What are the best reasons not to use Wordpress as a CMS?
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I'm a big fan of Wordpress (.org) as a content management system. However, I recognize that Wordpress isn't necessarily the best CMS for all ocassions.
For those of you who don't like Wordpress, I'm interested in understanding your strongest reasons against. So, why not Wordpress?
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Wordpress works great for amateur to medium size clients, anything that needs a solid professional build with data-basing requires something more robust from my point of view.
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You can merge Magento and WordPress together, there's almost nothing you can't do with WP. Your comment about noindex is a fair one, but if you wanted to noindex useless pages on another platform, you'd have to do more than just tick a box (Yoast robots meta - http://yoast.com/wordpress/meta-robots-wordpress-plugin/)
My personal opinion is that WP's growth is going to explode during 2011 when small businesses start clocking on to how great it is. It's just a matter of educating them about it!
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That's an incredibly tough question and all I can think of right now is that you can't sell a WordPress web design as a bespoke CMS. A lot of businesses want a bespoke CMS that costs infinitely more than WordPress and with less functionality. There really is nothing to dislike about WordPress unless you hate using MySQL.
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I love WordPress, but I recognize it's limitations. First, I don't think it works all that well for e-commerce. There are shopping cart plugins, but there are some platforms out there like Magento that have a lot more functionality and are simply better for e-commerce and other shopping cart sites.
I don't like the cateogory, tag and archive features. Just a bunch of useless, duplicate content. I have to noindex those pages and block them in the robots.txt. Not hard or time consuming, but indeed annoying.
Other than that it works great. I have a variety of sites on WordPress that do several different things. I like that it can be customized to suit your needs very easily.
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