WordPress Blog vs. WordPress CMS

Well an egg laying wooly milk pig would be kinda useful 🙂

Hmm…
Serendipity, does that make me an eierlegende Wollmilchelch by any chance? 🙂
*hugs*

I’ve used WP as a CMS-oriented site for a while now. No complaints. Much more flexible than something like Mambo. Plugins are coming bit by bit, based on need…
-d

I’m using WP as a limited CMS on my site, and I agree to some extent with paticoflange. My index.php and CSS has been completely rewritten, and I’ve got almost a dozen plugins and hacks, some of which have been taken from other people, and some of which I’ve hacked myself.
I looked at a few CMS systems, but none of them seemed to give me exactly what I wanted, and the big advantage of WP is that it’s reasonably simple to learn to hack.
The reason for all the hacks and plugins is that I want to allow users who are not at all computer-savvy to post articles. I don’t want them to have to learn about the intricacies of (X)HTML, CSS, RSS, Pingbacks, Trackbacks, and the like, otherwise no-one will make any posts.
WP is working well for me, but I dread the day that WP1.3 is released – upgrading is going to be a nightmare!

heh… life is a mess mate… people lose common sense in the maze of technology.

Sushubh wrote:

just a question… if i dont use WP as a blog, am i morally misusing WP? :O)

Only if you are touching it in places where you shouldn’t and in ways that make WP feel uncomfortable. ;P
I disagree about the blurring of CMS and Blogs. They server two distinctly different needs. I have another site all about development (warning shamelss plug at DeveloperKB.com and I would NEVER for a moment consider something like WP to run. A CMS has to be much more powerful than this. There’s more to it than “posting articles” there’s user management, communications, and things like that. Now, WP is easy to manipulate, and easy to learn, so I see the apeal in using for something like a CMS, but one thing I’ve learned over the past years, is that just because you can do something doesn’t mean you should do it.
TG

A ‘CMS’ “has to be” whatever the user needs it to be. 😉
Certainly, there are enough pieces of the puzzle available to technical WP folks to use it as a ‘full blown’ CMS. For the average user, it’s a ‘CMS-lite’ solution.
Content Management is overused… Any system that manages simple input and display of content is a kind of CMS. I’ve heard of corporations using blogs for internal CMS systems, just because they are easier/simpler. Again, depends wholly upon the needs of the user.
-d

I think this is the part that Root was questioning:

The reason for all the hacks and plugins is that I want to allow users who are not at all computer-savvy to post articles. I don’t want them to have to learn about the intricacies of (X)HTML, CSS, RSS, Pingbacks, Trackbacks, and the like, otherwise no-one will make any posts.

David – I see your point about CMS’s being what ever the user needs them to be, and in that definition WP is a CMS…. but then so is Word, and Visiual Studio for that matter then.
TG