You can use its image and video components to build movie Sprouts. Is a new web service (still in beta) that allows fast creation of Flash media content. WP can be used for an Intranet that combines blogs, traditional sites, or pretty much any of the other uses described in this article. Intranets, in a nutshell, are websites that are internal to an organization, typically firewalled off so that only employees/ members have access. For the latter, there are lightbox-style WP plugins and widgets, or regular image gallery plugins. There are a number of ways that you can use WP to create a Photoblog (such as by using the Photopress theme) or an image gallery. ![]() You could combine this with maps, video, images, and articles in order to create a history site. Freshlabs offers a WP plugin that allows you to embed SIMILE Timeline windows into your posts. Event items are draggable, and clicking on one pops up a dialog with more detail, including links. Timeline from MIT is a visualization widget for time-based info. (I’ll cover Google Maps and geocoding here on Performancing starting in the near future.) ![]() Then geocode each post into an icon on a Google map. Instead of news stories, publish reviews/ profiles of restaurants, nightclubs, businesses, as well as interviews of local celebrities. You could expand on this idea to build City Guides. Clicking on an icon displays an excerpt bubble, complete with a “Read more” that, when clicked, opens a new browser tab/ window with the story in question. News stories on the site (which uses one of Brian Gardner’s Revolution magazine themes) are represented by colored icons on an embedded Google MyMap map. The Thunderbird, a college journalism site built in WordPress, has an excellent example of what I mean by geocoded news. If you prefer more traditional URLs, you can use an. The fact is, you can use a Caching plugin to speed up the rendering of pages on your web server. There are reasons not to use WP as a CMS, but there are also reasons to use WP and many tutorials on how to do so. (This is not an endorsement of any of these sites, just simply an observation.) Another nice example is Ford’s Autoshow site. The latter integrates WordPress and Flash to produce a traditional site that you’d probably never know was built on WordPress if you didn’t check the source code. Some of the best visual examples I’ve come across are Twist’n’Shout and Simms Furniture Warehouse both designed by Charlene of Essentially Keystrokes, and Camacho Cigars. More recently, this approach is being integrated with a blog as well, particularly using “magazine” themes. One of the most common alternate uses for WordPress is to build a traditional website with no focus on chronological posts (blog) – that is, to use WP as a basic CMS. Basic CMS for a traditional site or web magazine.The uses in this section require the minimum amount of customization, often involving only additional available plugins. WordPress can do the job, and as has been discussed here and elsewhere many times, has a lot of community support, free themes and plugins, and is relatively easy to customize or to find someone who can for a fair price. Add maintenances/ upgrade fees, support licenses, training, etc., and most small businesses or online publishers are spending more than they have/ is necessary. That is, a fee for each person that MIGHT use the software. Many of high-end CMSes require “seat” licenses. The point is that with WP, you don’t always need to pay $50,000+ for a proprietary, difficult to learn CMS. ![]() ![]() True, WP is not a high-end CMS, but it can get the job done, especially for low-volume use. Some bloggers point out a variety of technical issues (which I’m not getting into here). Not everyone is for the idea of WordPress as a CMS. The key to many of the unique uses can be attributed to any or all of the following components: As someone who has both written small, custom CMSes from scratch as well as evaluated million-dollar professional CMSes for large corporations, WordPress‘ robustness never ceases to amaze me. It’s capable of being a full-blown CMS (Content Management System). WordPress, one of the most popular blogging platforms (if not the most), is capable of being more than just a blog platform.
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