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WordPress Now Powers Over One-Third of the Top 10 Million Sites on the Web (wordpress.org)
WordPress now powers over 1/3rd of the top 10 million sites on the web, according to W3Techs. From a blog post: Our market share has been growing steadily over the last few years, going from 29.9% just one year ago to 33.4% now. We are, of course, quite proud of these numbers! The path here has been very exciting. In 2005, we were celebrating 50,000 downloads. Six years later, in January 2011, WordPress was powering 13.1% of websites. And now, early in 2019, we are powering 33.4% of sites. Our latest release has already been downloaded close to 14 million times, and it was only released on the 21st of February.
One 5-second page load at a time.
Still better then what the bosses Nephew who knows HTML can generate.
If something is so important that you feel the need to post it on the internet... It probably isn't that important.
How anyone can run Wordpress and sleep at night is beyond my ability to comprehend. Must either be really brave or really really really stupid.
I do WordPress development and Consulting for a living. Quite a good living. This piece of software is utterly amazing. Built by people who obviously didn't have the faintest idea about how to build a proper web application it's become the perpetual source of things to fix and work to do.
Absolutely amazing.
Just this week a huge installation running WP and WooCommerce, bloated by idiots who added 40+ plugins to this mission critical (!!) setup finally exploded into the face of my employer who wouldn't listen for over a year I've been warning him.
You can do amazing stuff with WordPress, but only if you know how to work around it's pitfalls and do most of the things not using WordPress utilities or the abysmally broken WP DB model. I will continue to do so because there's simply no end to jobs right now but you need good humor to deal with the daily crazy.
Truly amazing.
We suffer more in our imagination than in reality. - Seneca
Wordpress may be crap. And it may have a history littered with security problems.
.. . um . . . some reason or other.
But it makes up for it by having LOTS of users! You can't argue with success. The more sites that use Wordpress, the less security vulnerabilities will matter. Because .
I'll see your senator, and I'll raise you two judges.
The main point, is most websites want to be done on the CHEAP. Hiring skilled people to actually make a solid web site, even for just a public bill board, contact list, and open positions page, can cost a lot of money to be done right. Too much for most companies, so they will find a way to do it for cheap. Wordpress has name recognition, and most site can be made to look presentable without those expensive people who know what they are doing.
If something is so important that you feel the need to post it on the internet... It probably isn't that important.
Have they made it work with sqlite yet?
If not, it's dead to me.
Also... that whole blogging and user signup thing. Who needs that sort of baggage for a basic website? It could run a whole lot faster/better without it.
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A turd responsible for over 1/3rd if the top sites... brilliant.
I wanted to make a blog at some point and was told that Wordpress is the most popular thing out there by far, so it would be easy to support, 1-click installed by my host etc. I didn't give it another thought, I mean, how bad could it be?
So it took me a while to realize just how bad and how slow it is exactly. It was clearly developed by people who had no idea about... well anything, really. Mindboggling how it caught on so much.
Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent. Polar Scope Align for iOS
Most people use three year old Android phones filled with carrier bloatware as well. Just because it's popular, doesn't mean that it's good.
The sad part for the slowly rotting community of mostly non-OOP Drupal experts/coders/architects is that Backdrop CMS - a fork of Drupal 7 from around 5-6 years ago - was the right path forward for them. The fork's creators have simplified Drupal back to where it was when it was gaining in popularity (Drupal 5-6 era) and was simpler to work with, all while continuing to add new features and keep its core strengths that made it a better CMS tool to use than Wordpress for all but the simplest of blog sites.
Backdrop CMS was supposed to take Drupal's old place in the small-to-medium website market, while the current OOP-based Drupal v8+ moved onto enterprise-level clients. That hasn't happened, however, because it gets zero marketing from the remaining stalwards in the Drupal community that have become too invested in the Drupal brand to see the writing on the wall:
(1) OOP-based Drupal (v8+) will never be accepted as a real option for small-to-medium websites when WordPress is cheaper and faster in most cases.
(2) Despite its change to OOP, Drupal 8+ talent is still too hard to find to warrant an enterprise-level investment - espeically when other more well-known framework options (with big money behind them) are out there.
(3) Unless you work for Acquia or have some other enterprise-level client(s) with already deep Drupal roots, the Drupal job market is winding down fast - and when everyone's transitioned out of Drupal 5-7, it's over. Adapt or die.
Backdrop will hopefully not serve as another reminder that the winners in free markets are usually the products with the best marketing and lowest total cost of ownership (the "good enough" choice) - not the one with the best reliability, build quality, or number of features.