Is WordPress just for blogging ?
You’re in a meeting with a client and he/she asks you to do an online project that wordpress can easily fulfill, for example as a content management system. So you say: “WordPress can do that. Let’s use it for this project.” But your clients face contorts into a frown and says: “WordPress is for blogging. We dont want to use that!”
Anybody else got this reaction from your clients? Is WordPress really just for blogging?
I, for one, beg to differ. WordPress is simply too powerful and extendable to be limited to one single task. And there is proof out there right now, behold:
- WordPress Jobs uses wordpress to manage job listings
- WordPress can also act as a contact manager
I’m not even mentioning how WordPress acts as a CMS for such companies as Yahoo!, General Motors and others.
Thoughts, anyone?
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True! I got the same arched eyebrows when I said WordPress can easily do the task they’re asking me of.
A friend told me once, WordPress is a great software that is greatly underused, and I agree with him. WordPress has everything laid down pat. It hardly needs more coding in order for it to handle a different kind of task.
Wordpress is powerful if used wisely.
Add Scriblio (http://about.scriblio.net) to WordPress 2.3.1 and up and you can utilize MARC records for an OPAC.
Wordpress can act as a gallery too, somebody develop a theme. I made some experiment on the theme and it works fine. Can be found at http://wallpapers.affiliatecrunch.com
As to forum, wordpress can be awesome too. Take a look at this plugin for wordpress, http://www.stuff.yellowswordfish.com/simple-forum/
All in all wordpress is great piece of open source script.