Wordpress is extensible, well documented, and has a lot of options for themes and styling. Wordpress is also probably the CMS with the easiest learning curve. Wordpress is perfect if you just want standard web pages with text and embedded images. Its strengths lie in displaying and organizing categorized content (like blogs), and could be used for applications like digital exhibits. However, if you wish to customize Wordpress to host digital exhibits, editions and translations, or other works with robust metadata, you may need to dig deep into plugins or customizations to get Wordpress to work the way you'd like.

Best For...

• Projects where blogging and static pages are a major feature
• Projects for newcomers or those who are not yet comfortable with new technologies
• Projects where the content doesn't need to be automatically organized by a robust metadata schema

Features

• Widely used content management system with a lot of free plugins and themes
• Extensively documented. Any problem you could think about has probably already been discussed and solved on a platform like StackOverflow
• Easy-to-use GUI for customizing your site's design and content

Challenges

• Many features need to be added through plugins, which can sometimes get out-of-date or stop working
• You can do so much with it that it can sometimes cause decision fatigue
• Wordpress relies on tags and categories, so it can be challenging to implement more robust metadata, if you have content that needs to be organized according to multiple facets (such as location, subject, authorship).