Your article is very well written. It was a huge help to me. I will continue to use that article as I make other sites that use WP for a CMS.

I will change the link to your article in my post.

Jon

Thanks for mentioning my article! If some of your users got a 404 when they clicked thru to the tutorial, that’s because I changed the site I initially wrote the article on.

I actually was running the site on Joomla and I was having a few problems that made me actually scrap the whole CMS and go with WP for the entire site.

I think there are times when you use Joomla but often times it can be overkill! I also thin for small to small/medium sized sites, WP can be implemented and tweaked enough to fill most needs. WP does lack in the plugin departments such as a shopping cart and simple but good photo galleries. The biggest one is there is really no great option for WP for ecommerce.

I have integrated wordpress with withinweb.com’s paypal IPN shopping cart and it fits my needs. i think with a couple of days work, a really good plugin could be written to combine withinweb.com’s shopping cart with wordpress but i don’t have that kind of time now. you can see my integration at: pqdb.com/category/ready-to-go-sites/ if the IPN software was mine i would definitely integrate the 2 pieces of software.

anyway, your new site looks great! you’d never know that was blogging software. great job!

any for any readers who got a 404 with that link, here is an updated URL:
pqdb.com/wordpress-articles/using-wordpress-as-a-cms-content-management-system/

take care,
eric

For the people who I’m working with they need something more simple as far as the admin is concerned so that’s why I went with Wordpress. I’m more familiar with Wordpress also so that makes me want to stick with it more.