What are the plugins that are required to make wordpress a good cms? What will you advise to change the admin page and seo? I am trying to use wordpress as a cms and want some advices form people who have done it before.
what type of site are you going to run on it? lots of good plugins, depends what you are going to use it for
Can you specify the nature of the project. Maybe this will help others to give you a more accurate answer which will lead you the right way.
This should help you get started. It helped me. From there you can figure out what else you want to add: Complete guide wordpress blogging
I usually recommend: 1) Akismet (which really should be part of the core already) 2) Google Sitemap 3) Some good contact form to hide your email link and stop spam (I use secure and Accessible Contact form) 4) Feedburner Replacement 5) WP-Cache, if you have lots of traffic, but be forewarned, it is buggy and has caused me lots of problems if I am editting posts while it is turned on, so I disable it. My SEO consultant is developing a list of enhancements that he has made to my site, so you can visit Search Engine Optimization Tips 4 WordPress Blogs as he updates the list of improvements that he made to my site. Hope this helps, Rich
It will only be a content site and I will like to make it to have the look of a website. I am fed up with Drupal and Joomla...
You should try these: + Poll modules. + Recent Comments + Feed 2 Post for automatic posts and others related to your niche.