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

cmsnewsman — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 07:23:29 -0000

I somewhat disagree. With the right plugins, WordPress is better than most CMS systems

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

arickmann — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 12:20:22 -0000

I haven't and I can't find it. Have you got a link for it?

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

James — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 10:51:18 -0000

For menu control have you tried PageMashup?

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

Jamie Le Souef — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 00:31:45 -0000

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 :)

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

arickmann — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 14:22:18 -0000

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.

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

DameryWorld — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 13:31:00 -0000

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.