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Posted: **Fri Apr 20, 2007 3:15 pm**

Here is a tutorial on how you can change wordpress into CMS.

This is a visual tutorial about building a website using Wordpress. To illustrate it, an example theme will be customized from the Default Wordpress theme, step by step. The major goal is to learn how to create a Wordpress CMS managed website and avoid the blog look.

Weblink here http://www.mensk.com/tutorials/wordp...cms-intro.html

This tutorial is divided on six chapters:

Chapter one: Install the Wordpress script on your website
Chapter two: Create the content of your website and build its Wordpress CMS managed structure.
Chapter three: Style its look-and-feel using CSS specification.
Chapter four: Create some templates.
Chapter five: Some ideas to improve it.
Chapter six: Resources.

Posted: **Fri Apr 20, 2007 5:33 pm**

You can easily convert Wordpress into a CMS to manage simple websites, if you are an expert you can even create a portal based on Wordpress.

If you want a normal website based on Wordpress as CMS, you have to create a new Theme for Wordpress that will meet your needs and you can use the posts and pages in wordpress for contents in your website. You can also categorize them. If you want to what can be accomplished with Wordpress, just head over to my site http://vault.laschatz.info/ . This is a open source and free software directory running on Wordpress with a custom designed Theme.

You can add extra features to you Wordpress site like Polls, stats, Adsense, tagging etc. with a huge collection of plugins available online.

To begin with a new theme for wordpress, you can start by modifying the default Kubric theme of Wordpress.

It is better to head over to the Wordpress Codex, http://codex.wordpress.org/ and learn the basic tags and formats of Wordpress queries and functions.

Test the theme you develop in Wordpress installed in your local machine using EasyPHP or WAMP.

If need any help I'd be glad to help you.

Currently I'm developing a Wordpress Site for my professional website, it will be up within 2 weeks.