Why WordPress?
WordPress is a Content Management System (CMS) that has proven it’s quality by being the most popular and used CMS around the world. Look at this data (taken from https://hostingtribunal.com/blog/wordpress-statistics/):
- WordPress powers 34% of the internet in 2019, a 4% rise from the previous year.
- If you count only the CMS-built sites, then about 60% of them are WordPress
- Over 400 million people visit WordPress sites each month
- In 2016, nearly 118 billion words were published on WordPress
- But WordPress is not only for blogging – nearly 28% of all e-commerce goes through WooCommerce
- 281 new WooCommerce shops appear on average every day
- 661 WordPress sites also pop up daily
- WordPress.org offers over 50,000 plugins and over 3,500 GPL-licensed themes
- In 2018, the non-English WordPress downloads were more than the English ones
No doubt, WordPress is a platform, built by people for people, that provides proven technologies while still leaving you in control of customizations where you need it. There is no depenedency on a provider that dictates features on you based on their profit strategy.
Other true benefits of WordPress are:
- comes with a user and role management
- a vast variety of themes
- a vast variety of plugins to add individual features
- a large user and developer community
- all code is open source allowing to add or change custom features