There are many reasons to use WordPress as your content management system.  Security, reliability, usability, popularity (41,000 plugins), its flexibility, and its long standing history with a great group of dedicated volunteer developers at its core.

• It is a secure CMS.  When used properly and customized in the correct manor, WordPress is one of the most secure CMS systems available.  For more on security and WordPress see this article.
• It is the most popular CMS in use today.  It is actively used by more that 24 million websites world wide.
• It is free.  Wordpress is free to install and free to use by anyone who wants it.  Plugins and Themes can be purchased or a user can select from over 40,197  free plugins available on WordPress.org.
• WordPress has more plugins and themes available than any other CMS system.  It has been estimated that the plugin and theme market is a billion dollar market.
• WordPress is an open source  project that is being used by 24 million active sites.
• WordPress is easy to install and use.  Many hosting companies have a “one-click” install option for WordPress.  With a one-click install a user can begin creating a website in five minutes.  When manually installing it it can take less than an hour.
• There is a community of over 1 million users that are actively using the support forum.  With websites offering free support, tutorials on YouTube, and for programmers the WordPress Codex provides detailed explanations of the inner workings of WordPress itself.  Giving them the ability to fully customize your WordPress site.

For small to medium sized companies WordPress is a perfect solution.  It gives companies the ability to make minor updates to their site internally. Which can save money and time.

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