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- MattLat, on 10/12/2007, -2/+11I've been using Wordpress as a CMS at my job for quite some time now. It really is a lot more powerful than people give it credit for.
- Konquest, on 10/12/2007, -2/+7Check www.wordpress.org for your answer.
- Jadey, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6Daimler-Chysler is using Wordpress to power its AskDrZ.com campaign.
- headzoo, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4I do a lot of work for people who want to use WordPress for other than blogging things. I don't know exactly what it is, but everyone wants WordPress to be an everything-and-the-kitchen-sink kind of software package. I guess people are already using it for their blogs, and they're comfortable with it, so they also want to use it for their business CMS.
- vdxc, on 09/29/2008, -2/+4I like WordPress as blogging software but for a CMS I think Joomla! or Drupal are much better solutions.
- macewan, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3I use it at work to track clients -
http://applications.linux.com/article.pl?sid=05/06/29/1617231&tid=115&tid=13&tid=11 - ZMAng, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Hi, author of the article here. Aiks, sorry to get your hopes up, but it's just the Digg Defender WordPress plugin at work here. It uses the Coral Cache (nyud.net:8080) to cache pages being targeted by high traffic sites, e.g. Digg, Slashdot, etc.
- apeiron, on 10/12/2007, -2/+4Thanks.
If the creator of the content had to rely on wordpress to host it, that would suck for a company.
i'm now a fan of wordpress. - brianvan, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3I like Wordpress as a general purpose CMS, for a lot of reasons. But mostly because I see how other popular blog platforms have tried to do the CMS thing, and they've failed horribly. Wordpress is probably something that could be tweaked enough to make it mostly usable, but simple enough such that most human end users could deal with the content management part.
That said, NO DIGG. What's the point of an article that says "You could use Wordpress for X, Y, Z..." and doesn't actually provide links to projects that help YOU implement these functions? Yes, there are plenty of dudes with all the time in the world to make custom mods to open source CMS software. But this is useless info without links to plugins, themes, etc. to make it happen... because otherwise there are other programs that can do each of these functions out of the box. - voidofmind, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2comes up fine for me. and to think that if digg did have that reason, you'd have burried wrongfully burried it.
- remiprev, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Trac is great, but it's not a CMS.
- cadavreexquis, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2WP, MT and Textpattern all work great as CMS... though they're sometimes hard to sell to your boss when he/she is getting a glitzy pitch from some firm with its own Complete Content Management Solution.
- GoodBrain, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1the C in CMS in this case is for "Content," not "Change."
Trac is a fine lightweight change management system that also has some content management features (the integrated wiki). It's not what I'd want for a CMS though. - Dracos, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2Wordpress is a blogging tool. It may appear to be a CMS, but it most definitely is not. No matter how many plugins you have installed.
I say this from experience. Five years working on CMSes, and recently launching a WP site where the client naively insisted they were doing a blog (and had no plan for anything), but during the 2 week development process it became painfully apparent that they weren't doing a blog and WP was not capable of doing what they wanted. - benb, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Forgot, if you want to check out some of the options out there http://www.opensourcecms.com/ is a good resource.
For a more traditional CMS system, I've found CMS Made Simple to be a good start. - ZMAng, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Author of the article here. There aren't any links to projects/guides/tutorials because this article was supposed to be an introduction to the theory behind using WP as a CMS, and is part of a longer series containing what you are looking for. Hopefully this got things clarified.
- ajcannon, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1What are the bells and whistles that you are looking for that WP doesn't have available with plugins? I agree that there might be a *few* things that WP can't do, but I am just wondering what it is that you are looking for that it can't do. For the huge majority of businesses and persons using WP as a CMS would be more than adequate.
- cmiz, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I guess off the top of my head I'd have to say that validation is the big one. There may be a plug-in for it (but I doubt it). If you've got a lot of people entering in a lot of information, it's really important that things are verified to be the correct types and in the correct format and whatnot. I do think WP is a good CMS in a lot of cases, but if you're a large company with serious needs, it's not going to be the same as a software solution from a specialized vendor, y'know?
On the other hand, it's not going to cost you $50,000 to use... - baloniaz, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2Did anyone notice, the link to this article slips "nyud.net:8080" into the URL?
It's the caching servers from awhile ago...
Since this is Kevin's post, could this be a taste of an upcoming feature? - Grimboy, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Trac is good for managing programs' development. If this is something you want to do then check it out, it is, in a way like wordpress for source control (easy to set up, yet still customizable). Apart from that, it isn't really relevant.
- ShaolinTiger, on 10/12/2007, -2/+3It's excellent, configurable, extendible has good functionality and easy templating, plugins, RSS built in and is very easy to search engine optimise!
I love Wordpress as a blog and a company CMS. - aforonda, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2I'm a bit tired of these claims that these blogging tools are full cms, at best they are only part of a true cms. Granted these systems are spendy but if your really interested to learn what a true cms can and should do check out solutions by Interwoven, Documentum, FileNet, Vignette. yeah yeah i know they are primarily "enterprise" solutions but they are what cms is.
- spyres, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2I think wordpress is a perfectly nice blogging solution. But if I've got other needs, I go for something like Drupal. Sure it's not for those looking for a "CMS for dummies", but it's a very flexible system that has a lot offer. Well worth checking out for those wanting a CMS who are frustrated with limitations of something wordpress for more advanced features. http://www.drupal.org
- jwxa, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2My first project with wordpress was using it more like a traditional CMS for a client.
