In the past two days, I’ve been faced with this question on a few occasions, considering that our team of developers are into developing customized platforms for specific projects. Generally I believe in “to each his own” and this post is not criticism of this stance (which are shared by many), but being a firm believer in open-source firstly and secondly being grateful to WordPress for launching my career online (to some extent anyway), I’ll definitely classify myself as being a WordPress Evangelist.

And I reckon that this passion for WordPress is based on a few things:

• it’s open-source and it’s free;
• the platform gets updated / upgraded every three months;
• the community is passionate and the knowledge base extensive; and
• plugins has been developed for most blog / website features and functions already.

Now if you consider the above, why would you decide to develop your own CMS / blog platform? Especially if you consider that WordPress is becoming more and more of a complete CMS by the day, which offers users a stable, standardized platform which can be easily customized on the front-end.

Am I ignoring some of WordPress’ flaws in the reasoning for my evangelism? Or is WordPress simply this good? I’m obviously not suggesting that you use WordPress to develop a Facebook-like social networking, but for anything else, it should be your platform of choice…

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