How to make WordPress a content management system

There are a number of excellent tutorials on how to change WordPress into a Content Management System. One of them is itself with very good documentation on the subject.

For those not familiar with computing, a content management system (CMS) is a document focused application for managing an organisation’s business documents including articles, pages and databases. A CMS is often web-based and often it is used as a method of managing web sites and web content.

No longer is WordPress the monopoly for blogging. In fact, a number of companies and businesses have implemented WordPress in their intranets and websites because of its versatility.

Making WordPress into a CMS simply involves customizing the theme and the Administration panels through the use of codes and plugins.

You don’t have to be an expert in XHTML, CSS, or PHP to change a WordPress blog to a CMS, but a knowledge of these languages helps. But you don’t have to build your CMS from ground up.

These days there are a number of WordPress developers and designers who can help. Some offer their CMS-like themes for free. Even a premium WordPress theme does not cost a lot these days. For $75, you can have basic shell of a WordPress CMS which you can customise to suit your preferences. The premium themes already have built in plugins to run the theme features.

You can try the and people for premium CMS themes. They have very functional and nicely designed themes.

*** Romeo Cayabyab is director of Compucentric consulting and lead researcher and writer of techbusiness.com.au

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