I have had many people and clients ask me what content management system (CMS) that I prefer to use and I thought I would share the answer with everyone and the reasons for my choice.

My answer is: WordPress

Why I chose WordPress: I chose WordPress because over the years I have used many content management systems such as Joomla, Drupal and CMS Made Simple to name just a few and each one had their strengths and after a while I was tired of all of the weaknesses and I wanted something that would fit more with mine and my clients needs.

Strengths of WordPress:

• Free
• Opensource
• Easy to work with
• Uses standard Php syntax rather than a special framework
• Supports multiple themes at once
• Thousands of plugins
• Great documentation
• I haven’t found a limitation to what can be done with it
• I can get a website up and running within a few hours
• Software doesn’t really slow down the page rendering speeds
• Great people friendly URL’s

Weaknesses of WordPress:

• Doesn’t have great e-commerce features with plug-ins
• Not an easy way to give specific users permissions on a per page basis
• User roles are Limited to only 5 different settings
• Adding different post types isn’t as easy as it could be
• There isn’t a great way to create ajax-able content