WordPress Dominates For Blogging Web Site

Hitting higher trending with big popularity for WordPress.

 
WordPress has been growing in popularity for years. Five years ago, we were more focused on Joomla because of everything that you could do with it. It was very customizable, but the problem is that it took more than what most people would be able to do. With Joomla designed for a more technical person, we decided to shift our focus to WordPress. We already were familiar with it and believed this was the future for Small Business web sites. And the idea has proven itself with the great simplicity in WordPress and all the additional items and features which can be added. The numerous templates and plugins for WordPress continue to grow with the ability to find just about everything you need to create and maintain your WordPress site.

In a very recent survey conducted by Royal Pingdom, they discovered that of the top 100 blogging web sites, almost 50% of them are running as a WordPress website. Most of these are self hosted which is what we have been focusing on for years. 9% are hosted by a company with the main one being WordPress.com. The chart from Royal Pingdom tells the real story and we are providing it here:
 

The top 100 are based on those listed on Technorati who has been maintaining lists for years to show them ranked for the top 100 blogs. These numbers continue to change every day and we can expect to see WordPress increasing in the next survey which is done. We know that there are a large number of news web sites that are run under customized versions of WordPress and eventually some of those customizations leak out for use by everyone else.

While you may not be writing a blog, the WordPress Content Management System (CMS) provides you the ability to easily set up a web presence to represent you or your small business. If you have not set up you business web site, now is the time to consider doing just that. You can make your site as simple or complex as you like, but you should really consider starting out simple if you have not created one before. There are several different considerations which you will need to make and some of that guess work has been taken out by downloads which we are providing. If you do not want to have WordPress.com host your web site, here is a guide to finding a hosting company. There are a number of reasons why you might want to host your own WordPress site. Most of the hosting companies have cPanels, which are control panels and we have provided a tutorial on cPanels for your use.

We have a number of other articles of interest on our site related to WordPress which may help you in getting your site set up. Once you have your site set up, you are going to need to consider adding plugins to add features to your site, such as giving people the ability to contact you by adding a plugin called Contact Form 7. This is just one of the many contact form plugins you can add to your site. The area of plugins is one that can be discovered over time.

With WordPress continuing to grow, we believe that it is the correct platform for you to start a web site on for your business. It eliminates the need for high priced programming talent to give you an immediate presence on the web and there are templates which are available on the web to add a look and feel to your web site. The better templates come with associated costs, but can make your site look as good as some of the very popular sites.

If you are not using WordPress for your web site, you should take a look at it.