I’ve been following the development of this plugin for two weeks and it sounds very promising. As it says, it’s a plugin to convert a Wordpress blog into a basic CMS, and it’s completely designed for the newest version, 2.5. Back then Wordpress 2.5 wasn’t officially released, and this plugin has underwent testing from several test bloggers. This plugin pares down the admin area for editors so that they can only focus on changing static page content. It’s a great tool for anyone just looking to use Wordpress for building a simple website without all the clutter that comes with other CMSes such as Joomla. So if you are thinking of making a few extra sites on your own and just need the basics, you can break them out in a snap.

Here’s the plugin from Ryan Hellyer’s own site.

And it’s also available on the official Wordpress site.

Although it looks like it, there’s nothing big going on behind the scenes when the plugin is activated. This plugin uses some CSS trickery to hide admin page elements and simplify the view. All the original Wordpress functionality is left intact for the administrator.