I had an interesting conversation the other day about using WordPress as a CMS system for a website platform. In this conversation, there were many issues cited about the ‘problems with WordPress’ in a professional website environment. I would like to offer my insight and how to make WordPress work for you.
WordPress started in 2003 with a single bit of code to enhance the typography of everyday writing and with fewer users than you can count on your fingers and toes. Since then it has grown to be the largest self-hosted blogging tool in the world, used on millions of sites and seen by tens of millions of people every day.
As WordPress has been in development for the past 7 years it is going to have its share of obvious problems in the course of its history. Some of the issues can also stem from WordPress hosted blogs and websites and not self-hosted ones. However, when it comes to security, more important than the website software is where you are hosting your site. As with any website environment, you are going to have questions about uptime, security and load time. Your hosting environment is what truly affects security. WordPress is constantly working on improving its software and making upgrades in reliability and security. Just as, hopefully, every content management software is doing.
However, I don’t ask you to take my word for how good this software is for websites. Instead, I recommend you take the word of Fortune 500 companies like Fischer Price, Pepsi, Best Buy & Ford that have put their trust in WordPress. You can see them and other major corporations using WordPress as featured on 4 pages of this website: http://wordpress.org/showcase/tag/fortune-500/ .
In addition I would like to offer this case study on using WordPress in a large corporation environment from April 2009. Excerpt:
“I took a look at several open-source content managements systems – Plone, Drupal, Joomla – and found them to be very powerful, but with a somewhat steep learning curve, and probably overkill for what I needed. I didn’t want to spend weeks just getting up to speed with a system, when I knew, in the back of my mind that there was one tool out there – one dead easy to use, robust, flexible, jack-of-all-trades, all-around awesome tool that could fulfill about 80% of functionality I was looking for. I’m talking, of course, about WordPress.”
You can read the rest of this case study here: http://dangreenblatt.com/blog/2009/04/03/case-study-wordpress/
WordPress has proven itself to be reliable, sturdy, secure, robust and able to handle almost any applications requested of it. And most importantly, LyricalBiz offers WordPress because it is the easiest content management system there is to learn. Training takes about an hour. With the other CMS systems, it can take weeks to get comfortable using them.
If you have any further comments you would like to share, please feel free to do so. We welcome them!
