[wp-hackers] Turn off blog/ Pure CMS?

[Alex Cragg]

Just in relation to this quote:

"Well, you could always hack the global $menu and remove the Write Post
and Manage Posts pages from the admin. Of course, it's a little more
complicated than that, but it could be done.

Unless, of course, you're intending to strip the blogging functionality
out of WordPress entirely. Eek. I wouldn't attempt that if you paid me."

A quick search brings up over 100 references to post-new.php and edit.php, so this would be a mammoth task!

Another way top look at this would perhaps be a user level issue, so remove the post write/edit capabilities, but in that case why not just ignore, unless we want to prevent people from accidentally making posts. Still though, themes would have to be adapted.

Alex 



Jeremy Visser wrote:
> On Wed, 2008-02-20 at 16:25 -0600, Stephen Rider wrote:
>   
>> Is there any way to essentially turn off the blog features of  
>> WordPress and use it as a pure CMS?
>>     
>
> I do this exact thing at: http://tinyurl.com/2dtqrq [1]
>
>   
>> Essentially, Turn off Posts and just have Pages ?
>>     
>
> No need. You just don't use the features. If you go to the above URL,
> you will find absolutely _no_ evidence that the site uses a blogging
> engine, apart from the WordPress generator tag.
>
>   
>> I know you could easily "hide" it by setting the blog page to  
>> something different -- but how would we make it be "not there".
>>     
>
> Well, you could always hack the global $menu and remove the Write Post
> and Manage Posts pages from the admin. Of course, it's a little more
> complicated than that, but it could be done.
>
> Unless, of course, you're intending to strip the blogging functionality
> out of WordPress entirely. Eek. I wouldn't attempt that if you paid me.
>
> [1] Don't want to vandalise the search results. ;)
>
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