Why WordPress in a World with Options?
WordCamp Phoenix 2020
Aaron D. Campbell
@AaronCampbell
Other options
Site Builders
- Wix
- Weebly
- Squarespace
- Drupal
- Joomla
e-commerce
- Shopify
- Big Commerce
- Wix
- Weebly
- Squarespace
Technologies
- Laravel
- Django
- Spring
- Rails
- Jamstack
Good
Cost
Free Software ≠ Free Website
Marketshare benefits
- Familiar
- Lasting
- Works Everywhere
Stable & Reliable
Secure
Flexible
- Well over 50,000 plugins
- Thousands of themes
- Highly extensible
- Do almost anything
Open Source is Better for the Web
The Web is Important
Why WordPress?
- Cost?
- Marketshare – Familiar & Long Lasting
- Own Your Data
- Stable & Reliable
- Secure
- Flexible
- Good for the Web