WordPress The Most Growing CMS Platform

Muhammad Rehman
3 min readApr 3, 2021

There are many web programming languages that we can use to build a website or web modules. And they are getting improve over time. This could be hard to say that only some particular languages are good for web development because each one has its own value, beauty, and power that makes it different from others.

Similarly, there are too many CMS or Content Management System is available for free or paid on the internet that builds on different languages. If we talk on Php so there are many CMS Like Magento, Drupal, Joomla, Prestashop, Shopify, WordPress, and others. And they are the most popular and running CMS available on the internet and a normal user can easily build a website by using them without knowing any codebase or technical skills.

What is CMS or Content Management System?

A system that has the ability to create, modify, remove and publish the content is called CMS or Content Management System.

It also includes text and formatting features, the ability to upload videos, photos, audio, maps, document file or even your own code.

It also supports multiple users and user roles and each one has different privileges.

Which CMS Should I Select?

Well, it’s up to you as described above each CMS or language has its own value and demand. But if we look at the statistics the WordPress is growing much faster than others.

WordPress has launched its first version on May 27, 2003. Initially, it’s just a blogging tool, and later on, it’s become a complete website development tool. And it covers over 40% of the entire web industry.

WordPress is free and open source and it currently has 58,000+ plugins and 8000+ themes for free and many plugins and themes are paid which are selling by different companies and developers on different platforms and that number is growing constantly.

The Beauty of WordPress

The WordPress installation and configuration are so easy. Even a non-technical person can easily setup WordPress.

Installation of themes and plugins is very easy too and it has a built-in drag and drop page builder or in WordPress, you can say Gutenberg Block Components so you don’t need to open and edit any file or add any custom HTML, CSS code to make beautiful and good looking web pages.

There are more than 65 Blocks by default in WordPress and you can install other blocks as well. So with the help of these awesome blocks components, you can create amazing eye-catching web pages just you need to drag and drop the required blocks according to your need.

WordPress is Developer Friendly

WordPress is developer-friendly as well. The files and database structure are so clean and simple to understand. Common JS libraries are already installed in WordPress so you don’t need to find those libraries and put them into your website folder to use it, you can simply call that library with their name.

WordPress allows you to deep customization you can add or change any default behavior of WordPress even in the plugins and themes which you are using.

The core functions of WordPress are so flexible and it gives you the power to customize anything.

WordPress is Secure

We can confidently say that your website will be secure on WordPress. If you look at the statistics so WordPress is on the top of the list in the best CMS system. if this is insecure so the number is not as it is currently.

There are many dedicated WordPress hosting that provides amazing security for WordPress websites.

And there are many top-rated security plugins are available in the WordPress market that protects your website from malware and being hacked.

Conclusion

WordPress is more powerful than other CMS systems. The community of WordPress is much vast.

There are a lot of plugins/Addons and themes as compare to any other CMS. The number of WordPress developers and jobs is pretty much higher than others.

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Muhammad Rehman

WordPress Developer & Consultant. Love to do programming ❤️