Content management system (CMS) is defined as a computer application that is designed to simplify the publishing and editing for website’s content. CMS supports user to create various contents without asking for too much specialized skills or knowledge like HTML coding or hand coding. This content management system provides an exclusive but simple tool to manage workflow in a highly interactive environment. All the procedures can be operated manually or automatically. Therefore, it is realized that CMS has been a potential trend for both professional and non-professional website designers.

1. The era of CMS

There are more and more corporates and government organizations, which use such free CMSs as WordPress, joomla, magento, presta…However, low price is not the only benefit that the CMSs bring to users.

As the matter of fact, not every brand or companies that used to use the CMSs during the economic recession will come back to licensed software when the economy get better. Once again, the matter is not the price but great benefits for business that come along with those CMSs. Even the cheap software, the CMSs totally can defeat them. Here are five reasons:

- The quality:

There are 2 options which ones will be more economical: a package of software designed by a minor group of designer or the one created by thousands of designers? Because of global features, the CMS’s security will be enhanced significantly as well as be attached a lot of brilliant features and improvements.

Generally, open source CMSs is built so that it closely relate to values which users wish for, not the ones suppliers thought that users expect.Many researches show us that most of entrepreneurs are actuated to apply the CMSs by its own technical pre-eminence.

- Optimization

Similarly, firms can modify a part of the open source software so that they can match with their needs. Owning to unlimited ability of creation, users only need to change the source code to get features that they wish for. It is impossible to do so if they use the licensed software.

- Free of terms and conditions

When enterprises switch to use the CMSs, they do not have to suffer the “prissy” suppliers with strict requirements for licensed software. For the licensed ones, clients are forced to operate under supplier’s control, terms, limited lifetime with price respectively; they are correspondingly restrained from utilizing the goods they paid for.

In another hand, with the CMSs, users can freely control their “end-product” – website interface and modify them. Simultaneously, there is also a wide community who is willing to support and give help technically.

- Flexibility

When using such the exclusive software like Microsoft Windows and Office, users can only follow the procedures of updating both of hardware and software which are set up before. Conversely, with the open source code, they can decide to operate the software on an older hardware and decide the time to update.

- Customization option support

Broadly, the open source CMSs are free, therefore, there are a lot of technical support and customization for every element of the product. Even when business owners wish for a more guarantee, they can purchase various customization options at some cost that is still much lower than that of licensed software. Supplying commercial options for the open source CMSs will get an ease of acceptance and positive feedbacks from users because all the companies often ask for the best elements that bring benefits to their businesses.

2. The prospective CMS in 2015

WordPress is a successor of b2/cafelog which was born and blossoms out during the 2003. It is known as a free and good CMS as well as the most favored and easy-to-use one in the world. Comparison taken recently points out that most of Internet users or even such leading online newspaper as CNN, Dow John, Wall Street Journal…use this CMS for building individual blogs, websites. Additionally, the lately statistics also indicate that there are approximately 30% of the top 10 millions leading websites which use the WordPress.

The high preference first starts from 2 main reasons: High application and high flexibility. WordPress supports for different business purposes typically shopping website or forum. Shop owners can build and extend the content and the coverage of their website through the excellent capacity of optimizing search engine. Most elements of WordPress are coded and designed for SEO purpose; therefore, clients can minimize the concern about this.

Apart from the application, WordPress also convince us of flexibility ranging from themes to plugins. People can install themes through WordPress “Appearance” administration tool or theme folder uploaded via FTP. Besides, it is easy to create advanced features through modifying or adding the PHP, HTML and CSS code found in themes. For others who are skillful enough to deal with coding, they can even create their own style of themes.

Owing to the worldwide community, WordPress offer its customer a strong technical support and a big store of extensions. There are over 30,000 plugins available so user can freely extend and enhance their website performance. These advantages help WordPress to stable its position and dominant the e-commerce market in the following years despite of many just-emerged CMSs.

Since the first time released, WordPress has always kept the pace of development and grown constantly. At the moment, no one can deny the power of this platform for CMS – based websites. WordPress has proved itself as a leading economical open source code by strong customization features and security system. People can definitely expect to see more advancement from WordPress community in 2015 and the upcoming years.