> Templating for example seems to be a hit or miss affair - you need to create
> a full theme to get any template changes happening and then what happens if
> you want one page to look different from the rest?

I don't think so. It's not hard at all, for example you can create
something like tmp.cat-5.php to give all posts under category 5 a
different look (I can't remember the exact naming convention, so don't
quote me on this example).

Wordpress is largely built around the concept of pages and posts.

A simple example of a Wordpress website that doesn't look like
Wordpress blog: http://wn.elim.org.nz/

On Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 12:44 PM, Paul Bennett <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi yeosteve,
>
> In my experience it's harder to get wordpress to behave *not* like a blog
> than it is to work with most of the other cms's mentioned here.
> Templating for example seems to be a hit or miss affair - you need to create
> a full theme to get any template changes happening and then what happens if
> you want one page to look different from the rest? CMS's like silverstripe
> and expresison engine provide massive flexibility with templating in
> comparison to wordpress, as wel as the ability to have template code in one
> central file, rather than needing to create 5 different bits in order to get
> one page working coherently.
>
> Do you have any examples of (non-blog) sites running wordpress as cms? I'd
> be interested to see.
>
> Having said that, for running a blog, I've found nothing better than
> wordpress yet :)
>
> Paul
>
> >
>



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