Wordpress on its way to becoming a CMS
A feature that just landed today allows any Page to be used as the front page in place of the usual blog page. You can display your About page as the front page and move the latest blog posts to a Blog or Journal page. Any of your Pages can be used as the front page or the blog page.
This was a feature I requested in response to Matt’s call for new ideas in the upcoming version of WordPress.
English please: Well, it elevates WordPress from being a blog only software to a full fledged content management system. Treat pages as your sections and you can deploy WordPress to completely power your site, and manage all of its content from a single console. How wonderful!
ETA: To be completely honest, the idea of a homepage was started in an earlier thread on the list. My example/feature request was based on how Textpattern treats its sections. In it, you can switch certain sections to appear on the front page at the click of a choice. Not only that you can choose it to be or not to be included in search and in the syndicate. That I think is quite elegant for a CMS. Now, I am not quite sure whether that is the way WordPress team is implementing it. To me, it looks like you can only set a page to appear on the front page, if you like (from what I see in this code change). But, nevertheless, it is a step in the right direction.
ETA2: It does look like feed and search part of the frontpage package. Can’t wait for the next version.
Thats a cool feature indeed. Actually, my initial plan was the same to have a more or less static homepage and move the blog content to another URL. However, it wasnt that easy to implement. This is definitely good news.
Mar 1, 06 at 20:47This is definitely what I have been waiting for too. If you remember a certain design plan I showed you earlier this week, this is exactly the tool for it. Wonder when will it be out though.
Mar 3, 06 at 04:32Adel: That is your revamped site? Looks good.
Patrix: I thought you really didn’t need it to be a CMS to implement your plan, unless you want to have a static page up front. if..else statements in php can get you to do anything in WordPress.
Mar 3, 06 at 08:05