Worried About WordPress

Monopolies are useful… until they’re not.

There are three reasons I keep going back to WordPress for many of my clients:

• Extensibility: The 20-year-old ecosystem can provide all the functions my clients could ever want through plugins
• Ownership: Because you house your website on your own server, there’s never a question of who owns your content. And you can pick up all the files and move to another server.
• The core platform is free, although premium plugins and builder overlays can add up in costs.

Every other, readily available, mainstream website builder system must be kept on their company servers where their functionality is often clumsy and their Terms and Services could change at any time.

• Webflow
• Squarespace
• Shopify
• WiX
• Weebly
• WordPress.com

WordPress Core is open-source, and was founded by and is led by Matt Mullenweg through the non-profit, WordPress Foundation. Unfortunately, Matt is also the founder and CEO of AutoMATTic, a multi-billion dollar company.

Until recently, Matt has been considered a ‘nice guy’ who sincerely believed WordPress.org’s mission “Democratize Publishing”. I have…