#WordPress CMS Platform

Today, we are going to talk about one of the most popular Open Source CMS “WordPress” based on PHP and MySQL. It powers 30% of the internet and probably the easiest, yet power tool for Website, blogging and content management system in existence today. Amazing, isn’t it!!
There are numbers of CMS available(Drupal, Joomla, Magento, Umbraco, Django etc), which has their own user base and huge community. However, WordPress seems to be leading the race, because it provides ease and range of opportunities for setting up any sort of Website that could be dynamic, or static, big corporate website, E-commerce, School/Educational websites, personal blogs or even a single page portfolio, You name it. (https://wordpress.org/)

Advantage - Benefits of WordPress

Since, WordPress CMS is a user-friendly platform for building, managing, hosting your website and content. You can make any kind of website with ease, without worrying about HTML, CSS and writing custom script for that matter.

✔ The development on WordPress is easy and one can see real-time changes as      they apply changes on their website.

✔ It comes with pre installed plugin, almost over 45,000 and template function.

✔ User-friendly and best for beginners, and experts too.

✔ WordPress is SEO friendly and offers lots of customization options of a     theme.

Who Uses WordPress ?

This could be an endless explanation. However, we would keep it short and simple as we have already open the front door to the castle. Let’s go through few big names. Which, of course, are “WordPress” users. This would automatically answer the question about, who uses WordPress?

✔ BBC America

✔ Sony Music

✔ MTV News

✔ The New Yorker

✔ Sweden’s Official Website

✔ Microsoft News Center

✔ Usain Bolt

Disadvantages

WordPress, despite being so advanced and popular CMS, it has its own share of disadvantages too. When, it comes to security aspect and it’s absolutely necessary as your website and critical resources are available on public platform. You simply can’t let everything open and manipulated, or misused. Yes, we are talking about Website/resources hacking.

Because of WordPress popularity, it’s a Hot-Cake for hackers and spammers. Unlike Drupal, WordPress top plugins are also more vulnerable as they aren’t well tested like in the case of Drupal, where every module is revised and reviewed before adding to Drupal Core. Moreover, please don’t misunderstand the term “Open-Source” here as you have to pay for hosting your website and even making a personalized Theme, apart from limited Themes.

Closing Thoughts

Like we always say, everyone claims to be the best and it applies to CMS tools as well. However, if we have to select one, we will go for WordPress. Not, because of its popular and almost rule the internet, but for its ease and flexibility for website/blog development and that’s what a CMS like “WordPress” is meant for, right?

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