Comments on: ZDNet says WordPress not clunky, but also not CMS

By: 13 plugins that will make WordPress into a CMS : WP Garage

13 plugins that will make WordPress into a CMS : WP Garage — Thu, 08 Jul 2010 15:12:26 +0000

[...] I posted about why I think WordPress is a CMS. This led to a pretty interesting discussion in the comments on the topic, but it was [...]

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By: 10 plugins that will make WordPress into a CMS | Wordpress Garage

10 plugins that will make WordPress into a CMS | Wordpress Garage — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 15:11:41 +0000

[...] I posted about why I think WordPress is a CMS. This led to a pretty interesting discussion in the comments on the topic, but it was [...]

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Open Source mobile edition — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 14:39:23 +0000

[...] Also, when our own Dennis Howlett learned of last year’s decision, he told Larry Dignan WordPress was not a CMS at all. Larry then corrected his own post to note that ZDNet, which runs WordPress, also runs a separate [...]

By: Dalton

Dalton — Mon, 07 Jan 2008 22:39:59 +0000

Hi there, I just wanted to chime in as I just recently launched a decent sized site using Wordpress as the CMS. We went with Wordpress because I'm familiar with it, it was running some of the site functions already, and it's generally pretty easy to use. It is indeed a very flexible platform. In my experience with this site, however, I don’t think Wordpress is quite ready for primetime in regards to anything more than basic CMS functions. We came upon a few problems during implementation that required a lot of work-arounds, and even one or two serious bugs that haven’t really been adressed yet. We're missing features that you might find on a more fully-featured CMS, like revision history, true workflow and moderation, etc. Some of these have been attempted via plugins, but they're not really there yet. All in all it was a learning experience and Wordpress has come a long way in a very short time. I just have to say that anyone thinking of putting together a site of any significant size should definitely weigh the pros and cons before deciding on Wordpress.

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Darren Hoyt Dot Com » Use Body ID/Class to Control Wordpress Page Elements — Mon, 24 Dec 2007 03:20:34 +0000

[...] me, this bit of code (which I wish came default) is another link in the chain toward exploiting Wordpress’s potential as a CMS. Posted in CSS, Wordpress, Code on December 23rd, [...]

By: Ben Tremblay

Ben Tremblay — Sun, 23 Dec 2007 16:27:48 +0000

It seems most of the discussion on this topic arises out of people’s direct experience: those who’ve had some good experience with a group blog running WordPress are likely to call it CMS while folk who might have rolled out a Drupal install will quite confidently say No Way!

So “user experience” comes up … and rightly so, I’d say. Because that, for me, is the bottom line. But that user experience is determined largely by expectations; if WordPress is seen as failing to deliver like it was expected to deliber what it was never designed to do. Which, of course, is fair enough: it’s meant to be a blogging platform. I’d say that even WordPress MultiUser isn’t meant to be a CMS. What intrigues me: better to use WordPress in conjunction with something like Drupal? or better to push WPMU towards a bigger feature set?

@Miriam (Hello!) No better example of how user experience rules than your “have become “accustomed to putting up with guff.”” … I’d suggest that’s precisely the case. What really caught me with your “I find it much easier to write posts in Windows Live Editor, so I don’t use the WordPress editor much, just for tweaking drafts before publication.” is that this is just where the editor fails me: I can easily write an item in the WYSIWYG view, but if I make adjustments on the source then I’m likely to encounter all sorts of wierdness: it’s precisely in the “tweak” phase that I find myself contradicted. But I don’t want to distract this thread; with respect I’ll invite those interested by this to visit my wiki page in codex.wordpress.

cheers

By: Ryan

Ryan — Sun, 23 Dec 2007 11:50:41 +0000

Oops, I missed the bit about it being run on WordPress until recently.

By: Miriam Schwab

Miriam Schwab — Sun, 23 Dec 2007 11:12:34 +0000

Ryan – as I said about Seeking Alpha: it was run on WP until recently. A few months ago they did a major overhaul and built their own system.

And yes, I do have inside info on that site. It was founded by Israelis and many of the writers are located in Israel and I know them.

By: Ryan

Ryan — Sun, 23 Dec 2007 11:01:56 +0000

Miriam – How do you know that http://seekingalpha.com/ is a WordPress site? There’s no /wp-admin/ folder and no mention on WordPress anywhere in their code, although both are fairly easy to remove, so that doesn’t prove it isn’t runing on WordPress. It certainly could be created with WordPress, I’m just wondering how you know. Do you have inside info?