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WordPress is a cms first and foremost. edit: lol today I learned cms != blog
by austinpray 9y ago
WordPress is a cms first and foremost.
edit: lol today I learned cms != blog
- tyingq 9y agoI'd say "sort of". It does support custom field types and custom post types. But you have to either write code, or use some 3rd party plugin to manage/use them.
- bybjorn 9y agoWhy do you then still get a blog when you install it?
- hobofan 9y agoLegacy behavior nobody bothered to update ;)
- zaphar 9y agoNo. WordPress is a blogging platform. A CMS is much more than that. If you need a CMS you probably want something more than WordPress.
- SippinLean 9y agoHave you used it recently? What you say was true 10 years ago, but what features does it lack compared to a "true" CMS today? I've built several high-traffic e-commerce sites using it, none of them had a blog. Compared to something like Drupal it's a total pleasure to use.
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- mrkrab 9y agoThat's like saying WordPress is a forum because you can install bbPress.
- SippinLean 9y agoThat's like saying WordPress is a great CMS to manage the content for your forum, using a plethora of great plugins or custom post types to output the content in a forum-like view.
- marpstar 9y agoSame here, I built and oversee 3 WordPress online stores that together do more than $1m/month during peak season (summer). WordPress has the ability for pages as well as posts (along with versioning of those items). User account management with permissions. Custom fields. What exactly does "true CMS" mean? And I'd argue the easiest-to-use admin area out there, or so my clients lead me to believe.
- dangerface 9y agoI have moved wordpress stores to other e-commerce platforms and seen an instant improvement in sales. Thats why wordpress is a blog and not a CMS because the only content it handles well are blog posts and basic wall of text pages. A CMS will not limit or put a definition on the content it manages, thats up to you. As an example, how complicated would it be to model the content of a store, store manager and then the relation ships between them, this is basic stuff for any other CMS. If you don't show your clients anything else they will think its great. My clients say the same thing about wordpress, until they see something else then they wonder why anyone uses wordpress.
- SippinLean 9y ago>to other e-commerce platforms Which platforms? What was different about them that made them better than WP? >because the only content it handles well are blog posts and basic wall of text pages Unless you use post types. Now since 4.7 post types can apply to everything, including page templates. Have you tried using this and failed before you made your comment?
- jameskanestl 9y agoI think this is an outdated perspective. You can easily train the WordPress CMS to handle any content you could possibly want to throw at it, including your above example (which would take like ten minutes, tbh), for sure. Took a bit of time to figure out all the moving pieces, but WP is a fully mature CMS at this point. Interested in what other CMS's you would recommend? You aren't being very specific.
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- nodex-alex 9y agoHi Traffic lmao, I'd love to know what you consider High Traffic, what you thihnk WP can actually handle on not so moderate hardware and what your server bills are per month to serve slow and potentially insecure websites....
- paulcole 9y ago>A CMS is much more than that. Can you explain?
- dangerface 9y agowordpress.org says its a blog in the title, it's the first word.
- claudiulodro 9y agoHaha and what's the last word? "Blog Tool, Publishing Platform, and CMS" WordPress is a flexible, multipurpose software platform.