Ask YC : create a user review generated website

Posted by yearsinrock on Wednesday July 23, 2008 @10:41PM
from the self-post dept.

i wanted to create a user review generated website like yelp but for not for the same purposes ,but i t will be on similar lines ,+ its for a local thing so it will be pretty small. So which cms should i use for it ,one thats clean and easy to use,as i have only used wordpress earlier ?

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Re:Ask YC : create a user review generated website by nreece on Wednesday July 23, 2008 @10:56PM (#255023)

WordPress! It offers a wide range of extensions - plugins, themes, widgets etc.

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Re:Ask YC : create a user review generated website by yearsinrock on Wednesday July 23, 2008 @11:11PM (#255029)

isnt wordpress a blogging cms

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Re:Ask YC : create a user review generated website by nreece on Wednesday July 23, 2008 @11:47PM (#255045)

Yes, but it can be easily extended into a complete CMS through its support for pages ( http://codex.wordpress.org/Pages#WordPress_as_a_CMS ) and custom forms ( http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/cforms/ ).

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Re:Ask YC : create a user review generated website by yearsinrock on Wednesday July 23, 2008 @11:58PM (#255053)

ok so can i create community driven websites like yelp from it?

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Re:Ask YC : create a user review generated website by nreece on Wednesday July 30, 2008 @09:09PM (#262519)

Btw, you can also read this: http://www.devlounge.net/publishing/things-to-consider-when-...

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