Nick L.A. wrote some pretty cool hacks on how to modify wordpress themes and wordpress code to use it as a general CMS platform and not only as blogging platform. Tricks are easy to use for non developers.
Nice list of examples to use. And yes, Virginia, you can use WP as a CMS. Out of the box, it comes with a ton of features that a lot of other systems lack.
Wordpress has ton of plugins and a community wich provide unlimited help and tips, trick etc, so its worth imho to give it a try as a general CMS if possible.
There might be a lot of "perfect" CMS out there, but WordPress is the best for designers. It requires no programming or PHP skills to design the theme.
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I've tried the all, Joomla, Drupal, Community Server, and the worst of the bunch, Ektron. WP is the best and coolest in terms of community and plugins.
Wordress? You mean Wordpress, right? How does an article with a blatant misspelling and train wreck of a headline like this make it to Digg's front page? I know I'll get dugg down for this, but what ever happened to proofreading shit before you submit it?
Wow, what a great idea. Hack a blogging suite that has the one of the worst db implemenations available and use it for a db-intensive application, this has success written all over it.
There are plenty of high traffic website that are built on WP! Sites that fail due to high traffic aren't configured right. A simple wp_cache plug-in would go a long way, but if you enable mySql query caching this thing is as solid as it gets. [my 2 cents] Now weather it should be used as a CMS for a website is debatable, but many people done it successfully.