wordpress and cms

[digiweb]

So I'm new to wordpress but what I've seen I love.

Is it purely a blogging tool? Is it a content management system?

I'd like to write stuff in word press and publish it to different placeholders in my web site. To do that I'd have to know how word press identifies entries so the pages that are looking for content know what to ask for.

If that makes sense.

[John Scott]

I think it's a cms to a cetain extend. It's easy to run an entire site using it.

I really like what James did here: www.las-vegas-nv-online.com

[DarrenC]

It is a CMS - be it limited unless you download the CMS theme / plugins.

[noob_0001]

Originally Posted by CarolineBogart

So I'm new to wordpress but what I've seen I love.

Is it purely a blogging tool? Is it a content management system?

I'd like to write stuff in word press and publish it to different placeholders in my web site. To do that I'd have to know how word press identifies entries so the pages that are looking for content know what to ask for.

If that makes sense.

Each blog article has an ID associated with it. You can see it when you are managing articles. When you mouse over the links associated with the article you will see that ID. You may not be able to pull it in with out all the formating of a page unless you do a lot of special coding.

[digiweb]

Hey, thanks all. this is sweet.

In case anyone ever has my issues I'll post 'em here they can avoid my stumbling blocks

If you're running windows get wamp5. Stop IIS. Run all wamp services (apache, mysql). Run phpmyadmin. Create wordpress. Put wordpress unzip under localhost physical directory (c:\wamp\www\wordpress). Copy wordpress/wp-config-sample.php to wordpress/wp-config.php. Change db_name to wordpress, db_user to root (YES CHANGE THIS LATER). Default password for fresh mysql is blank. If my sql acts up edit c:\windows\php.ini, uncomment extension=php_mysql.dll. Browse to localhost/wordpress/wp-admin/install.php and run.


noob I was able to create a crude cms page from your advice.

The only thing is associating ID's with placeholders. I mean I can create blocks of placeholders and always say "get id 5 here," "get id 8 here," but if anyone ever needs to update those place holders they'd have to overwrite the existing story. New pages would always have to have wordpress id's associated with the content holders -- create a page, create placeholders on that page, create a story for each placeholder, note its ID, edit that ID to create and update content.

I'm just thinking outloud, dunno if this makes sense.

[digiweb]

Having gone through that process and learned a few things, I have one word of advice (and this is really, really sweet): mambo