Hey Sooz –
Sorry, haven’t been able to make it to the blogger meetup yet.. hope to at some point.
WordPress at its core is a CMS (that is, it manages content… not that it is *nuke). With Pages, you can easily make a tuned, online-editable site, and add some plugins to get more customized stuff. It’s really just a starting point. The main content you talk of is just that, content.
The trickier things like Registration might want a customized php page to handle that, given the complexities that might arise (and especially if it’s a paid conference!).
I’ve used WP for my main site (CHAITGEAR) for two years, and more recently used just pages (no posts) for my wedding-info site (which I’ve kept private, but had pages for various information, plugins to organize the site design around Pages as the base navigation, one page as a ‘guestbook’, and I’ve since added a post-wedding photos/slideshow flash control embedded in a Page as well…).
WP becomes a mechanism to ease certain things, plus a big bonus if you want a blog integrated anyway. But, it’s a means to an end — of which there are many in PHP. 😉
-d
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Sooz
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Thanks David and MichaelH for the info!
MichaelH: that list you noted seems to be mostly blogs. I would love to see websites that are more than blogs who use WordPress to power their entire website. I mentioned registration but that wouldn’t have to be handled by the WP website directly.
Googling for wordpress+cms returned some interesting stuff!
Good luck.
I use WordPress both for blogging and as an easy-to-use CMS.
Here’s a nice topical one for ya: http://www.easychristmas.org.uk/
Also I have created a wedding website: http://www.weddingcountdown.co.uk/
A guide to emigrating to New Zealand: http://www.emigratenz.co.uk/
Playstation 3 News: http://www.ps3info.co.uk/
Cheers,
Shaun
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Sooz
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MichaelH: Thanks for the reminder to use Google. I was going to check that out but was hoping to get direct recommendations from people. I did find this doing a Google search for “WordPress +CMS” which looks interesting! It’s a WP plugin to add additional CMS functionality to WordPress.
http://devcorner.georgievi.net/wp-plugins/baocms/
WordPress powers everything at http://jaredquinn.info
It powers my web design site: http://webjones.org
And our car club web site: http://zclubofhouston.com
Tne latter, especially, I don’t consider to be a blog.
I just put this site together for someone so they could edit and add pages/content easily enough. The e-commerce is handled by cube cart, as it was easiest to integrate with the design, and I couldn’t get either of the two WP oriented options to work.
http://www.yesterdazevintage.com
Just adding my site to the list.
http://johnhorneguitar.com
Is all static pages execpt for the front page which has timely updates and reminders as well as some general blogging.
I use WordPress for my main design website at TeliDesign.
I’ve also set it up for a few clients as their main CMS – most notable are Actors Info Booth (mental note, I need to update that site), and Step by Step Fundraising.
Good luck convincing your conference 🙂
I use WordPress to drive my entire lab/teaching site:
http://wolverton.owu.edu/lab/
Much of the content is page-driven, and I’m using the Static Front Page plugin up front. The only “blogish” content is in my ‘Thoughts’ category. It’s so flexible and malleable, I love it.
I’ve used WordPress for a couple of sites so far:
http://www.brandbuilder.dk
http://www.siscon.dk
