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15 Most Inspiring Uses Of Wordpress As CMS

July 27th, 2009

Undoubtedly, Wordpress is known as a powerful blogging platform used by webmasters all over the world. But we should admit that it is capable of providing much more facilities. The point is that due to some modifications and implementation of certain plugins you can turn your Wordpress into fully functional Content Management System. In order for you to see how it looks in the issue and get inspired for your own Wordpress transformations we present you the compilation of the most inspiring designs of Wordpress successfully used as CMS.

1. Weather Pops

gallery in wordpress

Weather Pops imply the set of characters related to weather which are available for licensing. This website possesses eye-catching design and shows how you can build simple but mighty website, including galleries, standard pages and contact forms in your Wordpress site.

2. TP Hire

This rental company website is distinguished by enhanced gallery page which maintains facilities for viewing images in larger size and in a slideshow. Separate attention should be paid to the Events Page as it shows very clearly how you can customize Wordpress pages to fit your individual website requirements.

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Top 6 plugins to help you build a website powered by WordPress CMS.

May 5th, 2009



We already discussed some ways to use WordPress as Content Management System and how easy it is to maintain your site and update your content if your website is powered by WordPress. So, if you plan to launch a website built with WordPress here are the best plugins to help you.


* Cforms II. Every website should have a contact form of some kind. Here is the best contact form plugin ever. Being extremely configurable it gives you an opportunity to create a contact form of any kind, besides there is an awesome built in spam protection.


* Search Everything. This small plugin allows your visitors to search your entire site easily and smoothly.


* Subscribe2 - very nice newsletter plugin that allows you to create newsletters and manage your subscribers with your WordPress Dashboard and gives you an opportunity to email subscribers when a blog entry is posted.


* Event Calendar 3. This is the best plugin among hundreds of event plugins you can find. It creates events as blog posts thus giving you an opportunity to integrate them into your website easily.


* XSPF_Player. This is a nice mp3 player that gives you a great opportunity to manage playlists, artists links and covers. Pretty cool plugin for music addicts.


* pageMash. Very good plugin that helps you put your pages in order easily without editing every page individually.


What else would you add to your website powered by WordPress?

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