Should You Still Use WordPress?

The past year was quite rich within WordPress ecosystemmarked by discussions and disputes that have encouraged some to question the long -term sustainability of the platform and consider Research by alternative solutions.

However, when you dive deeper into these doubts, they fade compared to the permanent power of WordPress as a product and its incomparable versatility in the CMS space.

The market share was held

The first version of WordPress was published on May 27, 2003. Its unique architecture, combined with open code, has experienced a rise in popularity – now dominates (since December 2024) 43.7% CMS market share.

This growth was also stable despite the appearance of other CMS, including ShopifyWho,, Wix and Squarespace. But neither of them is an open code.

Not “just another” CMS

A unique WordPress architecture that allows an addition and the enlargeability of the themeIn combination with the power of open code, it means that it can extend far beyond the blogg platform as originally.

This means that topics can be made for end users without necessarily having to understand HTML or CSS and the supplements made by third parties who could expand and scallic a basic platform in unlimited ways.

Over the years, I have built so much with WordPress, including forums, advertisements, educational and educational portals, websites for e-commerce, communities, mechanisms for comparison and scailed topics.

Our clients were ranging from people who perform small side crowds and trigger startups to hundreds of installations on a custom-made website scaling server for different global regions and the construction of adapted API using WordPress for scanning activities.

No other CMS provides this flexibility – with all the alternatives that do so only with large costs and technical debt.

Expandability [Mostly] No limit

Although I participated in the construction of many things with WordPress, the concept third -party supplements He opened the path of reliable expandability within CMS.

The appearance of free and premium supplements in the WordPress ecosystem created its own niche, with more 59,000 free supplements are available Within the official directory – and this does not include thousands of supplements available outside the Repo.

When I discovered WordPress in 2009, I realized that it was not just a blog platform-and more importantly, it was the most backet to SEO’s best standards. I have published my first of the numerous supplements in October 2010.

In 2013, I faced an agency with the development of WordPress as one of the fundamental offers in which we worked on thousands of WordPress sites. Whenever we received a query or suggested something to build, WordPress was always CMS that provided the best solution.

It is also so easy to start with WordPress and advise everyone who wants to expand their knowledge to do so through experimenting (I talked about it on Brightthseo a couple of months ago)

A truly passionate community

Another reason I loved WordPress was when I found out that huge community support helped CMS progress.

As well as SEO COMMUNITYThe WordPress Community is extremely interesting and provides support, not only to help solve the problem and help the development of CMS as a whole, but there is also a lot of support for the professional and personal development of people.

Far from the extensive resources that WordPress provides through its documentation and forums, WordPress Community progresses throughout the year through its Wordcamp gatherings around the world and participates in other communities including WordPress chat and Poststatus. There are also a number of podcast series you can follow, including Make WooWho,, Talk about WP productand WP buildings.

This community is extremely supportive and resistant to changes, which in turn helps develop the core of WordPress, which was crucial in the design of the future of the creation, production and improvement of websites.

The community also reciprocates in ways that I have not seen in other verticals.

You own your website and data

You would think this was obvious, but not. Remember, WordPress is an open code. Not only does this mean that the basic product is completely free and that the community supports it, as mentioned above, it is your property.

Let us now compare this to Shopify, Wix and Squarespace – These other CMS platforms have your site!

Although people can believe that there are inherent risks with WordPress, I would ask you what would happen to your website yes, for example, Shopify closed the job tomorrow.

The answer is simple – your page would stop existing. Then what? If WordPress stopped developing from today, you would still be in the same position and you would still have your website, content and information – all that. What do other CMS offer?

As another layer of freedom and risk relief, choosing the use of WordPress as CMS is also independent of where you choose to host it.

If for any reason you want migrate your website from one host to another You have the freedom to do this, until the closed code platforms have only the website you create with them, but also the server on which it is located.

Do they represent a recent WP ‘disagreement’ risk for WordPress?

TLDR – no. The situation does not affect WordPress functionality as CMS. WordPress remains a stable, reliable and widely used platform, without indication that its long -term sustainability is threatened. The CMS itself is not affected and continues to progress. If you want to read more about current discussions and disagreements affecting the WP leadership, you can read articles such as this and this to get more insights.

Other options?

Are you still skeptical of WordPress? Ok, what are your other options?

While others CMS platform It may be a good alternative to the “standard information website” or website that has no requirement to adapt to the usual functionality outside the frame (which eventually happens for any website that starts to scaldy in any way), You have to make very informed decisions about whether it really pays off – and what is a problem you believe you are solving it.

Some questions I would ask myself:

• Is CMS open code? If not, what do I own?
• Is there a strong form of community and support?
• Does the third parties do well and the APIs you plan to use?
• Can you scalge the page in the desired way?
• Can you truly control the front exit?
• Does the best practice of SEO adhere to?

If any of the above answers are “no”, you need to understand the risks of these problems before considering any migration, as you might find that the risks of alternatives outweigh everything that WordPress would do.

A few months ago, I decided to explore a few CMS open code to see if another platform could compete with WordPress and its capabilities. Not surprising, nothing was close.

Tl;

WordPress is there to stay and still is CMS that I would advise in 99% of cases.

He is sure, supported, robust, ready for the future and an open code.

While other CMS platforms can offer some solutions for less or easier pages, I have yet to be really convinced that they are a significant risk for their future or their role in the future websites.

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