At present, in 2020, WordPress continues to be the most-liked application in the CMS market, and is hence, the leader among its fellow CMSs. While WordPress is used by 59.5% website owners, the second-most used CMS Joomla is used by 5.9%, as compared to Drupal (third) and Magento (fourth) with 4.9% and 2.8% respectively. In this time of online crimes like hacking, web bots, spywares, malwares, and so on, WordPress has proved to be one of the strongest platforms for making any kind of websites. Here are some of the most important reasons as to why this free software continues to top the list of all the content management systems available till date.
WordPress is a free content management system software, and moreover, it is an open source. Anyone is literally ‘free’ to download, install, and use the s/w to build and customize their website.No matter a website is a commercial one, or just a personal blog, WordPress never charges a single penny, nor ask for any kind of extra charge even if a website starts getting more and more traffic.
There are still a large number of people who are amateurs in computers and software, and are novice in web designing and programming. Many of them begin building websites without any knowledge of building or designing sites. For them, WordPress is the perfect platform for such people, allowing them to make their own business sites or blogs from thousands of freely available templates and themes.
This software is based on standard compliance high-quality code, producing semantic markup that makes top search engines like Google ‘love’ this CMS, and in turn, helping many sites developed through WordPress get rankings in these search engines.
This CMS software is not just limited to text content only. WordPress is available to users with a media uploader that handles multimedia files as well, including images, audio, and video. The software also supports embedding media files. This allows you to embed videos from YouTube, photos from Instagram, audios from Soundcloud, tweets from Twitter, and so on.
The software is also featured with an updates management system that lets users update their themes and plugins from within WordPress’ dashboard.WordPress gives frequent notifications as and when new versions are available to help users update their website accordingly with just a click of a button. Apart from this, one can very easily use the backup feature that allows creating backups, and then store all data on a remote location or cloud, thus protecting your data from any kind of accident or even hacking.
From the initial stage, the entire software was developed with security factors in mind. Thus, WordPress have always been considered to be a very secure platform for running a website.