ACMS theme has been updated to v1.4
ACMS (not a blog) is a theme that turns WordPress into a Content Management System.

Blog posts become news items
Blog pages become CMS pages
The front page can be configured with static HTML content.

Use it for anything you might use a CMS for - sell a product, make a portal, etc…

It’s a fixed-width, 3 column theme, compatible with WP 2.2. and has been tested on Firefox 1.5, 2.0, Internet Explorer 6 and Opera 9.
This theme is not sponsored, and is released under the terms of GPL v2

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ACMS makes use of excerpting with optional override of the –more– pseudo-tag - the body of the code comes courtesy of the-excerpt-reloaded with modifications - for which, many thanks.

All languages struggle to keep valid XHTML as soon as strings are being chopped up. PHP is pretty good at it - it should be, given its design for html integration - but it’s (probably) impossible to catch every error, there’s always some situation that sneaks through…

ACMS is a free WordPress theme with Content Management System look - ie. bit dull….

Use it for anything you might use a CMS for - sell a product, make a portal, etc…

Sep 6th 2008 - fully updated for WordPress versions 2.5, 2.6.

It’s a fixed-width, 3 column theme,and has been tested on Firefox 2, Internet Explorer 6, 7 and Opera 9.

This theme is not sponsored, and is released under the terms of GPL v2

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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…