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WordPress turns 7. It was great then, it’s awesome now

Miriam Schwab | May 28, 2010 | 0 Comments
Our little baby is turning 7 – WordPress, my how you’ve grown! But the truth is, I remember when I first started using WordPress back in 2007, and it was pretty good then too. I think that shows how WordPress has strong foundations, even at the beginning. When I first started ... View Post

WordPress as CMS: 4 content block plugins with WYSIWYG editors

Rebecca Markowitz | February 23, 2010 | 6 Comments
We are constantly trying to find easier and better ways to create manageable blocks of content for clients. Widgets Widgets are only helpful up to a certain point since there isn't a great plugin  for a WYSIWYG visual editor that I'm aware of. The Rich Text Widget and WYSIWYG Text Widget are buggy and ... View Post

Happy birthday to WordPress Garage!

Miriam Schwab | February 22, 2008 | 16 Comments

Birthday Cake

Today, WordPress Garage turns one year old. Hasn't our little baby grown up fast? Blow out the candles... It is exactly one year ago today that I wrote my first post here. It was about Jerome's Keywords Plugin, which was a popular ... View Post

13 plugins that will make WordPress into a CMS

Miriam Schwab | January 14, 2008 | 33 Comments
Recently I posted about why I think WordPress is a CMS. This led to a pretty interesting discussion in the comments on the topic, ... View Post

ZDNet says WordPress not clunky, but also not CMS

Miriam Schwab | December 21, 2007 | 20 Comments
Larry Dignan over at ZDNet writes about the media's relationship with CMS systems, particularly his own past experiences with custom-built CMS systems. He says that "when it comes to ease of use, a blog platform beats or [sic] average CMS hands down." So he ... View Post

WordPress challenge: getting class current_page_item to work when home page is not blog

Miriam Schwab | December 5, 2007 | 18 Comments
Sorry for the confusing title, but there is an issue that we face over and over when using WordPress as a CMS, and have not been able to solve. When we are using WordPress as a CMS, our Blog page doesn't pick up the current_page_item class and ... View Post

Relooking at the Page Links To Plugin

Miriam Schwab | June 21, 2007 | 8 Comments
Since I discovered the Page Links To plugin, it's become one of the plugins that I use most on my sites, particularly those where I'm using WordPress to create a CMS. I've reviewed it already (see the review here), but it seems that ... View Post

WordPress Dashboard Editor

| March 13, 2007 | 0 Comments
This is something I'm definitely going to use on client sites.
This plugin allows you to add whatever you want to the Dashboard through PHP and HTML and allows you to even add Sidebar Widgets. You may also wipe the entire dashboard or individually remove some of the more irritating sections like the Dev news,
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It says a lot for WordPress

Miriam Schwab | February 22, 2007 | 0 Comments
Christian Montoya over at the Montoya Herald says he understands why many web developers use WordPress as a CMS system instead of the many other systems that are not blogging platforms, but CMS systems themselves.
All of these CMS’s have rather complicated administration interfaces, tend to be difficult to theme, and
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