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Cool Using Wordpress as CMS.

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


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Old 05-20-2006, 08:45 PM
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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.
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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!
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Wordpress is very easy to edit, look at my cms " Blog" http://wiiland.net
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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.
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Old 05-21-2006, 09:10 AM
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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
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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.
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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
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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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Yes, it's a brillant blogging tool, but I wouldn't call it a CMS.

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WP sometime can "rape" the search engine
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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?
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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.
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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.
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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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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.
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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.
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I'm sure you could turn off comments, but I would consider keeping them. They get users engaged with your site and keeps them coming back.
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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.
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It's workable if you don't plan on having too many pages - I read on one of the other forums I visit that if you're having hundreds of pages, Wordpress runs v...e...r...y slowly.




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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.
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