Title: Using WordPress as a CMS
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# Using WordPress as a CMS

 *  Resolved [subfusion](https://wordpress.org/support/users/subfusion/)
 * (@subfusion)
 * [20 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/using-wordpress-as-a-cms/)
 * I’m thinking of setting up a new website that’s going to have several sections
   on it, this would include, one or two custom pages, articles, featured websites
   and interviews.
 * What I need to know is, let’s say I have 3 categories which are: Interviews, 
   Articles and Tutorials. I have 3 pages with the same names, Interviews, Articles
   and Tutorials. Would it be possible to write a post so that each page desiplay’s
   it’s categories and that these 3 categories never appear on the front page on
   my WordPress installation?

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 *  [jpmcc](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jpmcc/)
 * (@jpmcc)
 * [20 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/using-wordpress-as-a-cms/#post-318516)
 * With WP you can create two different type of ‘things’:
    - **Posts** are traditional blog entries, usually displayed in chronological
      order
    - **Pages** are more like what you get with a CMS – static pages with an optional
      hierarchical structure
 * You can have both of these on the same site. For an example, look at [http://www.balerno-communitycouncil.org.uk](http://www.balerno-communitycouncil.org.uk):
    - _Categories_ and _Archive_ contains **Posts** (click on _2005_ to see how 
      the chronological filing works)
    - _Sections_ contains **Pages** (click on _Directory_ to see how the hierarchy
      works)
 * John
 *  [sguler](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sguler/)
 * (@sguler)
 * [20 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/using-wordpress-as-a-cms/#post-318520)
 * [http://wordpress.org/support/topic/54326?replies=14](http://wordpress.org/support/topic/54326?replies=14)
   
   maybe it can help…
 *  [heyrsmith](https://wordpress.org/support/users/heyrsmith/)
 * (@heyrsmith)
 * [20 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/using-wordpress-as-a-cms/#post-318543)
 * Subfusion:
    I have a site that works similar to the way you desire. I first use
   Ryan Boren’s [Front page Categories](http://boren.nu/downloads/front_page_cats.phps)
   plugin to tell WordPress the categories that I want to have show on the front
   page. If posts to categories are not in this list, then they do not show up on
   the front page. I then put links to each of the individual categories that do
   not show up on the front page where ever I need them to show up like a regular
   page of content (sidebar, menu, static page, etc.) This method of course gets
   kludgey if you have a lot of categories that you want to show up on the home 
   page and only a few that you want to keep off; it works much better when you 
   have only a few that you want to show up on the front page. Check out Scott Reilly’s
   [Customizable Post Listings](http://www.coffee2code.com/wp-plugins/#customizablepostlistings)
   plugin at coffee2code as well, this one may be of help in instances more like
   the first. Finally, Customizing your category template files may also be in order;
   The codex seems to be down for me; but Lorelle has a typically excellent discussion
   on how to use them [here](http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2005/09/18/wordpress-tips-and-tricks-for-template-files/).
   This post has several links to relevant section of the codex so when it is back
   up and running you can find them from there.
 *  Thread Starter [subfusion](https://wordpress.org/support/users/subfusion/)
 * (@subfusion)
 * [20 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/using-wordpress-as-a-cms/#post-318604)
 * Thanks for the information! I also found an article that helps you do this, I
   thought I’d share it with you:
 * [http://www.chrisjdavis.org/2004/07/15/faking-it-wordpress-as-cms/](http://www.chrisjdavis.org/2004/07/15/faking-it-wordpress-as-cms/)
   
   [http://www.chrisjdavis.org/2004/07/24/faking-it-wordpress-as-cms-pt-2/](http://www.chrisjdavis.org/2004/07/24/faking-it-wordpress-as-cms-pt-2/)
 *  [heyrsmith](https://wordpress.org/support/users/heyrsmith/)
 * (@heyrsmith)
 * [20 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/using-wordpress-as-a-cms/#post-318610)
 * Thanks for the links, Subfusion. I had no idea about the
 * `<?php
    $blog = 1; $cat="8"; require('./wp-blog-header.php'); ?>
 * thing. I usually just make links to category pages and use custom category templates.
   This is another way to do similar that may just be useful in the future…

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