WordPress Pros and Cons
Keith Sayer
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Keith Sayer
Communications Program Director, University of Notre Dame's Nanovic Institute for European Studies | President-Elect, American Marketing Association Michiana | Marketing/Communications Leader and Strategist
WordPress is, by far, the most popular CMS in the world.
According to W3Techs, 43% (at the time of writing) of the top 10 million sites by traffic use WordPress. That’s 4.3 million sites—not counting the gargantuan number of low-traffic sites that use it.
Pros of WordPress
Here are some of the top reasons why you might choose WordPress, as we see them.
- It is well-supported.
- It updates regularly
- It has a massive library of free and paid plugins to handle any need.
- The platform itself is free.
- A lot of people in the workforce know how to use WordPress.
- Don't like the editor? Just download another one (see the full post link below for a few examples).
- So. Many. Themes. WordPress has a large number of both free and paid themes to get you close to what you want to see from the start.
While the WordPress software is free, many of the plugins you will need are paid. Most of these have moved to a subscription model. Thus, you could have a large annual subscription budget if you have a wide range of needs.
Cons of WordPress
- Storage is a bit unorganized.
- WordPress is easy to learn but not the easiest.
- It is difficult to keep all plugins and the platform in sync with updates.
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