Using Wordpress as CMS.

SaN-DeeP · 05-15-2006, 07:14 PM

What are your comments and views about using wordpress as a CMS ?
Anyone tried doing same ? Please share your URL or PM in case you are using wordpress as CMS

Thanks.

kenkam · 05-20-2006, 09:45 PM

I did something for my Society at uni.
http://www.brishksoc.com

It assumes a blog style but that will change later.

It all really depends on what you want to do. If you want to put a few photos as gallery, have a news section, and some static pages, then wordpress would be the way to go. Otherwise, you can try looking at some of the other ones out there. I would go for Drupal, but then that's just personal preference.

reteep · 05-21-2006, 02:45 AM

I use Wordpress for a lot of sites as CMS. It's perfect for a basic(!) CMS. I also use a bridge to vbulletin so it's sharing the same userbase, works flawless!

Sabeur · 05-21-2006, 06:57 AM

Yah,

Wordpress is very easy to edit, look at my cms " Blog" http://wiiland.net

digiweb · 05-21-2006, 07:35 AM

Do you expect to manage the content, be able to insert blocks of content at pre-defined places? Andreas are you doing that with wordpress?

san-deep maybe look at joomla. I'm loving it.

James Trotta · 05-21-2006, 10:10 AM

I think Wordpress is a brilliant CMS and ahve a few domains to prove it. Check out http://www.v7n.com/forums/website-re...gned-site.html

and http://www.v7n.com/forums/website-re...ateculture.com

BingoBalls · 05-21-2006, 05:20 PM

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Originally Posted by CarolineBogart

san-deep maybe look at joomla. I'm loving it.

Joomla really has a great backend and the overall site look is great but I havent had the time to sit and learn it myself

digiweb · 05-23-2006, 11:43 PM

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Originally Posted by BingoBalls

Joomla really has a great backend and the overall site look is great but I havent had the time to sit and learn it myself

indeed. I spent 2 weeks doing nothing but getting a feel for it. I built one web site with every possible combination of blog/section/table/category/content/url etc menu types just to see what would happen.

digiweb · 05-21-2006, 05:18 PM

Yes, it's a brillant blogging tool, but I wouldn't call it a CMS.

A CMS should symbolically identify content so that it can be moved from place to place through the admin back end.

James Trotta · 05-21-2006, 10:29 PM

I don't usually reorganize things after creating them, but if I understand you, this is easily done with Wordpress. Let's say I hvae an article in the dating category, but I want to move it to the marriage category. Or put it in both categories. Either way, we're talking about a very very simple process. I would say that moving content around is well-handled using Wordpress. I mean if you checkout my date culture site, it's no blog but Wordpress takes care of everything.

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Originally Posted by CarolineBogart

Yes, it's a brillant blogging tool, but I wouldn't call it a CMS.

A CMS should symbolically identify content so that it can be moved from place to place through the admin back end.

digiweb · 05-23-2006, 11:46 PM

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Originally Posted by James Trotta

I don't usually reorganize things after creating them, but if I understand you, this is easily done with Wordpress. Let's say I hvae an article in the dating category, but I want to move it to the marriage category. Or put it in both categories. Either way, we're talking about a very very simple process. I would say that moving content around is well-handled using Wordpress. I mean if you checkout my date culture site, it's no blog but Wordpress takes care of everything.

yes yes yes you're right, wordpress has categories. I think it's one of the reasons it's superior to blogger.

Joomla is setup like this:

section 1, category 1, story 1
section 1, category 1, story 2
section 1, category 2, story 1
you can see where this is going

One level of category is perfect for a blog, but section/category/story is not enough for a web site.

James Trotta · 05-24-2006, 04:45 AM

Honestly, I'm not sure why you would want to go deeper than category - subcategory (which is what I do on my Wordpress blogs and sites. They way you ahve it set up, 1 click to get to section 1, 2nd click gets you to category 1 or 2, 3rd click gets you to story 1 or 2.

Go any deeper and you're breaking the old web design rule about not having stuff more than 3 clicks away from the homepage.

I can see Wordpress being inadequate for a huge site, but for a small to medium sized contnet site, category - subcategory - article has always been enough for me.

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Originally Posted by CarolineBogart

Joomla is setup like this:

section 1, category 1, story 1
section 1, category 1, story 2
section 1, category 2, story 1
you can see where this is going

One level of category is perfect for a blog, but section/category/story is not enough for a web site.

digiweb · 05-24-2006, 09:57 PM

I can go farther than 3 clicks, it depends on whether the web site is for public consumption or it's emulating a windows app.

Customers have short attention spans. Employees can have deep structures.

Antonio · 05-22-2006, 06:31 AM

WP sometime can "rape" the search engine

kenkam · 05-24-2006, 09:31 PM

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Originally Posted by Antonio

WP sometime can "rape" the search engine

And what exactly do you mean by that? I am confused...

Julie · 05-22-2006, 01:34 PM

I think Wordpress would make a decent very basic CMS, but for more complex stuff I'd recommend Drupal. I think its far superior to Joomla or anything else out there as far as what you can do with it.

digiweb · 05-23-2006, 11:44 PM

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Originally Posted by Julie

I think Wordpress would make a decent very basic CMS, but for more complex stuff I'd recommend Drupal. I think its far superior to Joomla or anything else out there as far as what you can do with it.

I was afraid I was being hasty.

What's superior about it?

Emperor · 05-22-2006, 02:22 PM

I’ve been wondering for some time now if it would be possible to use the “create new page function” on WordPress to build a site. Instead of the main page being a blog it would be a “static” page like a normal site the only difference would be that it used WP to create the pages.

James Trotta · 05-24-2006, 04:40 AM

I have a static frontpage on dateculture.com. Then on las-vegas-nv-online.com I have the top of the front page static and the bottom a blog.

Quote:

Originally Posted by Emperor

Iâ€™ve been wondering for some time now if it would be possible to use the â€œcreate new page functionâ€ on WordPress to build a site. Instead of the main page being a blog it would be a â€œstaticâ€ page like a normal site the only difference would be that it used WP to create the pages.

Emperor · 05-24-2006, 06:13 AM

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Originally Posted by James Trotta

I have a static frontpage on dateculture.com. Then on las-vegas-nv-online.com I have the top of the front page static and the bottom a blog.

What you did with datingculture.com is exactly what I was thinking but instead of having a blog time site with comments and stuff I would just want WP to create a bunch of static pages. Every time I wanted to add more content I would just create another page and that’s it. In my opinion this could be very handy because people would be able to create an entire site in minutes.