Using Wordpress as a full CMS
Normally if I’m setting up a site and I want it to be a blog I use Wordpress and if I’m setting up more of a static looking site I’ll use Etomite. I like both packages a lot, and both have worked very well for me.
With the upcoming release of a web application project of mine I wanted to include the ability for users to comment on each individual page much like is done on the PHP site. However, this would have taken quite a bit of work to make work in the current Etomite version of the site, mostly because of spam. I’ve written a snippet for another of my Etomite sites for comments and it works, but 99% of the messages I receive are spam. And I really didn’t want to spend the time working out how to use Akismet in my comment snippet when I should be finishing my project.
But Wordpress has a great comment system built in. So I decided to rewrite the site using Wordpress as the backend just for the commenting system. So far it seems to be doing fairly well. And in the process I cleaned up the design a little.
The one thing that Etomite seems to handle better than Wordpress is keeping pages in categories. Wordpress just sticks all the pages in one long list. Etomite uses a frameset in the admin pages and one of those frames is a folder list with all the categories and pages.
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