Title: WordPress for a tutorial site?
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# WordPress for a tutorial site?

 *  [robynh](https://wordpress.org/support/users/robynh/)
 * (@robynh)
 * [16 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-for-a-tutorial-site/)
 * [http://robynhuffaker.com/sculptblend/](http://robynhuffaker.com/sculptblend/)
 * This is a tutorial site that I’ve been working on for a year or so. I’ve gotten
   to the point where I want to expand on it with other tutorials and a blog, but
   I kinda want to keep all of it looking the same so I decided to try using WordPress,
   because I heard people have used it for both blogging and as a CMS.
 * I’ve been dinking around with it for about a week, but I keep on running into
   issues. I tried writing the tutorials as posts to begin with, but it doesn’t 
   make any sense for the tutorials to be listed by date. Especially not the starter
   tutorials that need to be read from first to last. It also doesn’t make sense
   to have all the intermediate and advanced tutorials clumped together on a single
   page.
 * So then I tried writing the tutorials as pages instead. I got a theme that works
   relatively well for it, but then I find that I can’t categorize the tutorials.
   I can make a hierarchy of pages, but… while I can see a use for making a main
   Tutorials page, I can’t see the sense in making a separate page for ‘Starter 
   Tutorials’. What would I put there besides just… links to each tutorial? That
   seems redundant.
 * Am I looking at this the wrong way? Is there a better route to organize this?
   Or am I trying to use WordPress for something it just ain’t designed to do?

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 *  [Roy](https://wordpress.org/support/users/gangleri/)
 * (@gangleri)
 * [16 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-for-a-tutorial-site/#post-1396986)
 * WP can be used more to be a CMS, but not with its default setup. Just thinking
   out loud, I’d make the tutorials as posts with categories (and tags) to group
   them, but not display them in the default, chronological way. I use a plugin 
   that creates a page that gives all my posts in alphabetical order and that can
   be set as ‘landing page’, that could be something. A bit more coding it would
   require to make the index display give posts or certain categories, so the first
   five tuturials for beginners, the first five for advanced. This is possible, 
   but will require some coding. Look around a bit for a theme that (claims to) 
   give CMS functionality. It will be coded differently from most themes, but there
   is a growing number of these CMS-themes available.
    [http://wordpress.org/extend/themes/search.php?q=cms](http://wordpress.org/extend/themes/search.php?q=cms)
 * Also there are plugins that add some CMS functionality, but mostly for the backend:
   
   [http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/search.php?q=cms&sort=](http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/search.php?q=cms&sort=)

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