Comments on: What are Blogs Good For? – Blog as CMS

By: Jeff L.

Jeff L. — Sun, 15 Apr 2007 01:59:51 +0000

For those of you wanting to make your wordpress site into a cms there is one resource you cannot live without. http://wp-plugins.net/ is an extremely thorough database of plug-ins. The amount of plugins on wordpress.org pales in comparison to this site. I try to search through there whenever I am bored because I always find something useful. Just something to think about.

By: Jeff L.

Jeff L. — Sun, 15 Apr 2007 01:59:00 +0000

By: Mark Alves

Mark Alves — Sat, 14 Apr 2007 19:49:40 +0000

Derek and Aaron,

A tutorial series on using WordPress to create non-blog websites is at:
http://www.churchcommunicationspro.com/using-wordpress-to-run-church-websites-tutorial-series/

The posts discuss church websites, but most of the tips apply to any type of site.

By: Mark Alves

Mark Alves — Sat, 14 Apr 2007 19:49:00 +0000

Derek and Aaron,

A tutorial series on using WordPress to create non-blog websites is at:
http://www.churchcommunicationspro.com/using-wordpress-to-run-church-websites-tutorial-series/

The posts discuss church websites, but most of the tips apply to any type of site.

By: Anthony Baggett

Anthony Baggett — Sat, 14 Apr 2007 18:40:30 +0000

I agree after doing the whole “HTML” website thing. I’m trying to figure out the best way to use WP as an e-commerce site. There’s a plug-in or two out there for a shopping cart, but I haven’t gotten it to work correctly.

By: Anthony Baggett

Anthony Baggett — Sat, 14 Apr 2007 18:40:00 +0000

By: Martin Neumann

Martin Neumann — Sat, 14 Apr 2007 07:43:48 +0000

Great post Chris.

I’m with WordPress and I ain’t ever going back.

I used to be a heavy FrontPage user (don’t laugh!) way back but haven’t touched it in years.

WP and CMS is a topic I’d love to see discussed, dissected and solutions made to expand on WP with a CMS view.

I’ve been playing around with a WP install that looks like a newspaper layout with 4 clear section on the front page all sub-divided and presented by categories. There’s a lot of tweaking involved but it can be done.

By: Martin Neumann

Martin Neumann — Sat, 14 Apr 2007 07:43:00 +0000

Great post Chris.

I’m with WordPress and I ain’t ever going back.

I used to be a heavy FrontPage user (don’t laugh!) way back but haven’t touched it in years.

WP and CMS is a topic I’d love to see discussed, dissected and solutions made to expand on WP with a CMS view.

By: mark

mark — Fri, 13 Apr 2007 21:51:20 +0000

@Peter Gillberg: “I have been searching but can’t find any good examples of blogs that use wp for CMS.”

If you type “define:content management system” in Google it has:

system for the creation, modification, archiving and removal of information resources from an organised repository. Includes tools for publishing, format management, revision control, indexing, search and retrieval.

That’s about as good as definition as any other for CMS and that’s exactly what WordPress does. So while WordPress is well known for being a blogging platform, the reality is that it IS a content management system.

By: mark

mark — Fri, 13 Apr 2007 21:51:00 +0000

@Peter Gillberg: “I have been searching but can’t find any good examples of blogs that use wp for CMS.”

If you type “define:content management system” in Google it has:

By: Aaron

Aaron — Fri, 13 Apr 2007 19:39:44 +0000

As a web firm that offers both a CMS solution and blogs using WordPress, I think there are some very distinct differences. CMS (if the right one) allows for much more customization by our “geeks” that make the content management and site management even easier for a non-techy user. I do love WordPress, but past text, links and photo/graphic management you’re going to need some skills to do more, or hire the skills. CMS also allows for better structural management currently. But if we’re only talking about a 4 to 8 page site, I see where you’re coming from. I’ll be looking forward to Chris’s and Mark’s posts as it will be good to know more on WordPress’s full capabilities or limitations. Thanks!

By: Aaron

Aaron — Fri, 13 Apr 2007 19:39:00 +0000

By: Peter Gillberg - Software Marketing Secrets

Peter Gillberg - Software Marketing Secrets — Fri, 13 Apr 2007 19:30:52 +0000

Hello Chris,

Thanks for a great post as usual

And extemely timely because I was just looking into this today.

I have been searching but can’t find any good examples of blogs that use wp for CMS.

Do you have any examples of great sites that use wordpress, but where the daily blog posting isn’t the main point of the site?

By: Peter Gillberg - Software Mark

Peter Gillberg - Software Mark — Fri, 13 Apr 2007 19:30:00 +0000

Hello Chris,

Thanks for a great post as usual

And extemely timely because I was just looking into this today.

I have been searching but can’t find any good examples of blogs that use wp for CMS.

Do you have any examples of great sites that use wordpress, but where the daily blog posting isn’t the main point of the site?

By: Chris Garrett

Chris Garrett — Fri, 13 Apr 2007 16:43:16 +0000

Yeah write it up and I will link to it

By: Chris Garrett

Chris Garrett — Fri, 13 Apr 2007 16:43:00 +0000

Yeah write it up and I will link to it

By: mark

mark — Fri, 13 Apr 2007 16:42:20 +0000

hmmm, perhaps I too should write about using WordPress as a CMS since I have moded WordPress so much over at Search-This? Might be a fun write up…

mark

By: mark

mark — Fri, 13 Apr 2007 16:42:00 +0000

hmmm, perhaps I too should write about using WordPress as a CMS since I have moded WordPress so much over at Search-This? Might be a fun write up... mark

By: Jack

Jack — Fri, 13 Apr 2007 15:46:45 +0000

@Chris – I’d certainly be interested in hearing how to use WordPress as a more general CMS.

By: Jack

Jack — Fri, 13 Apr 2007 15:46:00 +0000

@Chris – I’d certainly be interested in hearing how to use WordPress as a more general CMS.