13.3.08

WordPress

The next project I looked at was WordPress. This is a project that hasn't been going for as long as PHPNuke for instance but still has something under it's belt. It also appears a lot under the suggestions for easy to use CMS that can be easily skinned and managed by less technically astute users.

Skinning of the default theme used in WordPress, from what I can tell from testimonials on other websites seems to imply that it's easy which is a bonus.
Although WordPress is a lot more of a blog site it is also apparent that you can turn this around quite easily to make it a fully featured website as it allows for not only a posting system like Blogger, which would be useful for news, but also a 'page' system for creating proper website pages. This means that with some simple tweaking I could remove most of the blogging functionality and create a very easily update able website.

Also given the massive very open source orientated community there are a lot of free themes, plugins and add ons that would expand what can be done with this system massively and without too much hassle.

So far WordPress has impressed me the most and so I will install it to the web server as soon as I can in order to test it. The installation process is supposedly very easy to use and integration with MySQL is also easily made as the host that Food Dreckly use provide cPanel which makes life easier.

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