We’ve had several enquiries recently about turning WordPress into a Content Management System. It’s always been a fairly regular request, but now seems a sign of further acceptance of blogging into the mainstream.
The general idea would be:
Blog posts turn into news items
Blog pages turn into CMS pages
Static HTML content on the front page
Anyway, we’re going to start work and see how feasible the whole business is now - it was tricky under WP1.5. There are one or two little programming problems to figure out first…
For theme-building purposes, I was trying, idly, to produce a string of the headings of all active widgets - and it’s not very easy at all. Perhaps, some very involved SELECT would have done the job, but it would be a horrible hack.
Must confess it, I’m not a great fan of how the widget data are stored - each box existing as a separate option and no simple relationship anywhere to tie them together.
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It is your platform to the world - you have the right to include or exclude any comment.
If someone complains and they’re right, it’s only a matter of time before you notice that any competent blog platform allows you to edit out your error and delete their inconvenient comment.
The more generous way is to strike through your error, probably add a retraction or clarification, and leave their comment. It’s called the right of reply.
blogs, cms, wordpress | Lewis, 4 Jun 07 | 
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