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I recently covered using WordPress to run a magazine or news website and bloghelper has gone a step further with a two part series (so far) on using WordPress as a CMS:

What is “Using WordPress as CMS”?: Generally, it means to use WordPress as a more conventional CMS, for less blog-ish content and presentation style. We’re looking at portfolio sites, news and magazine sites, article libraries, gallery sites, photologs, e-commerce sites, and many more. Thus, it means to push WP beyond what it was originally intended to do - publishing blogs - and into the realm of more robust and perhaps more complex CMSes, like Drupal and XOOPS, or into the realm of CMSes specialised in other fields, like Vivvo (for news and article sites) and WSN Gallery (for media galleries). Read More

How to Put Up a Custom Front Page in WordPress: By default, WordPress’ front page displays a reverse chronological list of your posts - with whatever extras you chose to add, e.g. Recent Comments, Flickr, etc. This is the normal blog index, and is normally the first thing you want to “get rid of” if you want to use WP as a more web site-ish CMS. For example, you might want your front page to display only an introduction and a sitemap, or just a simple Flash movie.

But at the same time, you might still want to have a normal blog index somewhere for the blog aspect of your web site. So, how do you get yourself a custom front page while still having the normal blog index alive and kicking somewhere else on site?. Read More

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