Forum, wiki, online store, turning Wordpress into all CMS

Wordpress, built as blog software that can be used as a portal site, is becoming increasingly universal. It can be turned into any kind of CMS, thanks to plugins. Make it a forum, wiki, trading site, etc.

Online store

Creating a trading site does not require an online store, specialized and paid software. Wordpress can do this using plugins.
In this case, it shall perform the following functions:

• Product Catalog Management
Order and
• payment management.
• Mobile device support.
• Product delivery monitoring and client space.
• Detailed sales statistics.
• Languages.
• Affiliation.
• Sponsorship.
• Loyalty.

Examples of plugins .

• Voocommerts. Tool box for creating a CMS online sales site, which is a great success. It supports the Schema format for better indexing by search engines.
• WP e-Commerce. Marketing tools included.
• eShop. Online store with stock control.

You can use a specialized open source CMS, such as Magento Community Edition. There are many others in PHP: Avactis, Batavi, osCommerce, Prestashop, Ubercart, VirtueMart, Zen Cart and Agent-Ohm fork from Magento.
А на Java: Broadleaf Commerce, Ofbliz.

Discussion board

There are several plugins that allow you to turn Wordpress into a forum. This would not be interesting in itself, considering that there are very good CMS dedicated to this, such as phpBB, FluxBB, SMF and others, except that with Wordpress we give ourselves the opportunity to expand the software with many other useful plugins!

• Simple: Press forum. Can add a forum to your blog or create a forum site
.
• bbPress. With the support of the WordPress Foundation, it turns WP into a forum.

Wiki

Once the plugin is installed, simply check the box to make it a collaborative space that visitors can participate in to complete the article...

• Wordpress Wiki.
• Annotum. Created by Google, this theme aims to create a collaborative site like Wikipedia as a replacement for Knol. It provides tools for managing multiple authors for an article and allows you to export to PDF or XML. Ideal for scientific publication.

Reference book

Turning Wordpress into a directory and importing the contents of a site developed for Freeglobe is also possible. Of course, I wonder what all these reference books are for, but webmasters know it;)

• List of plugins.

Digg-like

To create a site made by visitors who describe their articles and voting for articles, this time it is a simple topic associated with three plugins:

• Flickr RSS. View Flickr content on your site.
• WP Page Navi. Adds new navigation tools.

Social network

A site with profiles that allows members to view messages or send messages to other members, Wordpress MU can also do this.
Each member's account hosts members who declare themselves friends or friends, and thus creates his personal version of Twitter!
Plugin Services:

• Profiles.
• Private messages.
• Friends.
• Wall (wire), the place displays messages like under Facebook.
• Activities. A list of your actions and your friends, matches Twitter updates.
• Blogs. Each participant has their own blog.
• Forums. Members or groups support forums.

BuddyPress. With support from the Wordpress Foundation, it also adds social features to your blog .

Video Gallery

A little more is expected from the video gallery plugin than from showing a video, for this it is enough to insert a Youtube player or another shared site or USB flash drive for posted videos. The manager and editing functions are offered by plugins.

• All in one video package. Create video thumbnails. 150 recognized formats too (these two plugins compete with each other).

Image Gallery

The image gallery allows you to automatically load images and create thumbnails. As well as various functions that make it easier to access images or special effects.

• NextGEN Gallery. Flash expansion also allows you to place videos in the gallery.
• Featured content gallery. Creating Cover Flow in the image of Apple. This plugin is no longer relevant, I bring it for those who would like to use it as a basis for development (license - GPL), because it has interesting functions.

Conclusion

Turning Wordpress into a dedicated site can have benefits. There will be a number of plugins available that you cannot find with special software. In some cases, you can add a specialized version to the site of regular articles by sharing the same database, the same services, and this can also be noticeable!