Wordpress works
04-02-10

I have been developing custom sites with my own CMS quite happily for many years. I have used Drupal and a couple of shopping carts for some sites that suited it but never had a need to venture into the Wordpress world.

A client has just asked for a site like another he had seen and I saw almost immediately that it was based on a WordPress template. Some time ago I played with the WordPress template system just to see what it was like but this was the first time I was going to use one for real.

I have been impressed with the ease of generating a custom template and putting together some content and I now see that there are many people out there who make most of the sites they do on WordPress. I can see that the range of plug-ins and hacking of the PHP code make this a very versatile tool and I am sure I will consider it for future projects.

However, I know that most of the sites I build have too much custom structure that would not fit comfortably in a WordPress setup. Clients always want things done in a certain way and I like having control overall the components that go into the site.

Who knows? In a few months I might look at this and wonder why I haven't used WordPress earlier. Watch this space.