The backend has a smaller learning curve for most folks, especially for content mangenment needs only. It's real easy to lock down permissions, create static pages and use the WP filters and tags to get what you want out of it. - cmiz, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1it's a very rudimentary system for content management and doesn't have nearly all of the bells and whistles of real systems... but for a quick and dirty (and free) CMS solution where you really don't need more than the basics, it's tough to beat. I've been using it as an organizational message board as well.
- OropheR, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1Thanks for this submitting this article, I was looking for the easiest CMS possible, and easy to install as I know nothing about Php. And I was tired to fight with CSS coding. Its better to be focused on the content, and on designing the content.
- ajcannon, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1I've been using wordpress for a few years now on my personal website, but I recently had the job of creating a website for the company that I work for. I chose to use wordpress as a CMS for this site and I can tell you that I couldn't be happier with it. There are SO MANY THINGS that you can do with wordpress and it is so easy to learn. Wordpress, imo, is one of the best open source PHP apps available hands down.
- jamison777, on 08/26/2009, -0/+0CMS? Not a CMS? This is an insanely tired argument.
http://websitelogic.net/articles/cms/is-wordpress- ... - brwalias, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I do use MT for a CMS/Blog solution as well. Don't forget to priase their support- fast and very helpful!
- benb, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1Wordpress does make a good CMS. I've used it for several blogs, and I'm working on setting a WP site up on our intranet as a helpdesk portal of sorts. The big selling points for me were the ease of install and use.
Textpattern and others are very good as well. There is no shortage of free/open CMS options out there, which is a good thing. - webapp, on 10/11/2007, -0/+0I think that WebAPP from http://www.web-app.net is more powerful than WP. Its the best open source CMS cgi portal out there.
- trevorturk, on 10/12/2007, -2/+2If you're interested in using Wordpress as a SECURE CMS, check out some plugins that I've made:
http://www.almosteffortless.com/wordpress/
1. Secure Files - Allows restriction of access to files (images, etc)
2. Force SSL - Redirect all traffic to https
3. Mass Edit Pages - Change page order and parentage quickly - ZephyrWest, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1Wordpress is a great CMS. It's robust plugin API let's you add almost any functionality you might need. However, it has some of the worst documentation I've ever read...
- blueZhift, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0I've been using WP for my personal and professional blogs. I used to use PHP-Nuke to set up portals as a volunteer for other groups, but there was always the hassle of training nontechnical people to use them when it was time for me to go. In the future I'll be using WordPress for this type of work since it is more than adequate and very easy for the average user to maintain.
- h2d2, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1I use Movabletype for all sorts of CMS sites (for example http://www.bollycat.com/ ). I find it so much easier that WP because it allows multiple sections (blogs) to be combined together in a single installation and it has a very active plugins development community.
- MikeJo, on 10/12/2007, -3/+2http://drupal.org/
- PsychoticCarp, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0I use Xoops with a Wordpress Module, I wanted some of the stuff that came with Xoops (downloads, polls, articles, ect.) But I was using a different blogging module until they came out with Wordpress as a Module.
- mkoby, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1I use Wordpress to handle my blog at http://www.mkoby.com and Drupal to handle my family's website at http://www.thekobys.com.
While I'm sure Wordpress would be more than capable of handling the family's website, I went with Drupal for it because it allowed for easier "community" feel as it were, so my friends and extended family can create accounts, upload pictures, and comment on posts. Wordpress seems to be better geared toward blogging and publication, but I do enjoy using it immensely and intergrated various elements has been nothing but easy through the use of plugins. - 5inline, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0I use Wordpress as a CMS for my personal site and most of my work sites. I usually just run custom queries on the front-end, but use WP to manage it all, which still allows the use of a lot of the nicer WP-plugins.
- flipper26, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0I am trying to use Wordpress as a cms but struggling? Any point me to some good tutorials for using wordpress as a cms.
- warmcat, on 10/12/2007, -4/+3Wordpress is very good; one of the things that surprised me most about setting one up was that it within hours many search bots had turned up for a look. It evidently announces your blog via wordpress somehow when you set it up. Coupled with automatic RSS generation it is also a CNS (Content Notification System) to Google and RSS subs, so using it as a generic CMS makes a lot of sense.
- v3xt0r, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1[Alex Trabec] No sir, that is incorrect. *next*
- v3xt0r, on 10/12/2007, -4/+2If this was jeopardy...
[Alex Trabec] "A form of idiocy used by unskilled bloggers who think they are web geniuses and want to make money using someone elses software"
[digg-lamor] What is “Using WordPress as CMS”?
[Alex Trabec] You've won the daily double!!! - Heilemann, on 10/12/2007, -4/+2The link returns a 404. It would be nice if Digg had a 'bury because of 404' feature :)
- brwalias, on 10/12/2007, -3/+0Aren't most companies and independent contractors using someone else's software for financial gain? I never knew blogging required much skill in the first place.
- apoorvs, on 10/12/2007, -4/+1You should see Trac: http://trac.edgewall.org/ is based on Subversion: http://subversion.tigris.org/
- lordatlas, on 10/12/2007, -8/+3For some laughs and a devil's advocate perspective on WordPress, check out http://wank.wordpress.com
- Bobski, on 10/12/2007, -9/+2---
- mathew_bug, on 10/12/2007, -10/+3You should try TextPattern. What a powerful yet tiny piece of software.
- talman, on 10/12/2007, -11/+2Yawn, I dugg another article same message. Couldn't be bothered to digg another. Is it that we digg the article and not the story, or shoud we all be shouting DUPE at Kevin Rose?
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