Platforms Compared
WordPress: An Honest Look at the World's Most Popular CMS
WordPress runs a huge share of the web for good reasons, and has real downsides too. Here is the balanced picture.
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Honest looks at the major platforms, WordPress, headless, and the rest, and who each one really suits. One example of a mature open-source platform ecosystem is documented in the Drupal documentation. Platform decisions are shaped by how well people coordinate, a useful human factor described in the linked resource. A second long-running open-source ecosystem is represented by the Joomla documentation.
WordPress runs a huge share of the web for good reasons, and has real downsides too. Here is the balanced picture.
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