Has anyone ever tried using Wordpress as a CMS?

[anon123]

I have a website I built from scratch in 2001 that has about a thousand total pages, and I was attempting to transfer and convert everything from my current site over to wordpress.

I'm finding it nearly impossible to make my current site a "wordpress site".

I thought with all its features, plugins and ease of use, that I could make wordpress a way to maintain my whole site.

But my site isn't just a blog, there is also a lot of content pages and some of those pages have flash, java, and some 'fancy like' HTML that wordpress can't seem to handle. I'm just running into so many issues trying to transfer everything.

I know it's free software and I'm not trying to complain, but I'm just wondering... Have any others had success with using wordpress as a content management system and a way to handle there whole website? Or was I wrong to try and use wordpress for this?

[reprint]

with a 1000 pages etc you might want to look at something more upscale like joomla or drupal.

wordpress can be used as a CMS with a few adaptations and i use it regularly but i go to joomla when i have a bigger site.