WordPress 3.4.1

Forgive me, I am a novice with WordPress, so I wanted to ask if anyone in here knows of a plug-in/widget that I or my web mgr can add to my website that will allow: player profiles/database...that link to scheduling of event(s)...that link to results/scores of the event...that links back to the players?

I humble myself b/c I may not even be making myself clear for what I am asking, or how to ask. Basically, I am not sure if WordPress or some other system/way (HTML, ASP.net, CSS, PHP) can make this happen or would be the best way to set up and post the aforementioned for my site.
Can anyone enlighten me on the first or make a suggestion? Thank you.

is there a way to turn off commenting so one can just display stories and articles?
Thanks,
jake@yeomanbee.com

I like the comment by Gregg DesElms!
It's right-on.

This is super for new user in wordpress

Wordpress 3.3.2 is out !!!!!!!

I like the WordPress for developing the website. The great flexibility provide the way to easily enhance the quality level of your website and provide great features website to your user.

This is the best Blog systemout there but way is this in the CMS category? Someone should lookup Wikipedia. :-)

One BIG issue is the missing build-in Access Control system, to restrict users or groups access to content.

Yes, there are several plugins to restrict access, but they does not cover all the plugins.

I constantly read blogs with "10 Steps to improve Wordpress performance" or "Speed up Wordpress". Well, it's an out of the box CMS with much power, but you cannot make it fast. Use another CMS if your prefer speed...

OMG Gregg, when you don't know how WP works, don't tell people so much crap. With taxonomies, custom posts and custom fields, WP is an amazing CMS.

I believe I've made this complaint here before, but just in case I haven't (or in case it's been so long ago that no one would ever dig deeply enough to find it), let me repeat: WordPress is not a generalized content management system (CMS) such that it deserves to be in the "CMS/Portals" category. I'm sorry... it just doesn't.

WordPress is a blogging engine. That's its heritage, and its relatively-recent enhancements in the back end (specifically the ability to create, label and task fields which, admittedly, do help the blur the line a little) are insufficient to move it (at least not entirely) over from the "Blogs" to the "CMS/Portals" category. And no amount of wishing on the WordPress Kool-Aid drinkers' part will change that. Again, I'm sorry.

Those who cut their teeth on the world of CMSs using something OTHER than a true blogging engine know the difference. Sadly, those who only know the likes of Wordpress as the only "CMS" they've ever used, don't.

And that's painfully evident in the results. Using the likes of WordPress for a web site which either isn't really a blog at all, or which is only partially a blog, is a huge mistake...

...and it's the biggest mistake which WordPress lovers (to the exclusion of anything else) make.

True blogs are unmistakable in nature. They contain a series of article-like postings which, are newsy in nature, and which are about someone or something; but they're NOT the fundamentally informational site about said someone or something.

If a web site's "About" or "Contact" page, for example, is, in essence, a blog posting; and if whatever is the subject of the site needs explaining (for example, if it's a site about a product, which requires an explanation, and a list of features, etc.), then the entire site should not be a blog. Rather, it should be a more traditional site, which looks and feels like web sites always did before anyone even thought of blogging software...

...and, if so, then it should be built and maintained with a true CMS product, and not a blogging product.

Granted, if a PART of that kind of site is, indeed, a true blog, then, of course, blogging engine software such as WordPress both can and should be used for it (that is, assuming that the basic CMS doesn't already contain a nice blogging feature which is sufficiently good that whatever things about WordPress which are better simply aren't better enough to not use what's built-in to the basic CMS). But, to be clear, blogging software should only be used for that specific part of the overall site... the part of it which is actually and true blog.

Sadly, WordPress lovers who don't really understand what I'm explaining, here (as evidenced by how they try to shoehorn all their web sites -- especially those which aren't entirely blogging sites -- into the WordPress paradigm) will rail against what I'm saying, here. But I'm no kid, and have been at this whole computer thing for, at this writing, over 35 years; and at the whole Internet thing for over 25 years (since before the worldwide web part of it even existed); and at the worldwide web part of it for just under 20 years...

...and so I might -- and I stress the word "might" -- happen to actually know what I'm talking about, here. Of course, my ex-wife would disagree, but that's a whole 'nuther kinda' posting. [grin]

I'm not saying that WordPress isn't amazingly good at what it does. It is, indeed. It is, in fact, in my opinion, almost without rival... best of breed...

...but at being a blog, not a true CMS. It's only a CMS if "CMS" is used as a very broad term to mean anything, regardless of how, which somehow manages content. But "CMS" has never been used that way. It has, rather, always been used to mean a product which generally manages content, but specifically in a non-blogging sort of manner.

Blogging is, and has always been (and, hopefully, always will be) it's own thing... not, strictly speaking, a "CMS," as we old-timers have always, from the outset, understood that term. Some people may not be able to articulate the difference, but, as a US Supreme Court justice once wrote about porn, they know it when they see it.

Granted, blogging software manages content...

...but in a specifically blog-like manner. It is an invalid syllogism to say that because CMSs manage content, and WordPress manages content, then, therefore, WordPress is a CMS. Anyone who actually DOES understand what constitutes a CMS (versus a true blogging engine), and who has taken a logic course in college, understands what I mean.

The reason, in chief, that I'm making such a big deal out of it is that I don't want to see the confusion proliferate. It's exactly that confusion which has given us no end of frustrating web sites which are presented as blogs which should not be. It's getting worse and worse by its increasing prevalence...

...which is driving me, for one, at least, to utter distraction.


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Gregg L. DesElms
Napa, California USA

I've been using my own home brew PHP/mySQL and simple CMS/ecommerce setup for years. Somehow I let myself get roped into using this blog-as-website tool for a larger project that needed a lot of bells & whistles and I've regretted it ever since. (This after first attempting Expression Engine...which was a whole other set of problems.)

This should be called KlugePress and my guess it that it has never really out grown its roots (blogging) or its user base (non-web-savvy types).

I've never seen so much diabolically over-complexified, top-heavy, ass-backward, circular logic code in my life. No doubt all this complexity came from...trying to make it "easy to use". But the net result is a system that must be working WITHIN (and very often circumvented) just to make it do what are otherwise wickedly simple things (just try ordering posts or grouping pages...good luck).

So everything becomes a plugin...EVERYTHING. Want to know why those HTML DOC HEADs are so bloody oversaturated with CSS/JS calls? Plugins.

And apparently these sites get hacked all the time. Beware.

If you know PHP and mySQL, forget it; you could code something better and quicker just doing it yourself.

Like you said - Wordpress is just ok, but its not state of the art - come on programers - push it to the limit instead adding useless features...

WordPress is ok! i just take my shop's blog with wordpress! a lot of such shop use this

I have had one constant problem with wordpress. It is a great system, but if you are using it as a true CMS, it still is not there yet.