Comments on: Wordpress http://www.cmsdesignresource.com/cms-list/wordpress/ Resources & inspiration for designers who use content management systems Tue, 23 Feb 2010 14:14:02 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Ben Holmen http://www.cmsdesignresource.com/cms-list/wordpress/#comment-27 Ben Holmen Tue, 17 Mar 2009 14:36:38 +0000 http://www.cmsdesignresource.com/?p=18#comment-27 <strong>Strengths</strong>: The new 2.7 interface is dead simple to use, even for inexperienced users. Very slick, polished, and any custom functionality can be integrated into the same interface. Plugin management and system upgrades are very easy to perform. The system is flexible enough so that you can avoid the "this must be a ____ CMS site" look that plagues some CMS systems. Theme development is fairly easy to perform and the theme structure is very scalable. If you only want one layout for all pages in your site, you can do that. If you want several for different pages, it's easy to do that as well. Only building what you need in a theme is a great feature! Many, many, many free plugins. They're not crap, either. <strong>Weaknesses:</strong> The distinction between Pages and Posts can be confusing for inexperienced users. I've had a challenging time explaining this to users. If I had more weaknesses, I'd list them, but I really haven't run across many shortcomings when using Wordpress for what it is designed for! Strengths: The new 2.7 interface is dead simple to use, even for inexperienced users. Very slick, polished, and any custom functionality can be integrated into the same interface. Plugin management and system upgrades are very easy to perform.

The system is flexible enough so that you can avoid the “this must be a ____ CMS site” look that plagues some CMS systems.

Theme development is fairly easy to perform and the theme structure is very scalable. If you only want one layout for all pages in your site, you can do that. If you want several for different pages, it’s easy to do that as well. Only building what you need in a theme is a great feature!

Many, many, many free plugins. They’re not crap, either.

Weaknesses: The distinction between Pages and Posts can be confusing for inexperienced users. I’ve had a challenging time explaining this to users.

If I had more weaknesses, I’d list them, but I really haven’t run across many shortcomings when using Wordpress for what it is designed for!

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