{"id":222,"date":"2008-04-12T23:43:24","date_gmt":"2008-04-13T07:43:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.evardsson.com\/blog\/2008\/04\/12\/wordpress-as-a-psuedo-cms\/"},"modified":"2008-04-12T23:43:24","modified_gmt":"2008-04-13T07:43:24","slug":"wordpress-as-a-psuedo-cms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.evardsson.com\/blog\/2008\/04\/12\/wordpress-as-a-psuedo-cms\/","title":{"rendered":"WordPress as a psuedo-CMS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I just finished moving <a href=\"http:\/\/www.talkingfox.com\">my wife&#8217;s art site<\/a> completely to <a href=\"http:\/\/wordpress.org\/\">WordPress<\/a>. 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).<\/p>\n<p>The plugins I chose to meet her needs are: <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Akismet (of course): Spam Filter (now a default with WP installs)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/wordpress.org\/extend\/plugins\/flexible-upload\/\">Flexible Upload<\/a>: Picture Uploader which auto-creates thumbnails and supports Light-box like plugins.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/wordpress.org\/extend\/plugins\/google-sitemap-generator\/\">Google XML Sitemaps<\/a>: if you don&#8217;t know what that is check out <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/webmasters\/tools\/\">Google&#8217;s Web Master tools<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/wordpress.org\/extend\/plugins\/wp-postviews-plus\/\">WP-PostViews Plus<\/a>: Not the most straight-forward plugin, but she did want some counter tracking.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/wordpress.org\/extend\/plugins\/lightbox-2\/\">Lightbox 2<\/a>:  Provides Lightbox functionality for WordPress. And with the Flexible Upload plugin she doesn&#8217;t have to hand code any of it or write any image links with rel tags.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n<div style=\"visibility: hidden;\" title=\"1208063682014\" id=\"_booktextmark_tab_id_\"><\/div>\n<p>Technorati Tags: <a class=\"performancingtags\" href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/WordPress\" rel=\"tag\">WordPress<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just finished moving my wife&#8217;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 &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[60],"tags":[197],"class_list":["post-222","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-wordpress","tag-wordpress"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pxT7i-3A","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.evardsson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.evardsson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.evardsson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.evardsson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.evardsson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=222"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.evardsson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.evardsson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=222"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.evardsson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=222"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.evardsson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=222"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}