WP for an ordinary website

  • cantthinkofanickname

    (@cantthinkofanickname)


    19 years, 2 months ago

    I am moving into CMS ‘driven’ websites. I have searched and analysed the available CMSs e.g. Joomla!, SCMS, Drupal, and they all fall a bit short for supporting accessibility in some way although pure HTML/CSS templates are becoming available.

    On the forums I mainly get the response that WP is really only for blogging (and the type of page layout that comes with that way of presentation). Is this true?

    Could I use WP for an ordinary website which may also have a section for visitors comments (for which I presume WP would be at home)?

    I would also need a HTML/CSS compliant and accessible design with a 2 column page that stretches. Anyone know of an open source template for this?

    My project is voluntary for a charity so I’m not into buying stuff.

    Thanks

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  • jetshack

    (@jetshack)

    19 years, 2 months ago

    If you’re wanting the ability to comment on a simple site then I think WP would be a good fit.

    There are a ton of themes to choose from and if none suits the bill out of the box they’re pretty easy to modify.

    you can look throguh a bunch of themes at wordpress.themes.net

    Bodhipaksa

    (@haecceity)

    19 years, 2 months ago

    The “Pages” feature of WordPress makes it ideal for setting up a “normal” website. You don’t have to use any of the blogging stuff at all. I’ve been working for some time on a new version of my main site at http://test.wildmind.org and it’s 90% static pages. The blog stuff is relegated to a subsection that I link to in the horizontal navigation, and it was an afterthought.

    The advantage of course of a CMS (as I’m sure you know) is that it’s so easy to set up and manage new material. There’s no tiresome manual adding of links every time you add a new page. WordPress is great for this. I love it!

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