Wordpress as CMS
As a company you want to keep control of the content of your website; you want to be able to add new pages, to delete old news and make other modificatioins. All these come together in a Content Management System (CMS). There are several content management systems available which will let you do these tasks. However, most of them lack in either usability or flexibility. We don’t want the end-user to necessarily be a computer expert, everyone, in our opinion, should be able to use this ‘backend’ of your website – of course you can limit users by means of user groups (editors, administrators). After testing quite a few platforms, we were not completely satisfied. Ultimately we found a solution in Wordpress, an open-source bloggers platform.
Given that Wordpress is not intended to be a content management system in its purest form, some requirements are made to use Wordpress as CMS for ‘plain’, corporate websites. On the other hand, the usability, flexibility and security of Wordpress was that great that we decided to implement those modifications and use Wordpress as our CMS. We made a list with requirements which our CMS should meet, with respect to functionality, design, sustainability, flexibility, security, search engine friendliness and compatibility. In addition to that we have been reviewing our clients needs and have been adding these to Wordpress.
Wordpress is open source software. This means that the source code is free available and that user may (and should) contribute to the platform and its community (users) by improving the code and releasing for example plugins.
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