WordPress today Not just blogs anymore – WordPress is a CMS Powers social networks and membership sites Used for editorial group planning and management

What about security?

WordPress has a lot of users, that means bugs will be found – that’s a good thing!
Security updates are fairly frequent, fixing everything from issues with the code, to PHP security breaches
Can you say the same of your closed source CMS?

A few words about blogs

Anyone can blog, they are straight forward and easy
With WordPress, blogging is no harder than writing in a word processor
The content flow of blogs have changed how text is treated online
Anyone can expand their WordPress blog with plugins and themes at the click of a button

WordPress as a CMS • Still easy to update and manage • Still easy to expand feature-wise thanks to plugins • Widget areas makes most sites a breeze to manage

Anyone can blog with WordPress, so anyone can use it as a CMS

The WordPress CMS setup
Using static Pages for static content (about page, contact us)
Using categories for often updated sections (news section, blog)
Using Page Templates to gain more design control when needed

CMS with benefits
WordPress is SEO friendly from the start
Tagging is hot, and WordPress got it out of the bo
x The huge amount of plugins means that someone probably already solved your problem – no more waiting for deployment of a simple Tweet button
Huge choice of developers