WordPress Tip: Using WordPress as a CMS — Wordcamp Utah

September 27th, 2008 | Posted in blog 12 Comments »

Richard Miller presented on “Using WordPress as a CMS” at Wordcamp Utah today.

Richard works for the More Good Foundation, whose mission is to help LDS church members share their beliefs online. The More Good Foundation has migrated 40+ websites from Dreamweaver to WordPress, and now manages 150 WordPress sites. In addition to his work with the More Good Foundation, Richard is also the author of the What Would Seth Godin Do plugin.

Richard says a CMS (content management system) provides separation of code and content, and allows non-technical users to publish and update the content. The More Good Foundation chose WordPress rather than Drupal or Joomla because WordPress is easy to use, extensible, and has an excellent community.

When using WordPress as a CMS, one of the biggest questions you face is whether to use pages or posts for your content. Pages provide parent/child hierarchies, but don’t provide RSS or offline publishing. Posts appear in chronological order (which you can tweak), but don’t provide hierarchical arrangement. You can, however, organize the post categories into hierarchies.

Richard showed some examples of WordPress CMS sites:

There’s no set way to use WordPress as a CMS. You can use all posts, all pages, or a mix of the two. Here’s another list of sites using WordPress as a CMS.

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February 11, 2009 at 2:06 am

I think it is wonderful what Mr. Miller is doing. I also would like to thank him for all his efforts. I have now switched over to word press and really like the way it is set up. I am just not sure on using word press as a CMS though. Even if I were to use it as a CMS I am not sure if I could decide which to go with pages or posts. Thanks so much for all the insight.

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Jewel says:

February 15, 2009 at 7:34 pm

I also once considered using wordpress as a cms and because of the same reason, I give up.

Evan says:

April 16, 2009 at 6:52 pm

I love using wordpress I am very non technical and have never ran into any problems using it. Almost as easy as using blogger.

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