People continue to ask why I look to WordPress to build even non blog websites. For various reasons of course, including ease of creating content, ease of changing layouts, and ease of adding modules (plug-ins). All of those factors and more led WordPress to win the “Hall of Fame CMS” from Pakt Publishing.
Pakt Publishing sponsored the Open Source CMS contest, and WordPress won against other strong contenders like Drupal and Joomla.
While it’s nice to use “award winning” software, the more important reason to look to reviews, contests, and the like, is that is shows recognition within the community. And recognition tends to both make it easier to get recognized, increases use, but more importantly decreases the chances of a software project being mothballed.
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