WP-CMS Wordpress Plugin
6.04.2008 | Old Posts
Today I released the WP-CMS Wordpress plugin. WP-CMS is a plugin for Wordpress that changes the functionality of the Wordpress admin backend to act more like a CMS. The blog and comment functionality is removed and other options stripped down to make Wordpress as user friendly for you and your clients as possible.
The idea was to make it as easy as possible to use Wordpress as a CMS. Any comments/complaints much appreciated. I would really like people to tell me what they think about this and how it could be improved. Enjoy.
6.05.2008
I’ll give this a look when I get home, but I do have a question. Why remove the blog + comments parts? Why not redefine them as an optional section you can add to your site?
6.05.2008
That is something I plan on doing in a later version. Just didn’t have the time to do it just now.
6.12.2008
This is really cool and is a step in the right direction. Being able to adjust the order of the pages and posts tabs would be cool too. So sites that use more cms than blog would default to the pages tab rather than the posts.
Great work! I am excited to see future releases.
6.13.2008
hi, I can’t download Your plugin “404 File not found”
6.19.2008
Hi,
It is very similar to my own ‘Simple CMS’ plugin.
Nice plugin you have here. Keep up the good work
http://pixopoint.com/simplecms/
I hadn’t thought of changing the permalinks automatically. I’m not sure I’ll be adding that feature to my own plugin though, I prefer to leave that option to the administrator to modify themselves.
6.25.2008
Hi
I have traduct WP-CMS in French for myself. May be you want it to put it on the wordpress site ?
6.25.2008
Nice plug in ! And very usefull !
7.30.2008
This is a great plugin! I like putting the posts in a separate area of the admin panel. My writers will need to create posts, but I don’t want them to get confused between posts and pages. I wish it was compatible with other plug-ins that beautify the admin panel. When I try to use it with admin dropdown menus the settings menu disappears.
9.04.2008
I like your plugin. I’m trying to use WP as a CMS in my company, but I stumbled into a problem:
The “design” menu disappears when you activate the plugin and this prevents me from being able to manage the widgets. How can I fix this?
9.25.2008
I really like this and I’m using it on a site I’m building right now. It’s much nicer to give a simplified view to an end user who didn’t want a blog or blogging software (but may do in the future, why not use WP, eh?!).
One tiny problem I noticed though, was that the logout button attempts to log you out of your demo site! It’s a quick fix (that I did myself) by just removing the absolute link. Other than that, great work!
11.01.2008
Hi
I’m kinda interested in using this plugin but it worries me when I see people reporting faults and problems but getting no responses. I noticed there’s a version history for your download which may or may not have fixed the problems noted by comments above. Perhaps, if you can’t respond to people’s comments, you could instead put the dates of the versions in so that people can see whether or not the problems reported might have been addressed.
It looks great though.
11.01.2008
@looker Sorry I should have replied here to the comments above. What I actually do is email the people directly as I have no guarantee that they will come back here to see my response. But rest assured all issues mentioned above have been fixed.
12.23.2008
I take it I’m the only one to have experienced a panic after installing WP-CMS, because all I could see on my front page was the one post saying “Hi and thanks for using WP-CMS!” and could only access the other posts by using the archive.
Even after deactivating and deleting WP-CMS! And reverting to the default template. Solution appears to be to delete said post but I don’t remember seeing that spelled out anywhere. Perhaps it could be spelt out in said post for us dimwits.
1.25.2009
This plug in doesn’t apparently work correctly in WP 2.7.
Your ReadMe file for version for WP-CMS 1.2.1 says “Tested to 2.6.2″.
The issue I have is that when the plug-in is activated, the Dashboard Menu disappears and is unavailable.
Usually if I click the back button on the browser, takes me to the previous screen (plugin installer screen) and I deactivate it immediately, the Dashboard menu returns.
This is a great plug in and I’d use it if not for this problem……I look forward to an update at some time to be compatible with 2.7 and upwards.
Thanks.
1.25.2009
@Andrew Yes just now it is only compatible up to Wordpress 2.6.2. I don’t have the time to update it just now as I am very busy but maybe sometime in the summer I might get a chance to make it Wordpress 2.7 compatible.