I recently was contacted by a client who simply wanted to increase their organic rankings in Google. My approach was to do the following:
A) Take them off of their overpriced host and move them to a nicer, cheaper, more feature-rich hosting solution which included a simple WordPress install.
B) Apply a theme to WordPress which followed the look and feel of their existing website.
C) Train my client on how to login to their copy of WordPress and create/manage pages/posts.
This took me very little time.. Most of the work in converting asp forms into php and tweaking a theme to fit their design.
Now my client is able to create/manage as many pages or posts as they desire.
I believe, for this purpose, WordPress was the easiest solution.
Would you categorize WordPress as a CMS?
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WordPress a PMS (post management system). It basically have one type of content, a post. Even a page in WordPress is really post. Over time WordPress has gotten really good at managing posts. It's now to the point where a post can be virtually indistinguishable as a post. So it appears to be a CMS. However the use of a post as the base level of content type leave big holes in the system. For example you can't like to another page within a post as piece of content. It's linked as a url and if the page moves the link is broken. Many such holes exist, but for most projects this is not a problem.
I've always considered WP to be a CMS, but switched to a wiki as my primary CMS primarily because I wanted a complete edit history. But one thing I like about the wiki is that links to other pieces of content are links to the content, as opposed to WP's fragile URL-of-the-moment. I never thought about that issue in the WP context before, but this is a spot-on critique.
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