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The CMS power of WordPress

February 20, 2010 By Chrisdigital 2 Comments

The CMS power of WordPress

I’ve been working a lot in Wordpress lately, and it started to dawn on me how powerful the software is. I can only imagine what’s coming in Wordpress 3.0. The power I’m referring to specifically, is the ability to use custom fields with posts/pages. This basically allows an editor the ability to associate related information with a entry or record into the database. As a simple example, visualize splitting an entry into 3 variations: Full, summary, tease (or large, medium, small) and have every thing encapsulated in the same database record. Here on ChrisDigital’s Digital Designer Blog, I’m using this in the Bookmark links section to grab the “referrer”, “source” and their URLS from each post. This is very cool…

Filed Under: WordPress Tagged With: Blogging, CMS, Custom fields, Plugins, UI, Using WordPress as CMS, WordPress CMS