Self Hosted – runs on your servers, complete control over code and experience, “with great power comes great responsibility”
WordPress.com – largest WordPress site in the world, self-service + easy setup, SaaS: we run the infrastructure (software as a service)
Core Philosophy
WordPress: simple and elegant, but also powerful and flexible
Extensible: customize via themes and plugins
Robust API’s: easily integrate with other services
Open: you own your data and code
Rapid Iteration: 3 major releases every year + easy upgrades
Most Popular CMS on the web
Power 18% or more of the web i.e. 1 in 6 websites is WordPress
60+ million WordPress websites
22% of all new active domains run WordPress
25,000+ plugins and growing
1,500+ themes and growing
100,000 new WordPress websites every day
Huge community of service prodivers, web hosts, developers and designers.
Enterprise CMS: Blog Platform or CMS?
WordPress recently announced its movement towards CMS improvements instead of its longstanding dedication to blogs. –Not in the slides, brought to you by Sethmatics in lieu of Matt Mullenweg (founder of WordPress)
Customize Data layout, multi-author and roles and permissions, multisite to run X websites on single codebase.
Integration: API with XML-RPC and REST / builtin ajax classes
Plugins for Active Directory/LDAP, Salesforce, Adobe SiteCatalyst, Brightcove (video) and thousands more.
Social with Twitter, Facebook, Tumblr, LinkedIn, and the like
Scalability allows high traffic and volume, built in caching, developer tools, and WordPress.com proves you can host 4,000,000,000 page views per month, 500,000 blog posts per day, 400,000 comments every day and all from a single install of WordPress.
Security: major groups have vested interest in WordPress, more secure every release with testing and code review by the core team, US Government, financial intuitions and other groups.