WordPress as a CMS?

Anyone had any experience?

[zulufox]

I am looking for run a commerical blog (with adsense) using wordpress as my CMS.

I was wondering if anyone on these boards uses wordpress and could share any praises or rants about the program.

So, wordpress: Good? Bad?

Thanks!

[mblair]

I've been setting up a few Wordpress sites lately and once you get things customized it seems pretty slick. One of the great things about it is it has really excellent ability to reconfigure the URL paths (combined with mod rewrite) which can help with search engine optimization.

Although it doesn't seem to have the overall robustness of a full-fledged CMS (version tracking, content components, defined publication flows), I think it works excellent for small sites. As the sites themselves get larger I think it would get more difficult to manage them in Wordpress.

[mblair]

One more thing -- to really tailor it to the needs of a commercial blog you are probably going to need to be comfortable with hacking up the templates. These aren't too tricky though if you have HTML skills and know enough about PHP variables so that you don't overwrite them when integrating your look and feel. The templating system is fairly simple and straightforward and the generic template that comes with it uses CSS for most styling.