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WordPress powers 27 percent of all websites on the internet. The open-source content management system (CMS) is used by an impressive collection of sites, from universities and nonprofits to large publications like the New York Times and massive enterprise companies like Sony and GM. WordPress’s versatility and ability to scale makes it the obvious choice for any website, regardless of the industry. Its open-source foundation has not only helped facilitate its adoption but has also enabled the explosion of an entire industry around the CMS. From security and hosting companies, to the robust plugin and theme marketplace, there’s an increasing […]

According to Nelio Software, in 2016 more than 60 percent of the top 100 sites on Inc. 5000 used WordPress to power their sites. This is up more than 20 percent from 2015, showing a rapid increase in adoption among America’s fastest-growing private companies. The continuous and rapid growth points to the maturation of the CMS and highlights just how far it’s come since its humble beginning as a blogging platform. There are several things that can be attributed to this unstoppable growth, including mass-adoption of open source, breaking the ‘blog’ stereotype, and the WordPress REST API, just to name a few. WordPress as a full-service application By now, WordPress […]

We repeatedly mention on this site how easy it is to start your own WordPress business (at least I do). The WordPress platform is free, user-friendly, easy to learn, and offers many different business opportunities. It seems like all you need to do is get started. So why doesn’t everybody? I mean, there is a staggering number of people who play with the idea to start their own online business for years but never pull the trigger. In addition to that, of those who do make the leap, many fail. According to some statistics, 90 percent of Internet business startups […]

WordPress has come a long way since its 2003 inception as a nascent blogging platform, forked from b2/cafelog. Now a full-fledged CMS, WordPress enjoys a significant market share, powering 26.9% of the world’s websites all told, and almost 60% of the websites built using a known CMS. As the web has evolved, so has WordPress along with it. For example, the WP REST API enables apps powered by JavaScript to run on the platform. Not much of a surprise, then, that at last year’s State of the Word, Mullenweg urged WordPress users to learn JavaScript, stating: “I believe quite strongly […]

WordPress isn’t the only free publishing platform out there. By now, anyone who wants to start publishing online has many different platforms to choose from. In the past, we have already looked into how Medium and Joomla compare to the WordPress platform. It’s about time we turned to another competitor: Tumblr. The WordPress vs Tumblr duel is an interesting one. Not only is Tumblr one of the most popular publishing platforms out there, at WordCamp Europe 2016, Matt Mullenweg also called it the most serious competitor to WordPress of the last five years. For that and other reasons, we will talk about […]

Search engine optimization is a complex topic involving many different disciplines. No wonder we have written extensively on this topic before, for example here, here, here and here. Especially website owners who take care of SEO themselves can use all the help they can get and do well using all the tools at their disposal. Last year we already looked at the best SEO tools and WordPress plugins for 2015 and now it’s time for an update. For that reason, below we will have a look at some of the most useful SEO utilities 2016 that will help you make […]