Comments on: Using WordPress As A CMS For Small Business Websites

By: Liam Fitzgerald

Liam Fitzgerald — Fri, 15 Feb 2008 17:58:07 +0000

Thanks for the post Brady, very clear and easy to follow. Just thought I’d add that a good plugin to have in your WP installation is mypageorder which helps to put your pages in whatever order you’d like as WP doesn’t do this natively.

http://geekyweekly.com/mypageorder

By: Jean Moniatte

Jean Moniatte — Thu, 14 Feb 2008 21:44:16 +0000

UGAL (http://www.ugal.com) is a good alternative. It is a web hosted CMS designed from the ground up for small business websites. If you are looking at handing over the content management tasks to your clients, UGAL will be much easier for them to grasp than Wordpress or Joomla.

By: Brady Vercher

Brady Vercher — Mon, 10 Dec 2007 16:49:57 +0000

Jamie: It is possible to use WordPress without having a blog. For smaller sites, WordPress makes a great CMS because it is light weight and easily manageable. If a site is more than a few pages or will have multiple people working on it, another CMS would make a better choice.

You just need to create a page to set as the home page and have a navigation that will automatically update when pages are added. Check out wp_list_pages or the list of navigation plugins for more information on that.

By: jamie

jamie — Sat, 08 Dec 2007 05:04:04 +0000

fantastic idea, i really love how easy wordpress is to install and get going, i had a blog set up and ready to go in just a few hrs, but can wordpress be used without using the blog, i have some clients that need to maintain there own websites and don’t know how to read html, but use a wysiwyg which just muck up all my beautiful code, but with wordpress management, they can easily add and adit pages, with little knowledge and effort…

what are your thoughts on this…?