Apparently today is The Unofficial International Wordpress Day and the organisers are asking wordpress users to blog about wordpress. Fair enough, but what to talk about?, well one wordpress blogger decided to discuss “what makes you loyal to wordpress?“, and so that seems like a good question to try and answer.

Well for me my use of wordpress breaks down into two halfs. Firstly there is my own personal use, such as this blog & 24fans.com and such, for these uses I will continue to use Wordpress for as long as it remains up to date in features and continues to be a stable base and back end for modification. I thing I hate most about all Content Management Systems is how they all seem determined to scream their name at every site visitor, simply by the way they look and are layed out. Wordpress for me offers the best options for stripping that shouting away.I

Then we get on to my other usage of Wordpress, when a client asks for a weblog and I set them up with Wordpress. Well to be frank I have no ingrained loyalty to Wordpress in this situation, that would be unprofessional, I have to set clients up with whatever best meets their needs, budget and timescale. Obviously if a client starts dropping phrases like “whatever you can setup the quickest” then I’m gonna heavily lean towards Wordpress because that is what I can set up the quickest, and if Wordpress meets their needs while another system meets their needs also, but doesn’t offer anything extra, then it’ll be Wordpress again. I guess you could call that loyalty, but i’d simply call it logical.