Mid-sized companies too.<p>We have a large content team and use WordPress across our company (several dozen websites) because it gets the job done for that content team. Our sites are ultimately just landing pages for ads and feed into our sales team as leads.<p>With our small 3-4 person devteam, we make our own themes and build into our WordPress sites all of the features that you&#x27;d want to host a site that&#x27;s just content and a pipeline into our CRM (lots of handrolled plugins, custom functionality). We use modern ops practices (shoutouts to Pantheon for being a forward-looking PHP host) and write great code on a platform that&#x27;s honestly not used to it. Some of the most interesting work that I&#x27;ve ever done.<p>As our team grows and our tools get more robust, we may explore using Wordpress to generate static pages for better performance. We also use other tools (Laravel, Rails, Node) when it makes sense to. Seriously though with good ops practices and developers who aren&#x27;t lazy running the show, Wordpress can be a fantastic platform. This is absolutely some of the most interesting work that I&#x27;ve ever done.<p>WordPress runs 1&#x2F;4 of the internet and not because 1&#x2F;4 of the internet is cheap (though WordPress and PHP in general have fit that niche for a long time) - it&#x27;s because training content authors to use custom&#x2F;other tools costs money.