WordPress

WordPress as a psuedo-CMS

I just finished moving my wife’s art site completely to WordPress. She recently asked if I could add a blog to her site, and since I knew that she also wanted the ability to modify someof her content from time to time, I decided to completely move her site to WordPress. It is not as full-featured as a full Content Management System (CMS), but it is also much more light-weight and supports all the things she wants to do (with a few plugins, of course).

The plugins I chose to meet her needs are:

  • Akismet (of course): Spam Filter (now a default with WP installs)
  • Flexible Upload: Picture Uploader which auto-creates thumbnails and supports Light-box like plugins.
  • Google XML Sitemaps: if you don’t know what that is check out Google’s Web Master tools.
  • WP-PostViews Plus: Not the most straight-forward plugin, but she did want some counter tracking.
  • Lightbox 2: Provides Lightbox functionality for WordPress. And with the Flexible Upload plugin she doesn’t have to hand code any of it or write any image links with rel tags.

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