Some Thoughts On WordPress
Earlier this month I wrote a post titled, “I Guess I’m Not A CMS Person.” In a comment on that post, Mike, a web designer/developer in Michigan, noted:
“I think it depends on the specifics of the project. As you are using wordpress for your blog I am guessing you feel similarly to an extent.”
Mike made a good point. I use WordPress for my blogs, but I didn’t think of WordPress as a CMS. However, WordPress is a CMS, and a very good one at that. In fact, based on my limited experience with Drupal, Joomla, and WordPress, if I were going to use a CMS to develop a static site, I think I would choose WordPress over the other two.
Personally, I don’t really like using WordPress as a CMS for larger sites, but for smaller ones (especially ones which require blog features) it does a pretty damn good job.
I love how easy it is to integrate a wordpress into an existing layout. The frontend code is extremely easy to work with, although I haven’t done too much with programming the backend (other than building a plugin or two).
I think ideally larger sites will use both a normal CMS and a wordpress. I need to do more research on how to integrate the wordpress authentication with other scripts.
@Renowned
I’d be interested in seeing what your view of why it is not suitable for ‘larger’ sites. Plenty of sites that I would view as large sites already use wordpress for the backend.
http://www.xxlmag.com/
http://www.nasa.gov/centers/ames/home/index.html
http://magazine.wsj.com/
http://markjaquith.wordpress.com/2008/08/18/us-government-agencies-using-wordpress/
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