Before we start on the meat of the Using WordPress (WP) as a CMS series, there’s some fundamental technical stuff we have to get out of the way first. First on the list is: Custom front/main/index pages.
What For?
By default, WordPress’ front page displays a reverse chronological list of your posts - with whatever extras you […]

By virtue of the fact that WordPress (WP) makes it easy for us to write, publish, edit and organise our blogs, it’s already a content management system (CMS). So, what in the world does “Use WP as a CMS” mean when we already are?
Generally, it means to use WordPress as a more conventional CMS, for […]

WordPress (WP) has always been a highly versatile blogging platform, even way back in v1.2. So versatile that many have attempted to push it to the next level, and use it as a more conventional content management system (CMS) - not unlike Drupal, XOOPS, Joomla, and gang.
And if the coverage a recent post on using […]

It isn’t anything spectacular or revolutionary, but it might come in useful when using WordPress as a more conventional content management system (CMS) - as I had to do recently. What it does is to list the recent child pages (also known as subpages) of a particular parent page or the one the template tag […]

I’m sure some of you have noticed that there has been an interesting blog domain name change in the past week or so. Yes, it was Dell’s decision to change its corporate blog’s name from one2one to Direct2Dell - with a corresponding shift in domain name.
Oh, The Pain!
WTF? Any individual blogger would have thought twice […]

As part of the WordPress Plugins Feature series, here are the plugins released in the past 30-odd days that have caught my eye.
In some order of interest to me (not necessarily accurate), they are:

Bls Feeds with CommentsThis plugin basically embeds a comment form into your feeds. This way, your readers can comment on your posts […]

No, the word “feature” in the title doesn’t mean “characteristic”, but rather a “…non-hard-news story (a profile, preview, quiz, etc.) often given special design treatment…” or “…a special or prominent article in a newspaper or magazine.” While trivial, I’d rather not get anyone confused just because I couldn’t come up with a proper title.
Anyway, back […]

It’s been more than a week since Blogging Pro’s WordPress Theme and Plugin challenge ended, but some of David (from Blogging Pro)’s comments about the whole Wordpress community slowdown still nags at me.
He did raise a valid point when he argued that the amount of “really revolutionary” plugins coming out of the community has […]