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By: 4 Ways to Defy the Average WordPress Theme | DazzlinDonna

4 Ways to Defy the Average WordPress Theme | DazzlinDonna — Tue, 14 Jun 2011 17:10:27 +0000

[...] site could be spotted a mile away with 10 blog posts flowing down a front page and a sidebar. WordPress now functions more like a traditional CMS out of the box, but theme developers are creating WordPress themes with more dynamic and rich front [...]

By: Keith Davis

Keith Davis — Sun, 22 May 2011 21:23:13 +0000

Hi Donna
Guess I use WordPress as a traditional site with a blog rather than just a blog.

That’s a great set of instructions you’ve produced or as an alternative, you can find a page based WordPress Theme.

My site is page based and it makes a great CMS.
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By: Paulius Rasytinis

Paulius Rasytinis — Thu, 24 Mar 2011 13:19:24 +0000

I guess there still a significant amount of people thinking that WordPress is not suitable for anything else apart personal blog. I bet they haven’t seen how powerful WordPress themes are nowadays

However, I can imagine how hard it might be to start learning about WordPress itself and get additional bunch of features for individual theme, so it’s great you wrote this simple tutorial encouraging people to take a second thought about WordPress and its practice.
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By: Brad Fitz

Brad Fitz — Wed, 16 Feb 2011 22:43:51 +0000

This is a great guide, thanks for sharing. I wish I knew about permalinks before I started using Wordpres as my CMS. I think I lost a ton of search engine traffic when I changed them to be more seo friendly.

This is the first I’ve heard of Easy WP Installer as well, so thanks for the link to that too.
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By: Donna

Donna — Sun, 13 Feb 2011 15:24:48 +0000

Right. And certainly, WP has its limitations, so complex sites may need to consider another CMS. I definitely agree with that. I’m just probably never going to agree that Joomla would be the next best choice. Drupal maybe, but Joomla is one that I’ve just never liked. Luckily, everyone gets to choose from a large array of possibilities, so we don’t have to agree.
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By: Fred Joseph

Fred Joseph — Sun, 13 Feb 2011 15:17:06 +0000

Of course it’s not without reason that vast majority of people choose wordpress over Joomla or Drupal. Ease of use & setup and other additional features makes wordpress the number one choice.
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By: Donna

Donna — Sun, 13 Feb 2011 13:41:53 +0000

I hate Joomla. Just sayin’.
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By: Fred Joseph

Fred Joseph — Sun, 13 Feb 2011 13:40:26 +0000

Although wordpress can be made to function as a cms, Joomla is probably better if you are thinking of building a complex cms site.

By: James

James — Thu, 03 Feb 2011 12:50:37 +0000

Hey Donna,
Great article. The idea of using WordPress as a CMS has been around for some time but the implementation was hindered by the functionality of WP.

I just had a quick scan through some of your posts and what, I think, would be a good article is to show users how to remove the date stamp from each post. This is something that shows up in the SERP’s and can put searchers off clicking your linke if it seems out of date.
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By: dave

dave — Fri, 22 Oct 2010 22:22:45 +0000

You can use WordPress for small sites.. however nothing more than that as it’s simply not a framework meant to manage heavy duty sites that are not blog based & require a lot of custom components & functions. I’ll recommend Drupal , Typo3 or Joomla if you are to do anything beyond basic.

PS : I really love Drupal & Typo3 . Deffo worth it.