Re: [pothompson] SEO capabilities
Wow! A topic I can address! Of nearly all the canned cms-system free systems out there...Wordpress has probably the best plugin SEO available. That sounds promising, and it works well, EXCEPT...being the best at a "C or D Level" is not necessarily something to brag about. The free SEO plugin for Wordpress works well, and better than other canned plugins. If any CMSB programming web developer knows the basics of good SEO, then they have the innate ability to provide exponentially better SEO to a site than Wordpress can deliver. Like most systems, WP is limited. There are also some major security flaws hackers can exploit (but that's another issue).
So, in short, you can prebuild SEO guidelines in with CMSB that are lightyears ahead of Wordpress'. The flexibility and creativity afforded by CMSB to do this is amazing. In fact, it the MAIN reason I have chosen CMSB over every other CMS system available - public domain and private sourced.
What would be REALLY HELPFUL however, and I've been asking for several years now, is a plugin with the ability to build sitemap pages. It doesn't even have to be complicated...just be able to outpul ALL the html (php) links (built by CMSB) to a single flat page. Taking the time, I could probably figure out how to do it. I'm not a great programmer, but I can muddle through...although I am certifiable as a search engine specialist. I just like Dave and his team at IT to build most plugins because they are great programmers.
Hope that helps the conversation.