

I’m guessing they just wanted a quick and easy way to make a functional and beautiful website, which is kind of the whole idea of WordPress.

Heck you don’t need them for simple websites, which is what WordPress is aiming at… WordPress has either no, or severely limited:Īnd thats ok, because you don’t need those for blogging. WordPress excels at a number of things, and it’s done brilliantly to capture that market (blogging, and small & simple websites), but the idea that because it’s had more installs than Joomla and Drupal (which are going after a different market) that it’s suddenly the “best in breed within the content management space” is ridiculous bro. Respectfully Jeff, thats not even close to true. ’s current spot of being the best in breed within the content management space Be right back, I’m going to go ask my magic 8 ball.

But, what I find even more interesting is if whether or not the things that made WordPress successful in the past will continue to stick around so that the platform is equally or more successful in the future. The past 7-8 years is very interesting to look back upon to figure out how WordPress ended up in it’s current spot of being the best in breed within the content management space. The comments in the article contain a couple of those reasons while the others are spread amongst the various comment and forum threads on the web. There is an entire laundry list of reasons of why WordPress is at the top of the mountain right now, the success of the platform can not be traced back to one thing. One things for sure, it certainly paid off for WordPress to be focused on making the democratization of content publishing as easy as possible first, then making WordPress incredibly extensible later. Interesting case study using a number of cool data points that shows how WordPress has won the crown amongst Joomla and Drupal for being the most widely used CMS in the world.
