What is a CMS?

A CMS manages the actual content (words and images), but also how they are displayed (its appearance). Though it began its life primarily as a blog system, WordPress has since been improved and extended by its loyal community. Many web applications use WordPress as the CMS – it’s evolved into a more robust system.

If you compare WordPress to other CMS platforms, it has more features and options (considering their add-ons ecosystem). While other CMS platforms may only focus on the actual content creation part, WordPress has a whole system built to support adding these new features.

We at Tangible are specialized in creating and managing entire learning platforms on WordPress – like this very course, its underlying system, community features, accreditation, and much more.

But WordPress doesn’t stop there. You can have fully functional e-commerce websites, community management systems, job boards, and even a simple portfolio for a filmmaker.

Take a look at these examples running entirely on WordPress: teamtangible.com, upwithwomen.org, respiratoryassociates.com, and coxcampus.org.