> 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 > > > > -- Blue Horn Ltd - System Development http://bluehorn.co.nz --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ NZ PHP Users Group: http://groups.google.com/group/nzphpug To post, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe, send email to [email protected] -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
