Search Engines || Information Architecture
This post is written from the new WordPress 2.7 beta 1 that was released a few hours ago. So far so good:
On the bad side I’m so curious who was the genius that changed “Write Posts” to “Add New” and “Manage Posts” to “Edit”
So if you are eager to try it, go ahead and download your copy from here
When using Wordpress as a CMS platform, sometimes you want to collect user feedback or bug reports. For this task, so far, I have used Kampyle which is the best product in its class and more important is totally free. But sometimes you want to keep it all in house. For that case, now there is a solution and is called Wordpress Help Desk.
Seems to have a lot of features and quite a pretty good degree of customization. What I like about it and Kampyle doesn’t have is that you can create views for your user leveles and this is quite important for a team website.
Practical applications:
Blogs in general don’t need custom or advanced menu. What comes by default in Wordpress or custom themes is enough for most of the users. But when you try to use Wordpress as a CMS platform for a medium size website you realize that’s not enough.
The challenge appears when you have too many static pages and you want to group them and show them to the visitors on certain conditions. In my projects so far, I have used GD Pages Navigator. This is a widget based plugin that does it job pretty fine.
Today I’ve stumbled across Wordpress Menu Creator that resembles features of other CMS systems like Joomla or Mambo. The resemblance might help more some users and developers to transition to Wordpress as a CMS platform. Haven’t used it yet, but I’ll sure give it a try on the next challenge.
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