Beyond the WP theme: what's the strategy for turning WP into a CMS

[Hugene]

Hello again

So I decided to embark on the WP train ride. My goal is to use WP as a full-fledged CMS in order to power a site.

The site would have the following 3 fictive divisions:

WIDGET_1 WIDGET_2 BLOG


I am reading the WP doc, but I need some expert advice, as the doc talks mostly about Themes. What strategy should I take in order to turn WP into CMS?

Basically, I want WIDGET_1 to be populated with one kind of posts, WIDGET_2 to be populated with another kind of posts, and BLOG to be a regular blog, but that excludes posts for WIDGET_1 and WIDGET_2.

A good example of this can be seen on this site: [thechurchoflondon.com...]

Making static pages for WIDGET_1 and WIDGET_2 wont do it, because I want the pages to be easily to update through writing posts.

I read a about Custom Posts, but I had trouble implementing it. Is this the solution?

[ergophobe]

well, the brute force approach would be that every post to one of those three areas gets tagged/categorized appropriately, and then the nhav links just link to the main category page.

[lorax]

Okay ... have you looked at Advanced Category Excluder - [wordpress.org...]

[Hugene]

Thanks lorax, this is amazing. I think I have the site structure right. Now to the difficult part: skinning it entirely.