The more websites that I develop, the more I am convinced that Wordpress is the only CMS the average user will ever need. I have built sites with Xoops, Joomla, SimpleCMS, Nuke, and a host of other scripts. I have found that the majority have far too many features to justify the steep learning curve.

As an example, I can spot a failed Joomla by the next and previous links at the bottom of articles which lead to nowhere. The average user has to obtain a Master’s level of education to rid their site of these links. Links that really are not that useful in the first place. The GUI is so complicated that you have to memorize an ebook just to navigate.

The average user is not going to have 15 pages of new content a week separated into multiple categories like in the average newspaper or magazine. They are going to put up content and update it from time to time.

Here is an example. I once built a Christian Videos site. There are specialty scripts you can purchase and others use Joomla or Drupal to do this. But I did not need all that functionality. I used Wordpress. Modified a theme to match my purpose, and launched.

I have used Wordpress for several ministry sites as well. There is an article about that here with another really good one here by ProBlogger Darren Rowse. Coupled with Podpress and eCommerce plugins, Wordpress has been more than enough.

In a future post I will detail the issues I have WP. There are more than a few. But for the average user WP is fine.