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By: vadepaysa

vadepaysa — Sun, 11 Apr 2010 02:54:44 +0000

Honestly, don’t do it.

DO NOT USE wordpress as a CMS. WordPress is excellent blogging engine and that’s about it.

I am writing this out of experience. I too was super excited about using WP as a CMS, because it was working so well on my blog. ALl the plugins, themes, awesome!

BUT, I did a terrible mistake when I decided to use WP as a CMS for a huge non-profit org.

I bravely installed WP thinking I will hack in anything I want, but,
they had such dynamic requirements to the page content and such complicated user access rules that every change they wanted meant hacking a plugin or tweaking php of my theme which took hours together.

This drove me INSANE!

And to my rescue, came my age old friend, Drupal.

Drupal is a CMS
WP IS NOT

WP is an amazing blog platform.

Please use caution, please learn from my painful experiences.

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By: Alex Denning

Alex Denning — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 21:07:13 +0000

The header.php file.

By: Steve

Steve — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 06:06:26 +0000

Hi,
Great post. I am completely new to WP – where do I put the code for the navbar?
Thanks,
S

By: Alex Denning

Alex Denning — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 18:48:27 +0000

Jim,

Replied to your email which answers your question.

By: Jim Pohl

Jim Pohl — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 13:20:14 +0000

Hi Alex,

I’ve written a standard text in HTML. I’m looking to present it in a CMS. I haven’t
seen a book done that way. Might you know of one (or some).

Please look at my site. There is a lot of work there. The work needs to be “indices-sortable.”
Categories, I guess. Anyway I need advice and help.

Thanks, Jim Pohl

By: GreyGoose

GreyGoose — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 15:02:24 +0000

WordPress is an excellent blog builder, but if you want to create a website for your clients there’s an even better free tool called ModX – do all your design in your favourite web-editing tool, no php knowledge required, no cutting up the page and saving it as something else, just paste your HTML into the new template box within MOdX, with the right content commands etc, as per the supplied sample, upload your CSS and images and job done. Also in it’s favour, the default admin pages look like they’re aimed at adults not children.

By: hal9000

hal9000 — Wed, 06 May 2009 20:03:45 +0000

you need wordpress mu and buddypress . probs the best combo for that.

By: mediatechno

mediatechno — Mon, 27 Apr 2009 08:07:51 +0000

i think is very useful information . thank you