WordPress VS the world

In this series, we pit WordPress (and our tech stack) head-to-head with other CMS platforms (and theirs) for science, glory, and to maintain our fragile egos.
Gaming consoles, football teams, the way you put toilet roll on its holder… We’ve all got preferences, and we’ll often back them with reasoning we wouldn’t usually approve of. (Bog roll goes sheet to the back, because…. Reasons) So this blog post is written in full knowledge of our bias (I mean… TL;DR: It’s WordPress, all day, every day) and in an earnest effort to be as fair as possible. (It’s still gonna be WordPress)In our early days (over a decade ago), we had to make decisions on which technology stack we’d pool our resources into. These decisions weren’t made lightly, but they were also made without the luxury of hindsight. It’s safe to say; we fucked up a few times.

We learned, and we learned again. We adapted our stacks, and broke down everything we knew more times than we could count. From raw HTML, to CMS platforms like Joomla, Drupal, and WordPress, we tested and learned to love them all. But it became quite clear that to spread precious brain cells out so thinly across such a broad spectrum of tools that did exactly the same thing, wasn’t serving us well, and it wasn’t serving our clients well, either.We had to choose one.In case it wasn’t already very apparent; we chose WordPress. Even at the time, WordPress sites accounted for more than 20% of the world’s active websites, it was (and is) an open source platform with 100,000s of people working on enriching it, and the community is incredibly knowledgeable, and used to figuring out problems on their own.Today; over 40% of websites on the entire internet are built with WordPress. We reckon we chose right, even if we do say so ourselves.That said; to continue serving our clients in the best way possible, we make it a regular practice to try new tools, and new ways of thinking. In this series, we take semi-deep dives into current offerings, and pit the mighty WordPress (and our tech stack) against the competition. Either WordPress is still the Ultimate CMS, or we learn there’s something better out there. In both cases, you (our client) win. We’re here to make sure you get the very best technologies to help your business grow.So; without further ado:(did we mention and bold WordPress too many times?)WordPress.