Poll: Do you consider WordPress a CMS?

Is About.com created with WordPress?

The blog portion of my site is controlled by WordPres, yes. But the articles, the lists of products, the landing page, and essentially every other part of the site is controlled by a home-grown CMS they call “ACME” (which stands for, I believe “About Content Management Engine”).

I use Wordpress as an intricate CMS, using simple hacks you can change into more than a blogging platform.

I can manage users too, have different page and post template designs, and everything else a CMS can do in a very, very light package that’s incredible user-friendly.

I’m a wordpress fan.

To me, the survey is a bit skewed. I don’t see a real difference in option 1 or option 2. Sure, blog content management applications generally only manage blog content, but blogs are nothing without content or the ability to manage it. Ergo, blog == CMS. By trying to create an arbitrary difference based on “full” or limited capabilities we would have to start nitpicking whether or not other “traditional” CMS applications are really CMS because they don’t offer “full” features. Or trying to decide which WYSIWYG application isn’t really WYSIWYG because of real or perceived limitations in their capabilities (for instance, NONE of them are truly WYSIWYG using the strictest definition of the acronym). Let’s stop worrying how to label things and get on with doing things.

I agree with Yunomi.
PS I don’t like your, this, comment system, actually it’s way of resolving ‘not filled’ boxes. A bit weird and not so user friendly with these redirects.

+ there is no feedback about submitted comment and, also, link ‘Return to Previous Page’ after I voted, actually directed me to web design homepage not to this article where I wanted, actually.

Ha. Read an article on this just the other day. Interesting how many people ask this same question.

Is Wordpress a CMS?.

wordpress was intended to be rather a blogging platform unlike joomla, or drupal. those are true content management systems, but if you know your way around codes anything is possible, this dealbit was created with highly customized Wordpress code

Yes and no…it depends on what you want it to be.

If you want it to be a Blog,
you use a simple blogging template and blog your thoughts and opinions away. I believe this was the first use for which WordPress was created.

If you want it to be a CMS,
you find an existing or create a new or hire the creation of a new CMS template and post actual, structured, and managed content. I believe this is the additional use for which WordPress was recreated, and the introduction of template authors and the availability of complex templates expanded WordPress into its function as a Content Management System.

The difference, IMO, seems to boil down to:
a) Whether the content is merely the author’s opinions or results of the author’s responsible research and honest, substantiated reporting, and
b) Whether use is made of an organized and managed site-content structure

Therefore, WordPress is both a Blog system and a Content Management System, depending upon how each author uses it.

To answer the question, “Do you consider WordPress a CMS?” I say, “Yes, I do because that is what I use it for.” However, that is not one of the provided answers, thus I think the second answer, “Yes, but limited, as it’s a blog tool first,” fits my above conclusions.