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Wordress hacks to use it as a CMS for any web site

webdesignerwall.com — Nick L.A. wrote some pretty cool hacks on how to modify wordpress themes and wordpress code to use it as a general CMS platform and not only as blogging platform. Tricks are easy to use for non developers.

Who dugg this? Made popular Oct 15, 2007

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  • FredFredrickson, on 10/22/2007, -3/+49They should have listed a hack that helps you correctly spell "Wordpress" in Digg titles.
  • championchap, on 10/16/2007, -2/+15Its the server, not the platform.
    Even a static HTML page can and will go down under a sudden surge of traffic from digg.
    Shared servers aren't meant for dedicated traffic.
  • markus941, on 10/16/2007, -3/+14Nice list of examples to use. And yes, Virginia, you can use WP as a CMS. Out of the box, it comes with a ton of features that a lot of other systems lack.
  • Cl1mh4224rd, on 10/16/2007, -1/+9I don't care what the WordPress website says; that's a damn lie. You may not need to know how to program a PHP app from scratch, but you sure as hell need to know basic programming: control logic, parameter passing, etc.
  • Cl1mh4224rd, on 10/16/2007, -1/+8Actually, Firefox doesn't recognize the word "wordpress" out-of-the-box. You'd have to add it to Fx's dictionary.
  • championchap, on 10/16/2007, -3/+9http://www.getfirefox.com
  • brownspank, on 11/05/2007, -0/+6...and decent hosting.
  • judicar, on 10/16/2007, -5/+10Wow, what a great idea. Hack a blogging suite that has the one of the worst db implemenations available and use it for a db-intensive application, this has success written all over it.
  • johnb10175, on 10/20/2007, -1/+6I've tried the all, Joomla, Drupal, Community Server, and the worst of the bunch, Ektron. WP is the best and coolest in terms of community and plugins.
  • latour, on 10/20/2007, -2/+72007 Open Source CMS Award Finalists

    Overall Winner Finalists:

    * CMS Made Simple
    * Drupal
    * e107
    * Joomla!
    * PHP-Fusion
  • Mizzike, on 10/16/2007, -7/+11Wordress? You mean Wordpress, right? How does an article with a blatant misspelling and train wreck of a headline like this make it to Digg's front page? I know I'll get dugg down for this, but what ever happened to proofreading ***** before you submit it?
  • pezholio, on 11/05/2007, -0/+3Dugg, but not for the content. The design of the site is amazing. Something a minnow like me can only aspire to :(
  • Otto, on 11/05/2007, -0/+3WP-Cache: Allows WordPress to cache dynamic pages as static ones. Reduces SQL queries to a tiny fraction of their total amount.

    But really, WordPress is pretty light on the number of queries. By default it's only making 10-15 per page load.
  • Atomic1fire, on 10/16/2007, -0/+3because while it is a blogging system you can bend the frontend to fool the end user
  • lonnieh, on 11/05/2007, -1/+4no, its the server that can't handle the traffic. every time i see someone bitching about wordpress after a page is dugg to death i want to kill a kitten.
  • vwvan, on 10/16/2007, -0/+3Wordress hacks to use it as a CMS for any web site.

    All your base are belong to us.
  • Weebs43, on 10/16/2007, -0/+2Because most CMS's are incredibly heavy and have tons of unecessary features. I like to have the basics, and then add on what I need. Not start with everything, and then remove what I don't need.
  • ccheath, on 10/16/2007, -0/+2depends on the traffic and the specs of the server
  • ers35, on 10/16/2007, -4/+6It's actually spelled "WordPress" if you wanted to be technical with the capitalization.
  • kablammo, on 10/16/2007, -8/+10Unfortunately, Digg has already shattered my faith in anything to do with Wordpress.
  • arkmtech, on 10/16/2007, -0/+2CMS Made Simple FTW. ( http://www.cmsmadesimple.org )

    I use it to run my own site, as well as those of nearly every client in the past year I've had, and it's as fast, efficient, secure, and reliable as it is... well... simple? ;-) Even former users of Plone & ExpressionEngine have shared with me that they're overall happier using CMS Made Simple to control & manage their sites and content flow.
  • senixon, on 10/16/2007, -0/+2There are plenty of high traffic website that are built on WP! Sites that fail due to high traffic aren't configured right. A simple wp_cache plug-in would go a long way, but if you enable mySql query caching this thing is as solid as it gets. [my 2 cents] Now weather it should be used as a CMS for a website is debatable, but many people done it successfully.
  • Otto, on 10/20/2007, -0/+2An amazing amount of shared hosting qualifies as "worst ever", in that case. Digg or slashdot effect will indeed take down a shared server serving only static html.
  • ers35, on 10/16/2007, -2/+3It's actually spelled "WordPress" if you wanted to be technical with the capitalization.
  • tarunx51, on 08/17/2008, -0/+1Chose the Theme Based On This Post

    Link - http://www.vevin.com/3-column-wordpress-themes-tem ...

