Since its launch in 2003, WordPress has become the best-known content management system (CMS) worldwide. So far, more than 60 million websites have been designed with this CMS. Websites created with WordPress run on the cloud-hosted services, attracting 330 million visitors and more than 3.4 billion views every month. WordPress was designed by Automatic, an organization founded in 2005 by Matt Mullenweg.
WordPress VIP is the enterprise edition and is also a standard digital publishing tool for top media organizations. A standard, easy-to-use multimedia platform for website developers. This CMS edition is probably the best while users and developers have to pay for additional services such as backups, advertisements etc. The organization has been benefiting since its inception in 2005 with annual revenue doubling. The popularity of WordPress has grown over other CMS giants such as Joomla and Drupal in their usage. There are many more reasons why WordPress has become so popular by providing customers with an interactive blogging experience through many creative tools, plugins and other add-on features. A free open source platform and dynamic CMS, WordPress is formally based on PHP and MySQL. It has features of plugin architecture and template system.
WordPress has become the most popular and common choice for designing websites and blogs. It can also easily support multiple users and multi-blogging. Users can take advantage of thousands of plugins and a number of widgets to enhance functionality and experience. WordPress is integrated with a host of features such as link management, search engine friendliness, clean permalink, and support for article and post tagging. In a long-term assessment, the Automattic is looking for external partners to design their new applications and products in the near future. By organization, paid backup and security are limited factors that can make WordPress popular in a huge market segment for web applications and monetization of services. The WordPress CMS as a developer publishing tool is still in its infancy where it would take further efforts to make it world class and the most acceptable solution is to design it using a sustainable model. Automattic’s workplace is brilliant with 120 employees in twenty-six countries. People who work with WordPress are part of teams of 5-6 members and usually work from home or the office.
Currently, WordPress is a popular CMS, it had also won the Hall of Fame in 2010. Dubbed the 2010 Open Source Content Management System Hall of Fame Award, this award was presented by Packt Publishing (a UK publishing company that offers printing-on-demand), was donated to WordPress instead of Joomla and Drupal.
