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WordPress now powers 30% of web sites, regardless of whether they use a content management system (CMS) or not. This is a 5% increase over the last few years.
The Next Web summarizes:
That's according to W3Techs, a service run by Austrian consulting firm Q-Success that surveys the top 10 million sites ranked on Alexa. Its numbers are updated daily, and today it sees WordPress accounting for 60 percent of the CMS market.
WordPress has been in the lead for a good while now, with rival systems like Joomla, Drupal, Magento, Shopify, Google's Blogger, and Squarespace trailing by a huge margin (Joomla takes the #2 spot with 3 percent of sites). Of course, it's worth noting that 50 percent of all sites are either built from scratch or utilize CMSes presently not monitored by W3Techs.
So WordPress has a wide lead over similar tools like Joomla, Drupal, and several others. WordPress started about fourteen years ago back in 2003 and is built from PHP. It would have been interesting to see a break down of the mixed 50% in regards to how much has returned to static pages.
Sources : WordPress now powers 30% of websites VentureBeat
30% of all sites now run on WordPress The Next Web
(Score: 4, Interesting) by bzipitidoo on Tuesday March 06 2018, @02:22AM (2 children)
Maybe basic WordPress is okay. I wouldn't know. But the one time I tried to admin it, the owners had thrown on a "free" skin that couldn't be worked with, and had little documentation explaining what the heck they'd done.
If you wanted to be able to make some changes just above the basics, like changing fonts or enlarging some text, it was a total pain to figure out how, and often wasn't possible. Sure, you could change the content on a basic level, like modify the text of a web page or pictures, through their web interface. But for the rest, no. Had several layers of indirection, with unused original copies of the pages littering the directory tree. Change what seems to be the correct page, and nothing would happen. After reading what little there was in the way of docs, you'd find the new location, change that, and still nothing would happen. Then you'd discover that the setting had been moved to another CSS file, in which the settings had all been made irrelevant by a link to yet another CSS file that would overwrite every setting in the first one. And you couldn't access it through the crappy web interface they allowed for "admin lite" work.
I'm sure all that was deliberate, to push you into paying to upgrade from their free package to the premium one, in which you could monkey with the fonts and anything else you wished. So I was in the embarrassing position of having to tell the owners that I couldn't help with their web site.
(Score: 2) by Magic Oddball on Tuesday March 06 2018, @05:56AM (1 child)
That pretty much matches my experience trying to customize a basic WordPress blog a few years ago. Though to be fair, my attempt with Drupal didn't go much more smoothly.
The only CMS that I've ever really felt comfortable working with was the old free versions of Movable Type. It was obviously very primitive, but that meant that it was also easy to make it do things that I'm pretty sure its creators didn't have in mind, like customizing the template so it'd produce static HTML instead of CSS.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday March 06 2018, @11:07AM
I was comfortable with wolf cms, it seems I will switch to web2py though. I suggest exploring micro frameworks in general.