is this site run on wordpress?

[fish]

www.ford.com/

my boss insists that since (he believes) ford can run a site on wordpress then we should do our event sites on wp too.

The prob is that he doesn't have a team of developers to work on a decent looking site (like ford if that is the case). and already he's got someone cheap (i mean really cheap) to knock up a site using a free template and various plugins that slow the site down on what looks like an amatures 1st attempt at using wp .... (how the hell am I supposed to sell on a shite site?? - it's ok that was a retorical question )

so is the ford site run on wp, yay or nay?

thnx

fish

 

[rob]

not a chance - just look at some of the urls / code

 

[rottensoundz]

Found this on a Blog

Ford Website Built with WordPress Software | Shannon-Rose Design: Graphic Design & Web Development, Saratoga Springs, NY

which links to this

The Ford Story Chooses WordPress WordPress Publisher Blog

So the website ford had made with wordpress is

The Ford Story: See where we are. Be a part of where we’re going.

 

[MattUK]

I think your boss meant this part of the site,

Auto Shows - Ford


Many huge sites do use wordpress, relatively simply, but you can't cut corners on the design, if it looks cheap then people will run a mile.

I would tell your boss that Ford would have paid more than a few hundred quid for the design of their site

 

[ratboy]

The story refers to this:

The Ford Story: See where we are. Be a part of where we’re going.

 

[retired_member8]

I would have thought a company such as ford would be using a custom build CMS.

 

[MattUK]

I would have thought a company such as ford would be using a custom build CMS.

Why? If it works then why reinvent the wheel? We're doing some work with a large multinational who were seriously considering using wordpress for their umbrella site. The directors decided to spend high £xx,xxx on a custom platform which in the end didn't end up having half the functionality or flexibility.

 

[spondishy]

We use a product called Teamsite. Mostly because of the workflow you can develop.

Any major corp will want to vet a lot of the content that goes onto the web, so the workflow allows you to setup rules so content can't go live unless legal sign it off, etc.

 

[retired_member8]

Why? If it works then why reinvent the wheel? We're doing some work with a large multinational who were seriously considering using wordpress for their umbrella site. The directors decided to spend high £xx,xxx on a custom platform which in the end didn't end up having half the functionality or flexibility.

A custom CMS is built to your specifications and by the sounds of it, the custom cms which you mentioned was built poorly without much thought. I find WP to be a limited tool with limited features.

I have and always will use my own CMS both for my personal site and business.

 

[golddiggerguy]

I find WP to be a limited tool with limited features.

Word Press is far from limited if you know what is possible with it.

With every kind of plugin and growing available most sites can be created or recreated in WordPress with huge varying functionality!

 

[retired_member8]

When I say limited, I mean limited for the things I want to use a CMS for.

 

[stevebrowne]

I have been writing CMSs for years but in the last 12-18 months have started to work with WP. It's quite liberating not having to worry about a whole layer of interaction, ie. the content management side of things. Sure, a custom CMS will do *everything* you want it to (and are prepared to pay for), but WP covers a lot of the ground.

If you spend just a fraction of the time you would spend creating a custom system developing some specific plugins/themes then WP can shine.

It would be easy enough to add some custom code to handle any kind of workflow. It would need to be specced out first, and you would need to know your way around WP core code - AND be able to separate your code so that you could upgrade WP when required, but it would be possible, I've no doubt of that.

I am using WP to display content that is generated by a .Net app, saved into SQL Server 2k5 and served by a .Net web service (which I intend to move to WCF). It means that I can concentrate on the core stuff and leave the WP front-end to do what it does and allow me to add content quickly and easily, change templates, add plugins and widgets etc.

 

[fish]

I would have thought a company such as ford would be using a custom build CMS.

well me too, but maybe since they're going down the pan it's part of the grand cost cutting blitz

We use a product called Teamsite. Mostly because of the workflow you can develop.

Any major corp will want to vet a lot of the content that goes onto the web, so the workflow allows you to setup rules so content can't go live unless legal sign it off, etc.

Teamsite, nice if you can afford it. I should ask Autonomy for a contra deal ....

I have been writing CMSs for years but in the last 12-18 months have started to work with WP. It's quite liberating not having to worry about a whole layer of interaction, ie. the content management side of things. Sure, a custom CMS will do *everything* you want it to (and are prepared to pay for), but WP covers a lot of the ground.

If you spend just a fraction of the time you would spend creating a custom system developing some specific plugins/themes then WP can shine.

It would be easy enough to add some custom code to handle any kind of workflow. It would need to be specced out first, and you would need to know your way around WP core code - AND be able to separate your code so that you could upgrade WP when required, but it would be possible, I've no doubt of that.

I am using WP to display content that is generated by a .Net app, saved into SQL Server 2k5 and served by a .Net web service (which I intend to move to WCF). It means that I can concentrate on the core stuff and leave the WP front-end to do what it does and allow me to add content quickly and easily, change templates, add plugins and widgets etc.

Well it goes to show there's always innovation, compromise and an open mind to fall back on.

Thanks all for comments so far.

Fish

P.S. any good strategies for 'influencing the board?'