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CMS transplant

Vivid has recently completed a project for the London based charity, Trinity Hospice.

We were approached with a simple brief:

“Keep the front end and content the same – just completely replace the CMS with something intuitive that actually works.”

A bit like the magic tablecloth trick, only with the entire back end of a website.

When considering how to approach said CMS transplant, we chose to use the most recent release of WordPress (2.5.1 at time of writing) to provide a highly intuitive back end administration area whilst being able to call upon the necessary time saving features of a decent PHP framework.

WordPress has a lot going for it at the moment:

It’s open source
Its feature set is increasingly more powerful with each release (to the point where it can now act as a full CMS rather than just a blog engine)
The plug-in resources are expansive, offering plenty of exciting options for developing flexible websites
The default administration area is truly intuitive (I once heard a client describe it as “a combination of Word and FaceBook”)
It’s the most popular choice for powering blogs in the world right now
The development community is huge, offering more support than you can shake a very large stick at

The website’s new CMS is up and running and the response so far has been good.

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