) per hour • oDesk has an average of 6,725 Wordpress jobs each month • Wordpress is the 5th most requested skill size of community #2 Monday, 3 June 13
- 14. • 19,000 plugins available • (together, these have been downloaded more than 285 million times) size of community #2 Monday, 3 June 13
- 15. 3. “It’s just a blog”. WRONG. Monday, 3 June 13
- 16. Custom post types Monday, 3 June 13
- 17. Advanced custom fields... Monday, 3 June 13
- 18. per-template fields... Monday, 3 June 13
- 19. ..repeaters, flexible content.. Monday, 3 June 13
- 20. 4. Outstanding documentation Monday, 3 June 13
- 21. Documentation • Codex is blinding, and community powered • Thousands of tutorials given size of the supporting developer network • Very quick response to bug reports Monday, 3 June 13
- 22. 5. Insanely brilliant framework Monday, 3 June 13
- 23. a closing thought wordpress: 53.8% joomla: 9.2% drupal: 6.7% others: 30.3% Monday, 3 June 13
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