WordPress as CMS
May 30, 2008
One drawback of WordPress as a CMS (content management system) is that it’s a blog that’s been shoehorned to a CMS. I need to create permanent pages that live on the site without any specific timestamp, but WordPress is designed to display posts on the front page. The WordPress site gives a nice summary of “posts” vs. “pages”:
In WordPress, you can write either posts or pages. When you’re writing a regular blog entry, you write a post. Posts automatically appear in reverse chronological order on your blog’s home page. Pages, on the other hand, are for content such as “About Me,” “Contact Me,” etc. Pages live outside of the normal blog chronology, and are often used to present information about yourself or your site that is somehow timeless — information that is always applicable. You can use Pages to organize and manage any amount of content.
I need pages for the different initiatives of the club – for example, the Pray for our Priests car magnets or the Monthly Prayer Request for Priests. I don’t want people visiting the site to see “Pray for our Priests” magnets as a blog post that happened in May 2008; I want them to see that it’s an ongoing initiative from the club.
