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Thinking of WordPress as a CMS
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11:56 AM EDT 4/10/09
For anyone thinking about WordPress to run their website (not just a blog), here's something that might help. Blogs are nothing more than very simple content management systems and blog posts are nothing more than chunks of content.

By some very simple manipulations of a WordPress theme (you never touch the actual core of WordPress) you can use those blog posts in all sorts of ways. For example, a blog post could be a book listing and by manipulating your theme templates and style sheets, those book listings can look completely different than a blog post used as an FAQ entry.

When you start to think of WordPress that way, it's not a question of whether it can do the job, but what jobs do you want it to do.
RE: Thinking of WordPress as a CMS
4:33 PM EST 1/27/10 as a reply to George Plumley.
This is a great idea for a group! I am glad to see WordPress become popular in the Library community as a viable option for a CMS. Personally, I think Joomla's backend is clunky and Drupal has a steeper learning curve (for non-techies). On the other hand, WordPress fit our needs perfectly.

The theme for our site was professionally designed by a web development firm. We use "Pages" to display content on the site, instead of "Posts". The content and plug-ins were all uploaded and installed by me. The best part about WordPress, or any CMS, is the distribution of web editing responsibility. It frees up a lot of my time.

Also, we use Google Analytics for reporting. And, now there is a plug-in available that automatically embeds your Google Analytics script into your entire site.