Title: CMS Capabilities?
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# CMS Capabilities?

 *  [1webmind](https://wordpress.org/support/users/1webmind/)
 * (@1webmind)
 * [17 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cms-capabilities/)
 * I am more interested in the CMS capabilities of WordPress than the blogging component.
   I want to create an article directory and be able to post articles directly to
   categories without posting to the blog. Or if I do post to the blog, is there
   a way to archive articles immediately, whenever I want, instead of every week
   or month? Is there a plugin that will give me these abilities? I can pay someone
   who can help me set this up. Thanks!!!

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 *  [MichaelH](https://wordpress.org/support/users/michaelh/)
 * (@michaelh)
 * [17 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cms-capabilities/#post-944558)
 * No plugin necessary. Just make a static page your front page (see [Administration](http://codex.wordpress.org/Administration_Panels)
   > [Settings](http://codex.wordpress.org/Administration_Panels#Reading) > [Reading](http://codex.wordpress.org/Settings_Reading_SubPanel)).
 * Don’t be confused by what an archive is–it is just a generated display of your
   posts at that moment. You don’t do anything to create the archive, that’s an 
   automatic thing WordPress does for you. Usually, archives are date, category,
   tag, or author, based.
 * Resources:
    [WordPress Semantics](http://codex.wordpress.org/WordPress_Semantics)
 *  [garethprinciplefirstcouk](https://wordpress.org/support/users/garethprinciplefirstcouk/)
 * (@garethprinciplefirstcouk)
 * [16 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cms-capabilities/#post-944986)
 * Hi Michael, I am currently developing a website, using a design company to build
   it for my company Principle First. I have asked them to develop this in wordpress,
   because I see the value of continuous updates rather than going with a cms system.
   They have come back to me today after 3 months of work to tell me that they want
   to start again using another cms. They have tried de activating plug ins and 
   they are not happy with the cache plugin or super cache plug in as they want 
   the experience for the first time visitor to be positive. Another problem is 
   the manipulation of the page structure, and they are worried that when putting
   more tools like pension calculators etc on the site things may slow advise down
   further. can you advise current site sitting on [http://www.principlefirst.co.uk/wp](http://www.principlefirst.co.uk/wp)

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 * Last reply from: [garethprinciplefirstcouk](https://wordpress.org/support/users/garethprinciplefirstcouk/)
 * Last activity: [16 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cms-capabilities/#post-944986)
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