I still remember when I first began looking into a blogging CMS.
After researching WordPress, Joomla and Drupal, I decided to go with WordPress — I’m glad I did!
I didn’t do it because they were becoming the clear leader in the world wide web marketshare, but because it really is a great platform to build a website.
If you’re thinking about building a website your self, church or business, I highly recommend diving into WordPress. Take a look at these numbers!
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How do you see WordPress’ marketshare changing in the future?
More, less, the same?
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I’m glad that I too made the right decision on working with WordPress as my CMS of choice for building sites. I will have to give Michael some credit to swaying me in that direction too.
These are impressive numbers. Plus WordPress” is such a rich name you can’t help but pick them.
What was your second choice as a platform after wordpress?
If I would ever dig into another platform, it would probably be Drupal.
I’m new to this & could use some help interpreting the graphic. Does any part of it isolate blogs from full-fledged websites? I’m curious if the domination is because it’s the CMS-of-choice for bloggers, or if it’s dominant on full-fledged websites as well.
Thanks very much.
This includes all websites.
Just like market share doesn’t illustrate the value of the iPhone, or BMW’s, neither does it define WP’s value.
For sites that I need to dash off that have a great template, and a LOW degree of customization, WP’s great (palau.tv runs Live Theme, and GospelMovements.org is a heavily modded Obox WP site). I tried to love it…
For sites where I need sophisticated data models and complete control, I vastly prefer Expression Engine. I also leverage either Zurb’s Foundation or Twitter’s Bootstrap as front-end starting points.
Perhaps if I was a coder with a strong PHP background – and not a designer who only knows a bit – I wouldn’t mind hacking WP so much. As it is, I feel like to get the front- and back-end control I need, I’d have to make my own themes. Way too much work. I got so irritated trying to deal with custom fields in WP that I just moved to the country where creating custom fields (and sophisticated fieldtypes like Matrix and Playa) is as easy as breathing.
I know you CM guys are big WP fans! I’m not a hater but I just don’t love WP unless it’s for a basic job. I am actually considering moving my photo portfolio site to WP because I don’t want to deal with all the hand-coding an EECMS site requires.
Also: http://symphony-cms.com/ has caught my eye. I really like their approach for data modeling (except for XSLT, which looks completely alien).
Market share is interesting, but not the only metric of usefulness.
I’ve heard wonderful things about Expression Engine and Symphony. If you need a heavy CMS, I totally agree with you.
Great infographic.
And am having a lot of luck and fun using WordPress for myself and my clients.
Thanks for the graphic. While there are still many pro’s to hand coding/building a site. The ease of WordPress is great.And the seo results are pretty wonderful.
regards.
pd.