[wp-hackers] Turn off blog/ Pure CMS?

[Jairus Pryor]

...just change the word 'Post' to 'News Items' in the admin interface,
and bang, it's a $50,000 CMS. :)

Jairus

On 2/21/08, Charles E. Frees-Melvin <charles.freesmelvin at gmail.com> wrote:
My 2 cents (and options would be)
> 1. Post or Page, remember which you used last when clicking in Write or
> Manage.
> 2. or have an option in settings to use post or page as default.
>
> On Thu, Feb 21, 2008 at 8:18 AM, Alex Cragg <alex at mysoutham.com> wrote:
>
> > Just in relation to this quote:
> >
> > "Well, you could always hack the global $menu and remove the Write Post
> > and Manage Posts pages from the admin. Of course, it's a little more
> > complicated than that, but it could be done.
> >
> > Unless, of course, you're intending to strip the blogging functionality
> > out of WordPress entirely. Eek. I wouldn't attempt that if you paid me."
> >
> > A quick search brings up over 100 references to post-new.php and edit.php,
> > so this would be a mammoth task!
> >
> > Another way top look at this would perhaps be a user level issue, so
> > remove the post write/edit capabilities, but in that case why not just
> > ignore, unless we want to prevent people from accidentally making posts.
> > Still though, themes would have to be adapted.
> >
> > Alex
> >
> >
> >
> > Jeremy Visser wrote:
> > > On Wed, 2008-02-20 at 16:25 -0600, Stephen Rider wrote:
> > >
> > >> Is there any way to essentially turn off the blog features of
> > >> WordPress and use it as a pure CMS?
> > >>
> > >
> > > I do this exact thing at: http://tinyurl.com/2dtqrq [1]
> > >
> > >
> > >> Essentially, Turn off Posts and just have Pages ?
> > >>
> > >
> > > No need. You just don't use the features. If you go to the above URL,
> > > you will find absolutely _no_ evidence that the site uses a blogging
> > > engine, apart from the WordPress generator tag.
> > >
> > >
> > >> I know you could easily "hide" it by setting the blog page to
> > >> something different -- but how would we make it be "not there".
> > >>
> > >
> > > Well, you could always hack the global $menu and remove the Write Post
> > > and Manage Posts pages from the admin. Of course, it's a little more
> > > complicated than that, but it could be done.
> > >
> > > Unless, of course, you're intending to strip the blogging functionality
> > > out of WordPress entirely. Eek. I wouldn't attempt that if you paid me.
> > >
> > > [1] Don't want to vandalise the search results. ;)
> > >
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