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How to use WordPress as a CMS Part 1

Just a little semi-beginner information that assumes:

That you know what I’m talking about.
That you are considering using WP to build a website.
That you are familiar with the process of building a website.
That you know what a CMS is and why people need them.
That you are familiar with using WordPress.

But I’m going to try to explain it from the approach of someone with a limited working knowledge of php and I am not going to write about the WordPress Loop that much because there are already many very good WP how-to’s about the Loop.
If you’re used to WordPress but haven’t ever considered it as a CMS,I don’t blame you.
The language in WordPress theme’s codes “bloginfo this and bloginfo that, and if have posts while have posts” can throw you off at first…

what if you aren’t interested in creating a blog site? & WP is intended to be a blogging tool so it makes sense that the language of the code relates to blogging.
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It was Hell and I never want to do it again.

Here’s a fun scenario:
Say you spend hours and hours on a custom theme,try to repair damaged SEO, sign up for Google Analytics for your client, create a Paypal shopping cart ( add to cart buttons,but for over 50 products-that’s work) sign up for a FeedBurner account as well. Get all your ducks in a row, finally only to have your host reset the shared server in such a way that you cannot any longer have use of the IIS admin console-without which all your links break and you must rethink navigation and put in place ugly urls. Because at least those work.

Then because you have had it anyway with IIS you take it upon yourself to buy an account with the host you personally use but they’re having server problems. In fact, they just finished a new server set up just when you signed up and the kinks weren’t quite worked out.

So what usually took one day took 4, all the while you were stressing because the domain name registrar was being an **shole. For some reason taking it very personally that you wanted to manage the domain from now on and not knowing if he was going to cooperate.

So I had 2 accounts.
One wouldn’t load any pages without a 500 error.
The other wouldn’t let me set up permalinks the way I wanted.
Both hosts wouldn’t answer their phones.
Both hosts were having server issues.
Probably why they couldn’t answer their phones.
And the domain name was in the hands of a jerk.

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WordPress emergency?

Sounds pretty alarming-there is a new version of WP that fixes a bug that might allow hackers to do something with post drafts and I have eleven of those.If you have WP you saw this the last time you logged in and this isn’t news to you.So why am I writing a post about it? Because I just freaking updated all my client’s sites and most recently my own to v.231. I am too tired to do it now. I don’t really care about my site but I hope nothing happens to my client’s sites.

Blogroll in WordPress,do you know how to change the link category name?

I was wondering myself how to do this because for some reason my blogroll wasn’t showing up in my list of post categories. If it wasn’t there to be edited how was I supposed to be able change the category name from blogroll to links or whatever I wanted it to say? To find the answer I performed a search and reached what I affectionately call the bitch n moan section of the WP codex. None of them seemed to know how to do it(and if they did they did not say-the cagey dears) there was one guy said that all you had to do was change the name.But he didn’t say how! Back to my dashboard and on a crazy whim I went to edit the link I had in the Blogroll. Right there staring me in the face was the option to add another category name to the list. What tipped me off that this was a separate list than the blog used for posts was the fact that the only category there was blogroll. So I added the ubiquitous link list category called links. Now my links list is called links,not blogroll.