Using pages in conjunction with categories was one of the possible solutions I’d initially considered, to the point that this was the first solution that I implemented. It wasn’t difficult at all the get a page to display a list of items in the matching category. Best of all, it didn’t break anything.

I ultimately decided not to move forward with this solution for a couple reasons:

• Flexibility - I wanted to release the implementation as a plugin that anyone could use on their current Wordpress install. Using matching categories/pages might introduce undesired behavior if they already have categories or pages with certain names.
• Usability - I think I would get tired of always having to keep track of my pages and categories (to make sure that I have the proper matching names for each). Even more, I KNEW that others I may build sites for using the CMS plugin would have problems keeping track of it. So I needed to find a one-click solution.
• Stupidity - I thought it might be fun to break every function Wordpress provided and see if I could patch it up nice and tidy ;p

I do believe that I am close to getting the plugin to a state where others can use it, so the plugin should be released sooner than later.

Since I’ve already developed a WordPress website “with WP as CMS”, I’m finding these posts interesting, since I thought I could release my package as opensource…

…so, my first question (since it’s a blocking one): will it be open source?

Sorry if you already said that, but I didn’t found that info looking throught the past posts.

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Just as info: i’ve structured the website I did matching Pages and Categories, so, if a post is in a category, it will appear on the correct Page. Since Pages are not a flat structure and so are the Categories, I thought it was a good idea. I’ve developed a set of functions to make this kind of structure easy to be implemented in the template.

In fact, my script is just a library of function to do what I’ve said above and to create custom “The Loops”.

I will be glad to discuss with you, feel free to contact me.