This is not very blog like:
http://moneyterms.co.uk
The theme has been customised, there are a couple of useful plugins (related posts and the_excerpt_reloaded) other than that it is a fairly standard install.
My site! (it’s the link from my profile name) all the pages in “more” are run from wordpress.
It uses the Page function of wordpress, but that’s a custom template, and there’s a couple of hacks things like .htaccess.
I have one… but it’s not public yet 😉
Have also used WP as a News CMS on a Flash site at http://www.thirdeyedesign.co.uk/
http://www.shakespeare-oxford.com/ – Combination of posts, categories, Pages, with custom templates (both for categories and Pages).
my site is pretty unblog-like: http://www.coha.org
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yeleek
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Maerk – Thats the sort of thing i’m looking for i.e. the use of pages instead of posts. I too would be looking at having a news section which would use the traditional ‘post’ format.
One question – how do you get the front page to only show the latest news item?
Thanks
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yeleek
(@yeleek)
Moshu/VSP – Thanks those are good examples. This wordpress/cms will actually be for a local charity anyway. Would want to create a plain template… What did you guys do? Start with a new one? Or ‘butcher’ an existing one?
3Stripe – v.nice!
Thanks guys!
Butchering an existing one is a lot easier than starting from scratch.
I’d agree with that. Maybe keep the php files from the theme, but delete all of the css… if you’re up for the challenge…
Here are two other good WordPress-non-Blogs from another Thread
mudsugar.com
surfreportrock.com
personally, i’d recommend making the header and CSS files from scratch, and then tweaking the other template files to your liking. at least that’s what I did.
One question – how do you get the front page to only show the latest news item?
you can use Custom String plugin or the query_posts template tag
With my very first theme I started with an existing one which had a layout quite close to what I wanted.
(just for the accuracy: themes are made up of several template files!)
I use wordpress as CMS for these two websites:
http://www.imcv.com.au
http://www.miisonline.org
