why wordpress is one of the most popular cms?

In 2012, Automattic, the for-profit hosting firm that supports WordPress project, hosted more than million websites, generated over $45 revenue, and had funded over $317 million at valuation of more than $1 billion..   Why would we ever have reason to think that WordPress wo not continue to be the web hosting platform of the future with this much momentum and ecosystem that's bigger than the population of Iceland engaged in its success..   While Squarespace and Wix on the list below will continue to compete with Automattic, I'd argue that larger shift may be on the horizon..   GitHub Pages has little more both platforms are expanding, and GitHub Pages publishing model is superior to WordPress in many ways.   Over 100 Static Site Generators, written in languages like Ruby, Node, Go, others, and Python, are currently competing for adoption.   SSGs are becoming more and more popular among developers because they are quicker, safer, and simpler to use than WordPress, and they integrate well with version control systems like GitHub and Bitbucket.   On his blog, David Walsh does job of outlining the benefits and drawbacks of static sites..   That is, any given static site generator needs lightweight content editor, and possibility for independent developers to produce themes and plugins for SSG in question.   What's left then is smart hosting, and that's GitHub Pages, and others come into the picture ..   With the release of Calypso, they fully rewrote WordPress admin portal using NodeJS and ReactJS, resulting in STATIC output..   Read more