WordPress has just been awarded the Overall Best Open Source CMS Award in the 2009 Open Source CMS Awards. It is the first time that WordPress has won this award and it marks a major shift in the public perception of WordPress, from blog software to full-featured CMS.

The Open Source CMS Awards received over 12,000 nominations and more than 23,000 votes across five categories. In addition to winning in the Overall Best Open Source CMS category, WordPress was named first runner-up in the Best Open Source PHP CMS category.

As is stated on the Award site, “WordPress made its way into the top five for the first time. The fact that it was outranked by Drupal by a very slight margin indicates how popular it has become with users as well as developers over the past year.”

Congratulations to all!