I was first introduced to WordPress about 5-6 years and it was love at first sight. From the time I started using it, I’ve never looked back or thought about shifting to another blogging platform/software. WordPress has gone a long way since then and I’ve witness it grow and mature from a blogging software into a full-featured CMS.
Being an avid WordPress user and advocate, I was happy when I found out that WordPress was recently awarded the 2009 Overall Best Open Source CMS Award by the Open Source CMS Awards. Matt Mullenweg himself was very excited about the award.
I was very excited last week to learn that WordPress has been awarded the Overall Best Open Source CMS Award in the 2009 Open Source CMS Awards. This is a landmark for us, as it is the first time we’ve won this award, and it marks a shift in the public perception of WordPress, from blog software to full-featured CMS. No small contest, the Open Source CMS Awards received over 12,000 nominations and more than 23,000 votes across five categories.
Aside from winning the Overall Best Open Source CMS category, WordPress was also 1st runner-up for the Best Open Source PHP CMS category. Making it to the #2 spot this year is a great feat considering that WordPress wasn’t even in the top 5 last year and puts WordPress ahead of Joomla. Another thing to note is that Drupal, the winner of the Best Open Source PHP CMS category, outranked WordPress only by a very slight margin, which means that WordPress has really become more popular with the users and developers over the past year.
I like Matt’s ending statement:
Every member of the WordPress community, from core developer to beginning user, should be proud to be part of this momentum: congratulations to us all!
As a user, advocate and a member of the WordPress community I’m happy and proud for this recent achievement of WordPress and I certainly feel that I’m a part of this success. Even though I’m not a core developer or theme/plugin developer, I believe that I’ve done my part with my WordPress news/updates, WordPress theme & plugin reviews and other WordPress-related posts which are my contributions to the community.
Congratulations to WordPress, the Automattic team and all the WordPress core developers, theme/plugin developers and users!
Btw, I just remembered that WordPress won Best Open Source Social Networking CMS in the 2007 Open Source CMS Awards two years ago.
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March 12th, 2010 at 8:58 am
Wordpress is for all of us… and here to stay as long it is free :)
December 1st, 2009 at 12:48 am
WordPress rocks, and as a blogging platform it is king. The fact that the Content Management side of things is evolving and developing into the best open source offering out there just makes for more versatility and more potential uses and users.
November 22nd, 2009 at 8:32 am
I’m a little surprised they’ve only won twice. ;)
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November 20th, 2009 at 12:44 pm
Greate news! Wordpress is my best Open Source ever! I really respect those people behind it!
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November 20th, 2009 at 4:36 am
I dont think anyone would be surprised wordpress made it. They are BY FAR the best platform for whatever content you would want for a site/blog.
November 19th, 2009 at 10:02 pm
it’s indeed a golden milestone for WP to have reaped this award and Automattic team deserves it well. it feels good being a WP user.
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November 19th, 2009 at 8:07 pm
Congratulation for WordPress which has become a winner in the Best Overall Open Source CMS category and was 1st runner-up on Best Open Source PHP CMS category.
WordPress CMS is a friendly platform and easy to manage. I really like WordPress, and I also use it for my blog
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November 19th, 2009 at 8:01 pm
Congrats, Mr. WordPress Advocate. It’s a milestone worth celebrating indeed. :)
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November 19th, 2009 at 7:56 pm
Congratulations to Wordpress! I don’t know where I’d be without it! I whine and moan about it from time to time, but I’m really whining and moaning about my ignorance of coding. Wordpress is awesome!
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November 19th, 2009 at 4:45 pm
Congrats WP developers and users. I am not yet an expert user on WP but I am on my way.
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November 19th, 2009 at 3:41 pm
Kudos to us WordPress users and developers!
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November 19th, 2009 at 1:09 pm
I’m not too surprised as WP is the best and most powerful blogging platform. It had great features and is easy to custimize. I think more then 80% bloggers use Wordpress.