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What do Content Management Systems have that WordPress doesn’t?

Started by Andrew Rickmann · 8 months ago

Include WordPress in a list of content management solutions and the “WordPress aint a CMS” comments will surge forth as inevitably as water flows toward the sea. But what is it that makes one piece of software a Content Management System, and another a lowly blogging tool%3 ... Continue reading »

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DameryWorld
9 months ago

You are very close, Blogs are content and WordPress does a better than good job of managing them. However, full content Managing Systems do the things you ask and allow easy porting of various other content systems, such as Galleries, shopping carts, wiki's etc. Which is why I went away from trying to bend WordPress into a CMS and instead got a CMS that I can add WordPress to if I need a blog content tool. I am still tweaking my Cms site but it will soon have WordPress content as well as Blogger content all within my CMS. That is what a CMS should do...
also there will be other content and links on the site, BLOGS are not the only content on the web.

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Andrew Rickmann
9 months ago

So if I understand the distinction, a blog post (or date based entry let's say) is only one type of content, which is what a blogging platform deals with, and a real content management system can deal equally with every possible type of content?

Presumably these abilities would need to be native, i.e. not added afterwards with plugins, or add-ons? After all WordPress could be made to do these things with a plugin if you so desired.

I'm still not sure I really understand the difference.

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Jamie Le Souef
9 months ago

As an CMS i think wordpress is great out of the box (ok maybe needs a couple of plugins) but i have to agree with you on the menu control.. that needs attention.

But as far as SEO goes.. it's No 1 in my book :)

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