In today’s world, most websites are built on WordPress. As per W3Techs, WordPress is used by 64.2% of all the websites whose content management system is known.
Here you can see the marketshare (As of June 2022) of WordPress compared to other CMS:
Now the question is genuine Why??? Why WordPress is so popular and why WordPress is the most used CMS?
So, my dear friend, here is the answer for the same:
Open Source / Freeware
WordPress is a freeware software that you can use. Freeware means software that you can use at zero cost and you don’t have to pay anything to use that.
WordPress is also open source which makes it more powerful and robust. Its developer community is very big. Most of its contributors are either students of all kinds of universities or professional developers. The Source code of WordPress is publicly available and if you want to contribute to the same, you can also do that. Isn’t that sound interesting? Well, it is. Although it is not that easy to work on the WordPress core, you can still contribute in different ways and we can discuss those ways later on.
Updates
In the digital world, it is very important to provide regular updates to your software or application. These updates may contain the security patches, functionality updates, new features, performance and so on.
WordPress is very serious about security and that is the main reason, it
Themes
In WordPress, the word “Theme” is referred to as the skin or template on the website. If you have any idea about HTML, then you must know that the page created for the HTML website is called Template. But, apart from the HTML template, the theme consists of so many
As I mentioned above that WordPress has a very huge community of contributors, so because of those contributors WordPress it self provide you with a very huge theme library. You can choose any theme directly from the WordPress theme library. The most important factor here is, all the themes that are available in the WordPress community are easy to install. Within one click, you can add a new theme.
WordPress also provide the official themes as well and the latest Official WordPress theme is Twenty Twenty. That by default comes with the latest version of the WordPress.
Plugins
By default, WordPress itself does not provide you with much functionality but it allows you to choose the functionality that you want in your website. So, the WordPress community will provide you with almost all kinds of plugins to fulfil almost all kinds of your needs.
WordPress has one of the biggest open-source plugin communities in the digital world. Here so many developers host their plugins that can be used FREE. Even you can write your own plugin and share it on the WordPress.org
Apart from Free plugins thousands of paid plugins are also available in the market that you can choose based on your own requirement.
Hosting
Compare to others, hosting a WordPress website is very cost-effective and easy to avail. This is also one of the reasons that WordPress is so popular. Almost all the hosting providers provide you with the option to host your WordPress website. If you don’t have much knowledge about hosting and managing the servers, there are so many hosting provides you with the “Managed WordPress Hosting” as well.
Managed WordPress hosting is basically a feature provided by the hosting company where they provide you with an easy to use user interface that you can use to install your WordPress website. You can monitor the statistics, take the backup or even they provide you with an easy interface to migrate your website in just a few clicks.
Cost of Development
Since WordPress is the most used CMS, the cost of the development is very low compared to the cost of the development in other programming languages or CMS. The main reason behind that is it consumes less time than the other CMS takes. The wide range of themes and plugins also helps you to reduce the cost.
Now you know Why WordPress is so popular? If you would like to use WordPress, Click to know How to install WordPress?
Sourabh Agrawal
An Interactive Web Engineer
I am a WordPress developer with the hands-on experience with front-end techniques as well as the backend coding. I love creating new websites, optimizing them for performance and front-end detailing. I am graduated from the University Institute of Technology, RGPV in 2011 with a Bachelor of Engineering in Information Technology.