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« Last post by rgdot on February 19, 2011, 12:32 AM »That figure gives me CCNA nightmares...or is it dreams? 
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That's because people start small or blog-oriented sites with Wordpress because it's easy to use and then later want to do more with it but don't want to leave their familiarity with WP behind. So the demand for addons that make WP more like a full-blown CMS is high. That doesn't make WP a good CMS to start a *new* site with by any means though. I see that this may be a direction WP wants to go in the future, but I think it would take some very significant work to do it well. Part of the magic of WP's simplicity and ease of use is in its focus on a smaller set of features. If WP could do everything Joomla could do, well, it would be more complicated. If they do go down the road of trying to turn it into a more general CMS, I think they might be better served doing it as a new core and adapting the original WP to be an addon or integrated with it, but keep the UI approach and usability model. Maybe make a "Site Press" with "Word Press" component.
- Oshyan-JavaJones (January 30, 2011, 04:58 PM)
Wordpress is a "CMS" in the same sense that SMF (the system this forum uses) is a "CMS". It manages "content", yes. But it's not what most people think of when they think of "CMS". It's not a general-purpose system that's actually *made for* making average, non-blog websites. Wordpress was made for and is still best for *blog* sites. If you have no intention of doing blog-style content, or if blog-style content is not the *core* of your site, then Wordpress is in my opinion not the best solution. You'll be working against the system and/or with lots of hacks and addons to get it to do normal stuff that works out of the box with other more generalized CMS platforms. That being said other CMS systems don't give you blog functionality that is as nice and complete and easy to use, in most cases. So again if blog-type content (not even necessarily a real "blog" per se, but sequentially posted blog-roll style content/articles) is your goal, then Wordpress may still be best. For all else, set it aside.
- Oshyan-JavaJones (January 29, 2011, 03:29 PM)
They are insertable in the content, see get_post_meta -- and that's without delving into functions.php. You can further expand it to add fields to custom post types, really going into "real cms" territory. The developer-side to make that happen isn't as easy as it could be (I'm sure that'll be addressed...) yet, but the functionality is there without modifying the core or bringing in plugins.-allen (January 29, 2011, 10:12 AM)
all the fancy stuff tucked away (but readily accessible) so as not to intimidate the user
What happens to the 'Results' field?I am not a gamer so forgive me if this common. (Publicly) keeping track of average purchase is one thing but average purchase per platform is hilarious and not necessarily in a good way...-rgdot (December 14, 2010, 06:17 PM)
I'm not a gamer either - but I don't necessarily understand what would be "not necessarily in a good way" about it. It's mildly interesting, but I don't see it as being important in either a good or bad way.
I would be (again, mildly) interested to see the statistics on how the payments were divided up (ie., how much was designated to charity vs. the game developers and Humble Pie). But that's not charted as far as I can tell.-mwb1100 (December 14, 2010, 06:41 PM)