Using WordPress as CMS is much more simple as of version 2.1. It only takes five simple steps to do it, without the need to hack into complicated code.
- Create a page named home as startpage and give it page order 0.
- On the top of index.php add (between php tags) /* Template Name: weblog */ .
- Create an empty page named weblog, give it page order 99 and assign the weblog template to it.
- In the admin section under options > reading, select home as front page and weblog as posts page.
- Create a menu with wp_list_pages(‘sort_column=menu_order&title_li=’). (Already taken care of in the CMS theme).
Use pages for your CMS content and make sure the page order is between 0 and 99. This way the first page in the menu is home and the last page is the weblog. Of course you can vary if you want.
Download the original CMS theme or the new CMS theme and optionally use a plugin to make the pages searchable.
Great tips – a demo would be nice. A video – perfect.
I’m starting to compile resources and lessons I’ve learned while building two CMS sites with WordPress.
My site is: WordPressIntoCMS.com
thanks
Thanks so much
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Good done!Is there anybody Use it in version 2.7??
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Followed all the simple steps. It worked like a charm on 2.7.1!
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Nice guide, very useful and easy to follow, thanks for sharing it.
Hi Martijn, I think you were inviting comments on your footer??- it looks great. How were you able to achieve it? Many thanks for the cms tutorial.
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Thank you for the helpful post. I was searching for something relevant and discovered your website in the process.. I will definitely be back again for more.
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