WordPress as a CMS
Wed. Feb, 2009 by admin
Content Management Systems (CMS) are becoming a necessary part of web development these days. It is very rare that we produce a website that is not wholly or in part based on a CMS.
A CMS allows the owner of the site to make updates to the content of the site themselves while reserving control over the design and coding to the web developer. If done correctly it saves everyone an enormous amount of time and effort. If done poorly…. it’s bad.
The trick when picking a CMS is to find the right mix of features for any particular client. A CMS can range from the exceedingly complex such as TYP03 and Drupal down through Joomla, Mambo and hosts of others to the extremely simple.
Our CMS of choice for many of our clients is WordPress. As you may know WordPress is a blogging platform used by millions of users. You can even sign up for your own free blog at wordpress.com.
What you may not know is that WordPress has evolved and continues to evolve into a fairly robust CMS which makes it a very attractive choice as the tool of choice for some websites. Here’s why -
- Very, very wide user base with wide range of skill levels. This means there is excellent access to information and support.
- A user interface that is often already familiar to many people due to its popularity and its origins in blogging.
- A basic structure that lends itself to modifications and extensions.
- An easily customizable look and feel which means we can apply any design we want to it.
- Support for permissions and user roles which means you can have multiple authors with restricted access to certain areas.
Wordpress is appropriate and I would argue ideal for many smaller websites due to its wide adoption and ease of use.