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Using WordPress as a CMS — Wordcamp Utah

September 27th, 2008 | Posted in WordPress 9 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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» WordCamp Utah 2008 - Rickety says:

September 27, 2008 at 9:32 pm

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Andrey says:

September 28, 2008 at 12:17 pm

I didn’t think before that the church expand it’s activity in the Internet

kurye says:

December 1, 2008 at 4:43 am

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making money from your blog says:

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.

Central PA Weddng Photographer says:

February 12, 2009 at 3:01 pm

My entire photography website is run on Wordpress. A lot of other photography websites use 100% Flash, but I hate waiting for sites to load. I’ve tried Drupal and Joomla for other websites but never even considered using them for mine. Once I tried Wordpress, I knew it was a perfect fit for me!