[UPHPU] CMS Opinions?

[Joseph Scott]

On Wed, Nov 25, 2009 at 8:33 PM, Velda <velda at novapages.com> wrote:
> http://codex.wordpress.org/Writing_a_Plugin
>
> If you use the plugin route rather than manual code edits, the automated
> update tool works quite well and can save you oodles of time.  At worst,
> you may have to temporarily disable a plugin after an upgrade until you
> can figure out a fix, but at least you /can/ do that quite easily.


Agreed, don't hack core WP files.  WP has a huge list of actions and
filters that allow plugins and themes to modify data without touching
the core code.  The other thing to keep in mind when writing PHP for
plugins/themes is to stick with WP APIs as much as possible (there are
APIs for all sorts of things so this isn't hard), quite a bit of
effort is made to make APIs compatible between versions.

There are lots of examples in the WP Showcase of sites using it more
as a CMS - http://wordpress.org/showcase/tag/cms/


-- 
Joseph Scott
joseph at josephscott.org
http://josephscott.org/