+1 for Silverstripe. +1 for Drupal Silverstripe CMS is pretty good (getting better and performance issues being resolved), but what makes Silverstripe a winner for me is the framework it is build on. It allows for very easy custom development, you can pretty much do almost everything with it as you can with a mature framework.
Cam On Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 12:58 PM, Sid Bachtiar <[email protected]>wrote: > > > Templating for example seems to be a hit or miss affair - you need to > create > > a full theme to get any template changes happening and then what happens > if > > you want one page to look different from the rest? > > I don't think so. It's not hard at all, for example you can create > something like tmp.cat-5.php to give all posts under category 5 a > different look (I can't remember the exact naming convention, so don't > quote me on this example). > > Wordpress is largely built around the concept of pages and posts. > > A simple example of a Wordpress website that doesn't look like > Wordpress blog: http://wn.elim.org.nz/ > > On Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 12:44 PM, Paul Bennett <[email protected]> > wrote: > > Hi yeosteve, > > > > In my experience it's harder to get wordpress to behave *not* like a blog > > than it is to work with most of the other cms's mentioned here. > > Templating for example seems to be a hit or miss affair - you need to > create > > a full theme to get any template changes happening and then what happens > if > > you want one page to look different from the rest? CMS's like > silverstripe > > and expresison engine provide massive flexibility with templating in > > comparison to wordpress, as wel as the ability to have template code in > one > > central file, rather than needing to create 5 different bits in order to > get > > one page working coherently. > > > > Do you have any examples of (non-blog) sites running wordpress as cms? > I'd > > be interested to see. > > > > Having said that, for running a blog, I've found nothing better than > > wordpress yet :) > > > > Paul > > > > > > > > > > > -- > Blue Horn Ltd - System Development > http://bluehorn.co.nz > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ NZ PHP Users Group: http://groups.google.com/group/nzphpug To post, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe, send email to [email protected] -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
