Comments on: On Wordpress as The Ultimate CMS

By: Mellow

Mellow — Sun, 27 Sep 2009 20:46:36 +0000

Yeah often people use WordPress as a standard site CMS for those small jobs. Unfortunately the site is often not hardened and is left unmaintained after implementation.

I think WordPress should stick with what it’s good at. It definitely try to launch something new and fantastic though. It’s going to lose attention in the next few years if it cannot innovate.

By: Ryan A

Ryan A — Sat, 26 Sep 2009 22:01:33 +0000

Yes! You totally get it, the up/down notion I was trying to express. If WP wanted to do this they most definitely could, but it would entail a couple major steps. The first being a strip-down of all blogging-specific code (possibly leaving only the hooks and modules system). The second being adapting the stripped-down system into what we currently know as WordPress, but [important] having clear code/module separation from WP:CMS and WP:Blog.

^^ yay

By: usagijen

usagijen — Sat, 26 Sep 2009 18:37:27 +0000

You should’ve been our speaker, seriously.

I still don’t know much about CMS, but I know for a fact that Wordpress is not built to be a full-blown CMS. A more specific kind, as you’ve said, geared towards people who are primarily into blogging.

Making WP as the “Ultimate CMS” would entail working its way up from a specific to a general CMS platform — the ‘trickier’ transition @_@