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WordPress Now Powers 25% of the Web

Posted by samzenpus on from the taking-over dept.

An anonymous reader writes: According to data from W3Techs one in four websites is now powered by WordPress. According to the report: "WordPress is used by 58.7% of all the websites whose content management system we know. This is 25.0% of all websites.” Venturebeat reports: "Today is a big day for the free and open-source content management system (CMS). To be perfectly clear, the milestone figure doesn't represent a fraction of all websites that have a CMS: WordPress now powers 25 percent of the Web.

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  1. Re:In other news, the web is at least 24% unsecure by MyFirstNameIsPaul · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Is this a problem of WordPress, or just a popular CMS? If the admins aren't doing their job for WordPress, why would they start doing it for some other package?

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  2. Re:In other news, the web is at least 24% unsecure by thegarbz · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Wordpress is incredibly easy to set up. I know someone who's computer skills extend to word, excel and a tiny bit of Photoshop who has a domain and wordpress based blog.

    With that kind of low barrier to entry it stands to reason that people will have no idea about security. Some people will say the fault is with wordpress but the reality is wordpress can be setup securly and I'm willing to bet that if it were any other CMS we were talking about the results would be the same.