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Today I have two special guests on the show from beAutomated.com and we discuss why WordPress is the best content management system.

Benefits of WordPress
1. Purpose of a CMS

• Keep content/data, design and functionality code separated and globalized
• Empower the webmaster to make changes themselves with ease
• Connect with current and future social media and other pre-built outlets
• Inherit functionality that comes from the core and from the community extras

2. Joomla!

• Next most popular (AlexaRank)
• Powerful, very complex to navigate admin area, doesnʼt check for updates
• Model View Controller code oriented

3. Drupal

• Close third most popular
• Powerful, reliable, more complex than WordPress to install / update / navigate
• Concept of CCK versus WYSIWYG

4. Similarities

• 1. All of these popular platforms are 90% the same. They are 5% different in terms of UI and 5% different in terms of PHP objects/methods.
• 2. Examples:

a. WordPress Widget = Drupal Block = J! Module = CMSMS Global Content
b. Gravity Forms = Drupal Webforms Module = J! CKForms Component = CMSMS Form Builder Extension
5. WordPress

• Specialization – more benefit comes from focusing and depth
• Popularity -the most popular by far, evidently growing, popular with marketers
• Ease of use – easy to update,frequent updates, clean interface
• Customizable – countless free plugins/themes, vastAPI for custom dev

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