Why is Wordpress so popular when there are much better alternatives IMHO.
It was over two years ago when I first started looking into building my own website, when a friend of mine suggested Wordpress. Back then I knew very little about actually building sites, and what my friend showed me all seemed a little confusing.
Building sites with Wordpress is at the moment very popular, however what people seem to forget is that it is not that simple to use when you need your site to perform particular functions. If I want to incorporate video, I have to use a wordpress video plug in, If I want my site to be accepting passwords and logins I need to be looking at a membership site plugin etc, in fact there are over 1,500 plugins for Wordpress including: sales pages, squeeze pages, optin pages, video plugins, tracking plugins, password and login plugins on and on and on.
Now my friend has a number of sites and each one of them looks great and functions very well, however each of his sites has between 5 and 25 seperate plugins. Some of which costing more than $250 with $20 monthly membership fees. Add to the financial cost the time involved searching for and learning how to use these plugins it all starts to become a major undertaking, especially when you are just starting out and working on your site part time, sheesh, its gonna take forever. I know that's what I was thinking.
I did find a CMS that provided all the necessary tools and I do mean every tool I could ever need in relation to building a successful and profitable website. The result of having absolutely everything from hosting to keyword research from the same provider is that it has speeded up my success enormously.
Now I don't for one minute think that all of you folks reading this are suddenly going to jump ship and join me, as unfortunately when you click on my sig you probably won't "get it" To those of you who do "get it" you can look forward to joining a community of almost 50.000 webmasters who all help each other to succeed.
