How to use WP as a CMS, too

  • Please forgive me if this question has been asked. I did search the forums, but didn’t really find what I was looking for.

    Here’s my situation: I work for a government agency, and we are planning to deploy a new website soon, and the boss wants it to have a blog and podcasting capability. I was wondering if WordPress could be a “one-stop shop” for content management, blogs, and podcasting.

    If anyone has experience with this, please let me know – and as an aside, I’m also trying to track down technical requirements for hosting podcasts.

    In advance, thank you very much!

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  • WP Will do a great job as a blog and a podcasting site. It can also serve as a simple content management system, so depending on the complexity of your needs for a cms, you may be able to do everything in WP.

    I use WP for some basic podcasting at the link below:

    https://www.georgetownprofessor.net/podblog/

    The School of Education at Bowie State uses WP for their school website…see the link below.

    https://education.bowiestate.edu/

    WP can do what you want….it’s just a matter of organizing your site and being a bit creative.

    Depending on how versatile you want the CMS features to be, there are better (simple) content management systems out there…you don’t have to jump into something as complicated as Mambo or Joomla. In my opinion, WebsiteBaker would make a great companion to WP…using the two together, you would have a simple, powerful CMS with WB and a great blog/podcast system with WP.

    https://start.websitebaker.org/

    Good luck.

    Steve

    Thread Starter general81

    (@general81)

    Steve, thanks very much! You kind of already answered this question, but just so I’m clear … are you saying that I can use WP as a blog host, and another product as a CMS if necessary?

    I’m not trying to put you on the spot; I just want to make sure I understand the whole process.

    Thanks for your help!

    – David

    Yes…that’s quite common. Use the technology that is best suited for your needs. WP is the best, in my opinion, blog software and you can do simple CMS stuff with it, but there is other software better suited for more advanced CMS features. WB is just one of the simpler to understand and use…again, just my opinion.

    Steve

    the boss wants it to have a blog and podcasting capability. I was wondering if WordPress could be a “one-stop shop” for content management, blogs, and podcasting.

    Yes. To all of that. I’ve done this several times.

    You can have static pages with WordPress being only the CMS. PodPress is a podcasting plugin that works very well (comes bundled with Audacity so you have the software to edit your files). I’m currently working on a site that has ZenCart running with WordPress so the blogger can sell her goods.

    WordPress doesn’t need any extra programs to make things work (I believe there’s even a shopping cart that’s WordPress based, but I’ve never used it – and bbPress is what uses the forum you’re reading right now).

    So yes, WordPress can handle it all (been there, done that – still doin’ it, actually…)

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