Which is the best Blogging CMS 2008?

With the growing computerization, blogosphere has shown a tremendous increase in the recent years. While people used professionally tailored websites to increase the online presence of their business only, now they are using various blogging and social networking platforms to socialize and express their interests and personality too. With this advancement, the originators of blogging platforms are also giving full support by making their CMSs more user-friendly to cater to the needs of people.

There are lots of services available for blogging but WordPress, by Automattic, has evolved as the most liked and friendly CMS. At WordCamp conference held in 2008, Founder Matt Mullenweg announced impressive growth figures of WordPress. He reaffirmed that 2009 will be a bug free year for WordPress. Mullenweg’s yearly keynote, was “Strong,” and growth from both WordPress.com and WordPress.org (their hosted and self-hosted platforms, respectively) show it all. TechCrunch had indicated all the stats of WordPress over the last year. The growth of wordpress is sky rocketing. This is quite apparent from google trends’ graph too:

These stats show that WordPress is outgoing its main competitor TypePad, which in contrast to WordPress is a paid blogging platform.

WordPress offers lots of functionality which makes it to stand out of the other blogging platforms. There are lots of plugins and themes available and a good support from WordPress team itself as well as other programmers who create fabulous plugins. The focus for 2009 for the team at WordPress is to provide facility for easier upgrades and more security. And last but not the least, the most exciting of all is the much anticipated BuddyPress, a social networking platform.

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