WordPress: How popular and secure is it?

With WordPress you can make:

1) Personal website

2) Company website

3) Online store (eshop)

4) Blog

5) Professional and artistic portfolio

6) Hotel website with booking engine

7) Website with the possibility of online reservations (tourist offices, car rentals, etc.)

8) Medical website

9) eLearning website integrated into the LMS platform

10) Marketplace

WordPress has many advantages such as:

1) It is an open source CMS, i.e. free.

2) It provides flexibility and freedom to build any type of website (online store, blog, news site, etc.).

3) No technical skills or coding knowledge required. The WordPress block editor makes it super easy to create stunning pages.

4) It offers a lot of flexibility, which makes it an ideal CMS platform for beginners and developers.

5) There are thousands of WordPress themes and plugins available, both paid and free. These allow adding all the useful extras to the website, such as contact forms, photo galleries, etc.

6) WordPress is well designed for search engine optimization (SEO). It’s easy to create SEO-friendly URLs, categories and tags for website posts. You can also choose from several SEO plugins for your convenience.

These and more make WordPress the most popular CMS, but it also has its drawbacks:

1) After installation, you need to set up your domain name and hosting.

2) Make a backup before every change.

3) Not all WordPress themes and plugins are reliable or high quality.

4) No personal customer support, relying mostly on forums, tutorials and documentation.

As we mentioned above in the article, WordPress is one of the most famous CMS (Content Management System).

The scope of WordPress as a CMS is constantly expanding: according to the latest information published by the WordPress translations page, there are exclusive versions in 205 locales. Currently, 38 of these locales are 100% translated and 31 are more than 95% translated. About 71 locales have a translation rate of less than 50%, indicating that WordPress development requires a large number of translators.

Still, WordPress websites today attract approximately 409 million unique visitors each month and 20 billion page views each month. Also, about 70 million new posts are made every day and 77 million new comments are posted every month. In fact, this equates to more than 97 posts per hour, or 1620 posts per minute, published on a WordPress site.

According to a report published by former head of Google’s webspam team Matt Cutts, websites built with WordPress are likely to rank higher in search engines. This is because the CMS is already built to handle 80-90% of Google’s crawling problems. Therefore, WordPress is one of the most SEO-friendly solutions for website builders on the market today.

Additionally, WordPress is one of the most popular CMS solutions among websites with the highest levels of traffic and customer interest. About 291,329 of the top one million websites worldwide use WordPress.

Companies using WordPress today include major market leaders such as Bitly, Bloomberg.com, Booking.com, Cambridge.org and Coursera.

At the same time, according to W3techs, WordPress currently represents 64.3% of the CMS market. According to W3techs, the second most popular CMS, Shopify, is not far behind WordPress, with a market share of 6.2%. Shopify is followed by Wix at 3.4% and Squarespace at 3%.

There are currently around 90,000 attacks against WordPress sites on the internet every minute. In particular, the biggest threat to users is plugin security, with 50% of hacking entries coming from plugins.

The best way to protect yourself is to only download plugins from trusted sites and make sure your apps are up-to-date. In addition to plugins, there are brute force attacks (16.1%), kernel, theme and update issues (less than 10%).

Finally, about 52% of reported WordPress security issues are plugin related. While WordPress issues only make up 11% of attack issues, the core of WordPress is responsible for around 37% of all security concerns. Notably, WPScan also found that around 39% of WordPress vulnerabilities are related to cross-scripting issues and around 44% of hacking issues are the result of older WordPress sites.

In conclusion, starting in 2003, WordPress has enjoyed nearly two decades of success in the CMS space, and while the landscape has changed dramatically since WordPress was created, its core functionality and flexibility have remained constant to this day.