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1. knownoversight
   Member
   Posted 2 months ago #

   Hi,
   Obviously by the title you'll figure I'm new to Wordpress, and I'm sorry if this is a really dumb question...but can Wordpress be 'adapted' to be used as a CMS? (Content Management System..for those not aware what CMS stands for)..and how tricky this is to achieve?
   I see there are templates, themes etc, are these used for this purpose?

   To give you some background..
   What I'm wanting to do is to create a small online shop where from the home/index page I allow customers to choose either to view products by price (say £10-£40, £40-£80, £80-£120 etc) as well being able to view products by manufactorer and possibly a third category.
   Is this something Wordpress is capable of?
   Amazon.co.uk do something similar on their site..

2. brockangelo
   Member
   Posted 2 months ago #

   "Possible" is a word I would use cautiously here. WordPress is not designed to be a storefront. You may want to consider some of the e-commerce plugins, or installing a store application (like osCommerce) that sits next to a WordPress installation.

   http://yoursite.com/store/ (osCommerce installation)
   http://yoursite.com/ (WordPress installation)

3. samboll
   moderator
   Posted 2 months ago #

   very possible - I've set up many stores with wordpress and
   http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-e-commerce/

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