To double its market share from 21% to 43% in just ten years in a fiercely competitive global market is an incredible achievement. That’s exactly what WordPress has done—a platform that empowers even those with no development background to create a website with ease.
Now, you might assume these are mostly simple websites for small businesses. And in part, you’d be right: small businesses outnumber large corporations in every market, which naturally means more simple sites are built. As a rule of thumb, the less design and UX experience a site creator has, the more modest the site will likely be. But here’s the key—with professional support or more advanced skills, WordPress can scale to any level. That’s why many well-known international brands such as Mercedes-Benz, Angry Birds and Bloomberg run their professional, high-performing websites on WordPress.
How many WordPress websites are there? Here’s perhaps the most surprising fact in today’s post: there are now more than 500 million WordPress websites, with over 10 000 new sites added every single day. This makes WordPress the most widely used platform in the world—clear proof of its reliability and quality, trusted even by world-famous corporations.
What Makes WordPress So Popular?
Building a website from scratch without a framework is time-consuming, expensive, and often requires professional developers. Even small updates may be difficult for non-technical users. WordPress removes these barriers. Let’s look at why it’s the go-to-choice for so many.
Versatility
WordPress supports everything from simple blogs to complex business solutions and large-scale online stores. With WooCommerce, WordPress becomes a particularly powerful solution for e-commerce, offering merchants a flexible and scalable system. (We’ll dive deeper into WooCommerce in our next blog post.)
Flexibility
The WordPress ecosystem includes thousands of plugins and extensions to enhance your website with security features, SEO tools, marketing integrations, and design options.
In 2024, the platform offered more than 59 000 plugins and 13,000 themes for creating a unique design. This allows every business to tailor its site to match its corporate identity — from colors and fonts to logos and layout.
Ease of Use
WordPress is user-friendly and doesn’t require a technical background. Its dashboard is intuitive, enabling even beginners to add pages, posts, or products with ease.
Visual page builders like Elementor and Gutenberg allow you to design pages by simply dragging and dropping elements.
Thousands of tutorials and a large support community make it easy to troubleshoot issues quickly. This accessibility makes WordPress ideal for small businesses, marketers, and bloggers, who can manage and update their sites independently, without relying on a developer for every detail.
Cost-effectiveness
Compared to custom-built websites, WordPress is faster and more affordable. At Hundred, for example, we can build a fully configured WordPress site in just 4–5 weeks, while a custom-coded solution often takes months. Even with the quick delivery, clients can be assured of a professional website that includes all the necessary features and performs seamlessly.
Running costs are also lower: WordPress itself is free and open source. All you pay for is hosting and any premium add-ons you choose.
Scalability
Once created, your website can grow seamlessly with your business. There’s no need to rebuild from scratch when expanding from a small local company to an international brand or even a unicorn—WordPress scales with you.
Examples
In addition to global brands, many unique projects rely on WordPress. One example is 277 Fifth NoMad, a real estate development in New York. Their modern property sales portal uses plugins like:
- Genesis Page Builder – for building mobile-friendly, drag-and-drop layouts.
- Meta Slider – to create image galleries and slideshows.
- Hero Banner – featuring large, engaging visuals at the top of the page.
Interactive Maps – highlighting locations and nearby amenities such as dining, art galleries, wellness centers, and shops.
From our own portfolio at Hundred digital agency, we’ve recently built WordPress websites for:
Want a glimpse of the possibilities? Check out this demo video showing how a media company like The New York Times could publish content on a WordPress-based platform.
Summary
WordPress is one of the world’s most flexible, scalable, and cost-effective web development platforms. Its wide usability, vast library of plugins and themes, ease of use, and global adoption make it an excellent choice for businesses of any size.
Whether you need a personal portfolio, blog, e-commerce site, or corporate website, WordPress helps you stay competitive and grow with confidence. In case of an online store, WordPress paired with WooCommerce is one of the most reliable and versatile combinations available.
Outsource Your Website Development and Save Time
While building a WordPress website is achievable even for beginners, it still takes time and knowledge to get it right. Obviously, it also helps to know the different options so that you don’t have to scroll through the whole catalogue. That’s where we come in. At Hundred digital agency, we combine experience and creativity to deliver a site tailored to your needs.
Contact us to find a solution that fits you!