Great tutorial and great site you have here by the way.

This is the first time visiting your site and I love it!!

Can’t wait to explore some more

Ciao for now…
Recent post by Michele @ NewBizBlogger ..How To Create A Blog That Stands Out From The Crowd

I agree that WP rocks for websites, as well as blogs. One other aspect that I think is worthy of mention is that the SEs seem to LOVE WP! It’s architecture is clean and sound, to the point that I think you’d have to make a real effort, to mess it up.

Great tutorial! Thanks!
Recent post by Doc Campbell ..Benefit for Rachel Hunnicutt-Knight at Celio’s Tomorrow!

Love the idea of renaming comments to testimonials in some cases. Interesting!

In root: WP installed, used more as an index site, with posts that link to best articles across the site, posts to group content etc. plus Pages for the Contact, Disclaimer, About, Privacy etc.

Then subdirectories for each section. So each part of the site is kept in its own subdirectory, with separate WP install, separate login etc.

Apparently WP3.0 can allow me to put all WP’s subdirectories into the root blog, but never bothered with this.

Also, one of my subdirectories is a “blog”, with the URL in the date format. The others just use car/postname for the URLs. In the root it is just postname (no cats in URLs).

No idea if this is optimal or not. It is invisible to users, it all looks like one normal site. It does have a few advantages:

1. I can set up specific advertising for each section much easier than if all in one WP CMS.
2. More control over “related” posts etc. as nutrition news is seperate from recipes etc. (maybe not a good thing?).
3. I like to think that if something went wrong with one section the others will carry on and keep the site afloat!
4. Possible less strain on MySQL connections (as you know I am no techy, just a made up justification for not updating it!).

But yeah, I think that WP really does work well as a standard CMS. I have built a restuarant site, gardening site and other trade/bricks and mortar sites with WP. At the simplest level it means that you can create a basic site with 5 pages, but if 6 months later you (or a client) decide that they want a “blog” to speak out to their clients, no extra work is required. Comments allow conversation. In fact, on the gardeners site and van drivers site comments are just renamed “testimonials” and they really help those businesses.
Recent post by Jon @ Motley Health ..Why You Should Invest In A Power Rack

Totally with you on the usage of WordPress as a traditional CMS, in fact in my opinion it’s easier to use than a lot of other CMS’s out there

Use it all the time, love it
Recent post by Rhys ..My Take on the thesiswp Drama

I’d say a large “anything” might be iffy on WP, unless some serious tweaking was done to ensure as few trips to the db as possible. And I guess “large” would need to be defined. But I think average sites with ecommerce can probably do fine on WP.

I’m always interested in hearing about collaborating with others. Hit me up any time.