WordPress Wins the 2009 Overall Best Open Source CMS Award

Packt Publishing is pleased to announce that WordPress has won the Overall Best Open Source CMS Award in the 2009 Open Source CMS Awards. WordPress has won this Award for the first time in the past four years, earning itself a place in the Hall of Fame category for the Award next year.

When asked about the community’s response to this success, WordPress founder Matt Mullenweg said, “the entire WordPress community is honored to accept this award.” Mullenweg went on to say that “every day thousands of new people are embracing WordPress to power not just their blog but their entire website and community without compromising on usability or scalability as you would with a legacy CMS.”

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