CHAPTER 32. WORDPRESS AND CMS 278
The most commonly used CMS in the world isWordPress. It has about
55% of the CMS market in 2011, and 60% in 2015. Second place seems to
beJoomla, and third place seems to beDrupal.
You can Google search “market share cms” for current information.
http://w3techs.com/technologies/history_overview/content_management
Because CMS is so useful as a way to get a website up and running, we will
spend some time looking into it.
Specifically, in Appendix 32.2 (page 278) we will look into the leading CMS,
WordPress.
Then we will return to looking at the fundamentals that underlie every CMS
and the many other websites that exist: HTML, CSS, and JavaScript.
Exam Question 386(p.360): What does CMS stand for?
Required Answer:content management system
32.2 WordPress
About 1/3 of the top million websites (by traffic count in 2011) use a CMS.
The top CMS in the world is WordPress. It has about 55% of the CMS
market (in 2011). They are “proudly powered by WordPress.”
http://wordpress.org/is their homepage.
WordPress was invented to, well, press words. Think of it as a printing press
for the web. It is great for sharing news and blogging. Those are its roots.
But it has grown beyond that.
So, expect great blogging capabilities, and then other things too.
32.2.1 What is a Blog?
I know this probably sounds like a stupid question, but let’s be fair. People
may not know.