John Conroy1 of CMSWire wrote “Results: Most Popular CMS in Technorati’s Top 100” which finds “WordPress dominates the list” and “[WordPress is used on] a whopping 34 percent of the 100 blogs on Technorati’s Top 100″.2
Read the article, and check out the other great content lately on CMSWire. Recently, I particularly enjoyed the the interview with Drupal founder Dries Buytaert.
Back in November, I had an email discussion with CMSWire Publisher & Chief Editor Brice Dunwoodie where I accused CMSWire having a bias against WordPress including pointing out specific examples. His response reassured me:
We’re small and growing and always looking to improve quality. Time is always tight and we don’t always make the best decisions. But we do care about doing the right thing and with constructive feedback we are sure to move in the right direction.
The quality since then has greatly improved. So if you do have any WordPress or other CMS related news story tips, I recommend sharing it with them.
Anyway, back to “Results: Most Popular CMS in Technorati’s Top 100″.
Although, I agree with people that these lists get too much attention (and have their own problems3), these tools are one valid dimension of popularity. WordPress being so well presented is great promotion! Who doesn’t choose the products that their friends and colleagues use.
I would be interested to know how many of the blogs on platforms other than WordPress predate a stable version of WordPress?
How does the Technorati 1000 look? The 10000? What about other top lists of bloggers?
I’m always engaging non-WordPressers about what we can do to make it worth while for them to migrate to WordPress. If you aren’t using WordPress what do we have to do to make WordPress the right tool for you?
- It would be wonderful if you could click on an author and find a little them and a list of the articles they have written. If only they were using WordPress. [↩]
- I hope John didn’t have to do collect that data by hand. [↩]
- Its funny that http://www.bad-behavior.ioerror.us/ is in the top 100. [↩]
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Wordpress is a great blogging platform. I have found Drupal better for true CMS projects, but Wordpress is a good middle ground for most user requirements.
It’s interesting to see the dominance of Wordpress though. I think this is simply that it is a better product than many other offerings out there. Even perhaps some pay for solutions.
Hey Lloyd,
If you really are concerned about journalistic integrity, why not criticize sites like The Blog Herald that are heavily biased against Movable Type? I guess my point is, if you’re a fan of WordPress, that’s fine. I’m a fan of Movable Type. Just don’t present it as a move to eliminate unjust and biased reviews.
Thanks for the comment Jesse, but I’m not quick following your argument. I’m not passionate or knowledgeable about most aspects of Movable Type, so I won’t be a good person to point out bias of The Blog Herald — and to be honest, I seldom read articles on that site.
It’s interesting you mention this in the more general context, because I was recently thinking about how powerful a brand is, a title it, and how people use/abuse them, and how it relates to speaking in the language our audience understands.
Specifically what made me think of this was Dennis Howlett and Thomas Otter’s crude arguments that Robert Scoble is a criminal. Near the end of Thomas’s original post it reads, “I’m glad to see blawgs joining the discussion, for instance the Canadian Privacy Law Blog” A name like “the Canadian Privacy Law Blog” sounds collaborative and authorative to me, but when I went there, the blog makes it clear that it is a single lawyer David T.S. Fraser’s blog. Don’t get me wrong David T.S. Fraser blog might be very good, but the title through me off.
Thanks for your reply Lloyd. Didn’t intend to come across attacking. I suppose if you’re proficient with WP, you’re going to want to promote it and see it covered thoroughly. Your article indicated that you criticized Brice for not covering WordPress enough, but I find bias on both sides of the aisle.
Jesse, there’s definitely tons of bias all over the place. People are very… passionate about blogging related topics.
I do celebrate passion and advocacy! Like you though I dislike when it is done under the guise of journalism.
What really impresses me about Brice is how he is shaping CMSWire into a journalistic offering — a site telling all sides of CMS news stories. That is the type of site that I’m likely to go to for news.
Aside, not that it is essential to the conversation, but it wasn’t only the absense of WordPress coverage that I protested.
Sure, Wordpress is the most SEO Friendly CMS. Joomla is second best.