WordPress Now Powers 30% of Websites (venturebeat.com)

WordPress now powers 30 percent of the web, according to data from web technology survey firm W3Techs. From a report: This represents a 5 percentage point increase in nearly two and a half years, after WordPress hit the 25 percent mark in November 2015. It's worth noting here that this figure relates to the entire Web, regardless of whether a website uses a content management system (CMS) or not. If we're looking at market share, WordPress actually claims 60.2 percent, up from 58.7 percent in November 2015. By comparison, its nearest CMS rival, Joomla, has seen its usage jump from 2.8 percent to 3.1 percent, while Drupal is up from 2.1 percent to 2.2 percent.

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Wrong. (Disclaimer: I do LAMP & WP for a livin

[Qbertino]

IMHO, WordPress is the Windows of the CMS world. It is a frighteningly poor security record and it is just bloated and not admin friendly at all.

I hate to break the news to you, but WordPresses Security Track record is actually pretty good, despite being an unbelievable hodgepodge of spagetticode (initially) built by amateurs. It powers north of 130 million websites and the last critical security breach managed to infect 8000 websites before it was fixed and contained. That is less than 0.002 percent of the live installbase. I don't know any Java system with that could stand such an exposure with so little impact. WP is being worked on day in and day out by a massive army of hobby and professional developers and that makes security breaches way less a problem than with some obscure system that theoretically is more secure but falls flat on it's face when a critical breach takes 10 days or more to fix, let alone to find.

By now most hosters and CDN services have atuned their offerings to the behemoth that is WordPress and can smell attacks on WP from miles away and prevent them before they even happen. In this regard WP actually has an advantage, as it is a popular target and this quickly exposes malicious IP adresses and breach-vectors.

As for being admin friendly: This is where WP shines, at least in the Dashboard. No other system is so easyly adopted by n00bs than WordPress. Any dimwit can operate an WP installation within 5 minutes of catching the first glimpse of it. Coding an extension or a template for WP is a walk in the park compared to anything else out there - which is a) why it's so damn popular and b) there is so many plugins that are so unbelievably shoddyly developed it would blow your mind if you looked at the code. And yet any n00b can find a specific task that need to be adressed, whip up some PHP and sell it as a plugin and make some money on the side. Yet another reason it's so popular.

Long story short: If you'd look at WP code alone you'd bet your right arm that this mess has no chance in hell of becoming the worlds leading web cms. But look at the big picture and it's easy to understand why it rules these days. That's also because everything else out there in the PHP space falls way short in comparsion and that sure as hell also goes for this dead-in-the-water Ghost Blog thingie built on top of node that is still a toddler that is wet behind the ears compared to LAMP.

My 2 cents.