A couple of years ago if I’d said WordPress would make a great CMS, you’d have probably thought I was totally mad! These day however, when you need a simple CMS WordPress is a brilliant option. In this post I’m going to show you how to make your wordpress CMS even better with some simple bits of code and some not so simple plugins.
Customising the navbar
First thing we can do is display pages on the navbar instead of categories. We can do that with the following code, creating an ordered list:
But you won’t always want to display all your pages, so you can be picky and exclude certain pages by finding their IDs:
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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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Hi,
Great post. I am completely new to WP – where do I put the code for the navbar?
Thanks,
S
The header.php file.
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
Jim,
Replied to your email which answers your question.
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.
i think is very useful information . thank you
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Thanks for this post. I love using WordPress as a CMS. I haven't had much luck with Role Manager though, didn't seem to work right.
I use WordPress as a CMS for many of my clients. Works great. With the proper set of plugins you should have no problem.
Interesting post, thanks.
I really need to get my head around the role management in WP. I have an art group site that runs on Textpattern and I'd love to move over to WP and allow members to take care of their own pages.
nice post… thanks..
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Nice post! You've got some great tips here. I've set up blogs in WordPress and have been tossing around (but was still a little uncertain about) using it as a CMS for some of my website clients. Main question: If a client is going to have a WP blog as well as a site, would you suggest setting up their blog separately (and link to it) or incorporate it into their main WP website? If the later, how do you suggest managing this all within one WP site?