WordCamp Vancouver 2010
Panel Discussion: WordPress as a CMS
With only a week away from the sold out WordCamp Vancouver, Cameron Cavers, Dave Zille and I have been preparing our slides and questions for our upcoming panel. As you’ve probably heard me say before, WordPress is not only for blogs and we hope to demonstrate what can be achieved during our panel.
Having said that, we’d like to make sure that our presentation meets the audience’s needs. If you have your ticket for WordCamp Vancouver, are interested in learning more about how to use WordPress as a CMS and have a question, please leave a comment below or on the WordCamp blog post.
See you next weekend.
I’d like to hear some discussion on to avoid content types running away on me. I’ve seen some epicly bad Drupal sites with dozens of duplicate content types, when perhaps four were actually necessary with some nicely-applied taxonomies.
When should I use a custom content type and when should I just stick with tags to segregate and structure content? There’s pros and cons to both, but is there a case to be made for custom fields and not content types?
Catherine, are you talking about the new custom post types in WP 3, vs. using traditional WP custom fields?
It’s honestly something I’ve never really thought about in WP to this point because it hasn’t been available… having played with it a bit though, I think custom post types will be the way to go in the future, but only for highly specialized content.
If you just need to add some metadata to a post on occasion, I think it’d be overkill, but for a WP-based site that’s focused around web video or other largely non-textual content, it would be ideal. (Wish I’d had WP 3.0 when we were building Freyburgmedia.com!)
Yeah, Cam, I should’ve specified that’s what I was talking about.
(Tris and I are actually talking a bit about WP 3.0 after your session, I think: http://www.catherineomega.com/2010/621/catherine-is-speaking-at-wordcamp-vancouver-2010 )
Custom types in 3.0 are definitely a game-changer, but we’ve had MOST of that functionality since 2.9 behind the scenes. I’m interested to hear what people might be doing from here on out, but I also really don’t know what the existing WP-as-CMS options may be–and how custom types can improve upon them!