Wordpress?

[stickbomb]

ok I am in the middle of a disscussion as to weather worpress is classified as or should be used as a cms in a professional environtment.

I would like to get some of thoughts and opinons on this.

[ray326]

As long as the requirements for a CMS are satisfied by a blog, wordpress is a very good one.

[Ferret]

It really depends on what you need from a CMS. Do you need massive dynamic pages, such as Vignette CMS can provide? Do you need a basic CMS, that's cost effective like Joomla? Do you just need text/multimedia updates in a regular format?

If the third is true, pick a blogging software. I use Blogger for news updates and such with a custom template so it looks like the rest of my site, and it fits my needs.

[stickbomb]

well the key word here being professional meaning on a client site. If a cms is needed for a clients web site is wordpress a good choice. keeping in mind that they may wish to grow in the future or what not. I am not really completely famliliar with all of wordpresses features but I know they are limited compared to cms I have seen.

The main point being that is it really classified as a cms. Given that it was design to maintain blogs with a few other features that most cms have but rather limited in grow in a number of ways.

This is why I am in search of opinions. Personally I have always been in the school of building them myself on a client bases.

So I guess the question is should it be your first choice rather? Comments and opinons please

[ray326]

CMS is a family of applications that include blogs, wikis, forums and even document management systems. The specific intent of the CMS owner governs which CMS instance is most useful. If the requirements set is wide open then you have to go with one of the "everything including the kitchen sink" packages like Vignette or Documentum.

[Compguy Pete]

I had to go to the closest answer you had...

I would have chosen "on a case by case basis"

Here Locally a developer is doing every site he's working on in WP. I can't say he's wrong but the majority of the designs are bland and you may as well be back in 1992 using Lynx to surf.

Wordpress is so powerful yet simple and a stock install is so featureless it's nice! With the majority of true CMS's I've had a many clients get lost when they look to add new content. With WP you log in go to post and bam! your up and going.

[KDLA]

(To me, your choices of "sure why not" and "absolutely" are synonymous. I agree with Pete that another vote choice should have been included.)

It depends on the client's needs. Using Wordpress shouldn't be a crutch that you rely on because you lack coding skills, nor should it dictate to the client how the site will look or function.