[Phpwm] WordPress

[Ian Munday]

After years of maintaining an in-house framework, I moved our important applications to the Zend Framework last year.  Pretty much all that had been built into our in-house framework could be replaced with Zend Framework equivalents, the result being that we got a more robust and better tested base from which to build our applications.  I can't see why people (in small to medium enterprises at least) would persist with maintaining in-house frameworks in the medium / long term given the quality of those that are already available and the ROI you can gain by using them.

	http://framework.zend.com/

Having said all that, I've found Joomla to be very capable and able to accommodate virtually all our website needs over the last couple of years.  (Note I say websites rather than web applications.)

	http://www.joomla.org/

Joomla might not have the same level of visual polish in the back-end interface that Wordpress has, but ultimately I think it is more capable.  It also uses templates and has a large number of extensions available, albeit of varying quality.  Or you can write your own (although the how-to isn't brilliantly documented).  Some of the best examples of templates and extensions that can be used with Joomla are at the YOOtheme site:

	http://www.yootheme.com/
	http://tools.yootheme.com/

Regards,

Ian


On 2 Feb 2010, at 12:03, Pete Graham wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> Wordpress can be very useful for some sites although it does have it's
> limitations. It has many useful plugins, I particularly like the
> Flutter Custom Content Types plugin http://flutter.freshout.us/ (which
> is similar to CCK in Drupal). I used it to build this site
> http://www.outsider.tv
> 
> I'd recommend CakePHP for more complex sites, I've been using it
> recently and have been very impressed with it.
> 
> Thanks,
> Pete
> 
> On 2 February 2010 11:53, Stephen Orr <steve at stephenorr.co.uk> wrote:
>> I've found that Wordpress is a pretty good base for most websites. Yeah,
>> it's not as powerful as a full framework, since you're not writing it from
>> the ground up - but it's a pretty damned effective content management system
>> as well as a blog, once you understand what you can do in relation to
>> categories and tags etc. I've used it for that in the past, and I've wished
>> on other projects where I built a bespoke system that I _had_ used Wordpress
>> after all.
>> 
>> A full framework will definitely be something to learn for the future, but
>> for just a "website" then probably over-the-top.
>> 
>> Steve
>> 
>> On 2 February 2010 11:50, Mo Awkati <mawkati at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
>>> 
>>>> ‘Web design’ is a very big field to handle entirely with Wordpress.
>>> 
>>>> If your building a relatively static website then no Wordpress is not the
>>>> way to go. HTML, CSS, JS and a bit of PHP for any dynamic elements will be a
>>>> lot easier. You’ll need to know >these to build Wordpress templates too but
>>>> having Wordpress in the way complicates it.
>>> 
>>>> If your building a CMS controlled site with a relatively static structure
>>>> across the site then yes wordpress is good.
>>> 
>>>> If you want a Blog then wordpress is great.
>>> 
>>>> Cheers
>>> 
>>>> Mike
>>> 
>>> Hi Mike
>>> 
>>> My future endeavours will most certainly be dynamic websites, more user
>>> interactive and includes all sorts of media. However, my Vicar ( I do our
>>> church website) quite likes the idea of a blog, that is what prompted my
>>> question; certainly will use WordPress for the blog.
>>> 
>>> Mo