Ever thought of using Wordpress as a CMS ? Today’s showcase features a perfect example of wordpress implentation for corporate advertising. Served by efficient graphic design, 4 seasons entertainment implements an event page, a list of artists via wp-page-numbers plugin, and of course the usual suspect CFORMS.

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Today’s showcase : 4 seasons

4 Seasons Entertainment & Events has been bringing life to many major events in Dubai, U.A.E for over a decade. 4 Seasons delivers results, time and again. We pride ourselves to be one of the few agencies that renders 360 solutions for any type of event. All our resources are in-house, giving us the flexibility to support any event from small internal meetings to large conference and awards dinners or product launches with efficiency and precision.

Link : 4 Seasons Entertainment

The Foozoo design studio blog does not display images on its front page : black and white is the color of sobriety. Inside pages will feature, obviously, images, plus a nice soft blue font that highlights margins and  Based on the very simple Hemingway-19 theme for wordpress, Foozoo adds a few very interesting plugins. Most interesting is the WP-cumulus plugin that transforms the original tag cloud to a real Flash based sphere with mouse 3D effect.

We provide here a modification of Mark Allen ‘ Blogroll page plugin, that inserts blogroll into any page of your blog . What we did here is modify his plugin to create more than just a list : we make pages out the blogroll list, one page per category. The first page lists categories with link to blogroll list for this category. Slight Modification but useful fo SEO. Future implementations should modify title page to integrate category description. Enjoy and let us know how it goes.

• Demo here
• Download : blogroll-links-pages

One feature that is not in latest wordpress is tha ability to sort content pages easily. The PageMash plugin is the best option to convert Wordperss to one of the best CMSes you’ll find on PHP opensource. Imagine a 5minute installation that provides bloggin tools, including SPAM management (ASKIMET) plus Content Management with Wysiwyg and custom fields : that’s wordpress with PageMash !! PageMash uses AJAX to implement a draggable hierachical page tree that allows administrator to manage the parent pages structure from administrative interface with an option to toggle the page to be hidden from output. Impressive.

If it hadn’t been there we’d have invented it.  Writing articles with inline images is a long job for a blogger, noone needs more time-consuming image presentation tasks. WP-Post-Banners is a standalone script / wordpress plugin that can mine your Wordpress posts or any other data and look for images suiting a given dimension and generates ‘featured’ section for your site using the found items. The featured section, includes a resized image (banner) with the label, description and link of the related post or data.

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Used by many news portals, the technique above is a great example of how to optimize layout of breaking news. We have gone the simple way with the image above, using a combination of Photoshop layers over a background image. The way it is implemented for Wordpress platform by Derek Punsalan illustrates the power of wordpress custom fields, and also the limits of this input system. We would like to have image custom input fields, such as file browser or color selector. The popular custom field GUI plugin handles select, checkboxes and radio buttons but would require extensions to handle more advanced input types. There is hack on Wordpress forums for that plugin  that handles Wysiwyg fields, but I would not expect it to be maintained over future versions of Wordpress. The “More Fields” Plugin is a bit more flexible and is worth having a look at too.

This is hot : managing content with a mobile phone was only a distant dream for the masses until this application came live. the Wordpress for Iphone application is the kind of add on that makes you buy a phone if you’re a wordpress blogger, or that would make you swithc to wordpress if you were wondering which blogging platform is best. More than that, Iphone for wordpress lets you work with any self hosted wordpress (2.5.1 or higer) application, WordPress MU 1.5.1, or even wordpress.com blogging platform !! The App works with the new iPhone 3G, the first generation iPhone, and the iPod Touch. Its code has been released as opensource for developers to debug.