Comments on: Wordpress as a Content Management System

By: Luke

Luke — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 14:23:14 +0000

Wow! very cool to find other people who are doing the same thing. I’m using Wordpress as CMS for the Troy Public Library Drupal is overkill for most libraries, and Joomla has a high learning curve.

It only takes a short time to convert Wordpress from blog to a CMS style. I believe I have some interest and funding from a major organization to put together tutorial resources for doing this (removing the PHP tags and tweaking the CSS). If anyone is interested, drop me an email.

http://www.lukecharde.com

By: diseno.web.vizcaya

diseno.web.vizcaya — Sun, 26 Oct 2008 22:28:41 +0000

I have already used wordpress as a CMS and it works great. It’s very useful, light and fast.

By: Headland CMS

Headland CMS — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 15:55:09 +0000

Wordpress is right up there with Drupal and Joomla as very popular open source content management systems. Wordpress has a very low learning curve which provides significant advantages over the rest of the open source systems.

By: Sharon

Sharon — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 18:38:42 +0000

In Kansas, we have the My Kansas Library on the Web program that helps public libraries build some truly awesome sites using WordPress. To date, we have about 140 libraries signed up. I’ve compiled a list of libraries in the Northeast Kansas Library System (actively) using WordPress to help with upcoming training (keep that in mind when visiting the site).

By: pollyalida

pollyalida — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 04:06:47 +0000

Thanks so much for sharing these tips. I’m doing on a class on this next month, the plugins you mentioned sound like they’ll be very helpful.

By: Darren

Darren — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 23:54:23 +0000

good information here, thanks. do you know of other libraries using wordpress as a cms that don’t look like blogs? we’re comparing worpress with drupal and other cms, and would like to see as many implementations as we can.

I am really intrigued by your description of using link categories and link blogroll widget to display library databases — is that site live? I’d like to see that, and also the use of templates to develop an array of page types. really good post, thanks again.

By: Cindy

Cindy — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 21:44:09 +0000

The new version of Movable Type works well for this, too. I know how you feel…everyone kept looking at me like I was nuts when I said we could run a web site off of a blog platform. (We tried Joomla, and hated it.) But a blog is just a little content managements system, and some of the new features make it even easier to do this.

By: Tom

Tom — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 19:32:23 +0000

Just last year we started using WordPress as a CMS for departments, divisions and niches within our library. We aren’t using it as an OPAC interface like Scriblio, just as a tool to allow librarians to control the content of their site. It has been very successful. Several have reported success in reaching their target audience with never before seen rates of success.

My student developed a way of managing events using an event page template and the custom variables available for each post. Through it, the librarians can set the date of the event and then the events are organized chronologically. Usage can be seen here: http://lib.byu.edu/sites/sc/events-exhibits-news/motion-picture-archives-film-series/current-and-upcoming-films/.

Thanks for the tip about the Widget Logic plugin. That may prove useful in the future.