WordPress (US)

• WordPress is a free and open-source content management system and the most widely used CMS in the world

• Launched in 2003 as a blogging tool, WordPress is now also commonly used in the enterprise

• Compare to: Drupal, Joomla, TYPO3, Umbraco and other open source content management systems, but due to the wide adoption WordPress is also frequently compared with enterprise solutions like Adobe, Optimizely and Sitecore.

About WordPress

In the beginning, WordPress was mainly used to create blogs. Fast-forward to today, the software has improved, and you can create any type of website you want.

As of May 2021, WordPress is used by 64.8% of all the websites whose content management system is known, and 41.4% of the top 10 million websites according to a W3Techs Survey.

Selected blog posts on WordPress

• The Days of 'The Best CMS' are Over (April 2023)

• HE usually does not need proprietary website platforms (February 2023)

• Headless CMS in 2023 (January 2023)

• How Pernod Ricard built a digital platform to quickly create new websites (2021)

• What can we learn from the W3C CMS selection process (2020)

• Gutenberg Accessibility Costs WordPress the W3C Work (2020)

• The next phase of CMS: Our most innovative solutions will come from integration (2018)

• WordPress: The most used CMS in the world and still not good enough? (2013)

• A breakthrough for open source CMS? (2009)

Connect with WordPress

• We’ve had several participants from the WordPress community join our CMS Expert group meetings, notably WordPress experts from 10up and Human Made.

• For more, see wordpress.org