    Hope u Like The Collection
  • affanjam, on 10/16/2007, -2/+3to handle traffic you have to tweak it a bit to handle the traffic
    examples:
    kevin smith's blog http://silentbobspeaks.com/
    err rosie's blog http://www.rosie.com/
    mark shuttleworth's blog http://www.markshuttleworth.com/
  • jkharris07, on 10/16/2007, -0/+1Dugg despite the typo.
  • Moby22, on 10/16/2007, -0/+1I would venture that Wordpress IS a CMS - just one that is tailored to blogging. What many call a "CMS" is really a CMS either without any additional functionality, or with additional, non-blog functionality.

    For example, it was a two-day operation for me to convert Wordpress into a news site, which many other CMS-type products can do with built-in skins for showing top stories and such. All I did was build my own skin with the additional of some conditional statements.

    It's all just semantics, in my opinion.
  • grantmc1, on 10/17/2007, -0/+1AWWW! the link to me to wordPress hacks, i can't find wordress hack any where :@

    WDW is an awesome site and this post does not disappoint!
  • NikosPsy2k, on 10/16/2007, -1/+2Wordpress has ton of plugins and a community wich provide unlimited help and tips, trick etc, so its worth imho to give it a try as a general CMS if possible.
  • nextbgates95, on 10/15/2007, -0/+1Yeah, I love to blog with wordress, but i suppose wordress is fine as a CMS.
  • inactive, on 10/15/2007, -0/+1Dugg for explaining the Custom Fields feature; I've been looking for a way to do this for the past week!
  • shadowspawn, on 10/15/2007, -0/+1I'm surprised I could read the article, that it didn't crash with >20 concurrent users.
  • HanSolo69, on 10/15/2007, -0/+1Does it help make it so more than 5 people can look at it before it crashes?
  • MSlash67, on 08/16/2008, -0/+0Great tutorial on wordpress as a CMS.
  • adiazar, on 05/21/2008, -0/+0I am trying to do it for:
    http://www.lovelycoupons.com/

    Thanks
  • FurbtasticMan, on 05/23/2008, -1/+1How easy is it to work with Wordpress? I am a relative newcomer to the whole web design thing and have struggled to get to grips with Dreamweaver. How easy would it be to convert my two sites to Wordpress?

    http://www.simplyfreeiphone.co.uk

    http://www.gadgets4nowt.co.uk

    Any ideas?
  • kennick01, on 04/20/2008, -0/+0This post is so informative for anyone wanting to improve their wordpress skills
  • lvlica, on 05/03/2008, -0/+0Am actually looking forward to being able to use wordpress let alone hack it...
  • beezer123, on 01/03/2009, -1/+1Wordpress is far too hard to install.

    :(

    http://www.a-free-ipod.com
  • Laurentvw, on 10/16/2007, -1/+1How come? Look at http://www.cjreport.com , I made it in Drupal, don't tell me it's that bad.... Drupal is the best CMS around imo, and yea I tried lots of others in the past.
  • AppleFreebies, on 03/25/2009, -0/+0Whats the advantages of wordpress?

    http://www.apple-freebies.com/
  • LSampaio, on 01/30/2008, -0/+0Very good examples!!, Thanks
  • phuquedifino, on 05/13/2009, -0/+0How easy is it to work with Wordpress? I am a relative newcomer to the whole web design thing and have struggled to get to grips with Dreamweaver. How easy would it be to convert my two sites to Wordpress?

    http://www.freeipodsandconsoles.co.uk

    http://www.freebieangel.com

    Any ideas?
  • garyl2k, on 10/01/2008, -1/+1Top post, I don't really have a CMS feel to my blog but you can see with a few tweaks you can get your blog to look like a normal standard site.

    http://www.freegifts4you.co.uk is my site, it's got a static page but that's great for me and my rankings in Google.
  • inactive, on 10/29/2008, -1/+1It wouldn't be too hard to convert your site to wordpress furb. I had my site, http://freeipodsetc.co.uk, as a wordpress site but then decided I wanted static pages.

    Once I changed it I wanted to change back as wordpress really is the perfect CMS.
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