You Can't Beat Free but WordPress Does!

While all website hosting requires a fee (except for some free blogging services), the primary options for a CMS (Content Management System) are varied but none come close to the popularity and widespread use of WordPress. The primary competitors are Wix, which provides a few templates and very little true customization, like making Wix look like your favorite website. Additionally, Wix has some features that are tightly integrated, like a shopping cart. The same goes for Squarespace, which many people choose because it has an optionally integrated shopping cart. Joomla! is much more like WordPress in that it doesn't have an integrated shopping cart, but just like WordPress, you can add a plugin for that capability or just use some code from PayPal to facilitate shopping. Other features besides shopping carts are mailing list subscriptions, forms, and the like. Overall, they do nicely but these competitors can be stubbornly inflexible and don't give people what they want. They just don't have the open flexibility of WordPress to get your site to do most precisely what you want it to do and look how you want it to look.