[wp-hackers] Wordpress as a CMS

[Jean-Patrick Smith]

>
> > Tell me, would you rate PodsCMS above Flutter? Used Flutter recently
> > for the
> > first time, found good and bad, so curious for next major project.
>

PodsCMS is definately better because it doesn't use the post_meta table. For
content type you create, it creates a new table based on the attributes
you've specified when setting it up.

http://wordpress.tv/2009/10/30/pods-cms-basics/


I wouldn't personally recommend either plugin, for a variety of
> reasons, but specifically because they break with the WP Core
> architecture in significant ways.
>
>
> - Eric Marden (Jean-Patrick Smith)
>

They don't break the core directly, it's just a cms that uses the wordpress
admin basically. And some wordpress functions, but as Mike said below, how
would you achieve it otherwise?

Wordpress as a CMS is only feasible if you do it the PodsCMS way, you can't
really scale well using the other CMS plugins that just make
editing/displaying meta values easier.


Interesting. In your opinion how would a plugin have to impement the
> functionality of Pods/Flutter while still maintaining the WP Core
> architecture? (this is an honest question, not a baited one.)
>
> -Mike
>

You can only do it those two ways. I guess you could make it text based and
save your generated files to the filesystem... but that's about it:

   1. Store everything in custom created tables like podscms
   2. Store everything in the posts_meta table
   3. Create or implement a templating language and save generated files and
   settings to the filesystem