January 14th, 2008 | Posted in Blog, General Discussion, Wordpress

WordPress as a CMS

I have recently come across someone, who completely dislikes using WordPress as a CMS. The reason? He just didn’t find that it can be used as anything else other than a Blogging platform. And he is right, up to a point.

WordPress used to be a blogging platform. Not any more. Through the use of small hacks and a few plugins, WordPress has grown to one of the best and easiest (both to theme development and administration) CMS platforms out there.

There are many reasons why:

• It separates blogging system to the Page system
• You can have multiple user/author roles
• You can customize your homepage
• You can use different templates for different pages and even categories or posts, or even parts of the site.
• There are so many plugins developed for the WordPress platform, that not many other open source systems can compete with it (it even has an e-commerce plugin, to turn your site into an eshop).
• Fully valid compatible Web Standards code (the editor helps).
• Extremely good SEO, through the use of plugins
• Also has many Statistics plugins to choose from

More than 1500 plugins, so you can extend your wordpress installation can be found here: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/

5 Responses to “WordPress as a CMS”

1. Matt Rossi Says:
   February 25th, 2008 at 4:55 pm

   Great post, and let me also point out that I love the fact that you are using a “category/post-name” permalink method. I too chose the same method, and it is nice to see others share the same belief.

   I actually wrote a post on my blog about permalinks. Check it out if you get a chance.

   http://ifohdesigns.com/blog/wordpress/the-ultimate-and-coolest-permalink-structure

2. Wordpress Plugin Centre - Wordpress as a CMS | CSSAddict Says:
   July 17th, 2008 at 12:36 am

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3. Josef Telmer Says:
   July 12th, 2009 at 2:52 am

   I found your blog by chance . but i have to say that it’s great blog very useful information and very interesting subjects just greetings and good luck
   i’m not going i will be always checking for updates.I’m very interested in CMS and all its related subjects.

4. Brass ball valve Says:
   December 8th, 2009 at 2:25 am

   I found your blog by chance .

5. Reinaldo Marander Says:
   March 20th, 2010 at 6:27 am

   I don’t like to write silly things in comment boxes either. It’s not what I want to leave behind as my signature

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