The White House goes to WordPress

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Although it is news from a few days ago, it has great interest in showing how WordPress has evolved as the current CMS par excellence. A great tool for bloggers, web pages, eCommerces and a great type of websites that are finding WordPress as the CMS they need for its great ease of use and great repertoire of options.

It has been the administration that governs Donald Trump that you have chosen the WordPress CMS instead of Drupal, which has been present for almost 10 years as the platform on which the official website of the American government has moved.

The most curious thing of all is that there has been no official publication from the White House to announce the change of CMS. There is whate search the HTML source code de whitehouse.gov to realize that it is now being published thanks to WordPress.

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WordPress uses a directory and filename prefixed with "wp". By analyzing the new HTML code for the White House website, you will find a unique version of the theme. And is that WordPress separates the content of the theme through those that use CSS; a WordPress that you can learn to master with this series of tricks.

The White House uses a theme of its own called "WhiteHouse" and which is currently in version 45, which refers to Donald Trump being the forty-fifth president of the United States.

The main reason to switch from Drupal to WordPress is for financial reasons. With the relaunch of the new site, an estimated savings of $ 3 million per year to taxpayers. A sum that reflects well the difference in support that a substantial website like the White House needs when it comes to WordPress or Drupal.

WordPress keep moving forward to become the CMS par excellence due to a number of factors such as its ease of use and a good learning curve for those who want to delve into website development.


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