WordPress
It has been a while now since I have been asking myself why is WordPress being taken as underdog among the world of Open source CMS system, because for me this platform wasn’t just a blogging tool, but a whole package capable of doing everything when it comes to CMS issues. Now finally here is the recognition. WordPress one of the best open source CMS around, has just named The best Overall Open Source CMS in 2009 Open Source CMS Awards.
I was very excited last week to learn that WordPress has been awarded the Overall Best Open Source CMS Award in the 2009 Open Source CMS Awards. This is a landmark for us, as it is the first time we’ve won this award, and it marks a shift in the public perception of WordPress, from blog software to full-featured CMS. No small contest, the Open Source CMS Awards received over 12,000 nominations and more than 23,000 votes across five categories.
As Hiro Nakamura said when he first bent time and space to land in Times Square: “Yatta!”
In addition to winning in the Overall Best Open Source CMS category, WordPress was named first runner-up in the Best Open Source PHP CMS category. This is significant because we weren’t even in the top 5 last year, and now we’re #2, ahead of Joomla! As is stated on the Award site, “WordPress made its way into the top five for the first time. The fact that it was outranked by Drupal by a very slight margin indicates how popular it has become with users as well as developers over the past year.”
Every day thousands of new people are embracing WordPress to power not just their blogs but entire sites and communities without compromising on usability or scalability (as would be the case with a legacy CMS). Every member of the WordPress community, from core developer to beginning user, should be proud to be part of this momentum: congratulations to us all!
NiftyEyeBlog would like to take this opportunity to congratulate the WordPress team as well as the whole community for the good mighty work and their commitment in giving us one of the best tool to use in our daily blogging and content managing tasks for FREE! Congratulations WordPress.
About the author: I am Phesto Enock, Tanzanian male living in Finland, professionally a software engineer, a blogger and online business researcher. I love technology and its wicked twists. I am a main author of NiftyEyeBlog So let us share our experiences. Read more from this authorRelated posts:
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