The good Plenty of third-party themes and plug-ins Elegant interface Able to power heavy trafficked websites The bad MySQL is only database choice Dashboard security could be better If you are in the market for a blogging platform, content management system or a complete web platform, you can do far, far worse than choose WordPress. The WordPress platform is in use at highly respected and trafficked sites such as the New York Times blogs and TechCrunch . This shows that it has the performance, scalability and flexibility needed to do almost any task

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