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Originally Posted by deltav
Yeah, I meant in no way suited for an *adult* membership site. But I suppose your YMMV on that one. Would be curious to hear about specific adult subscription sites that do use WP for delivering lots of video amongst other things. In my experience - among other gripes - it just felt clunky & slow.
Thanks for the Awiz heads-up, what were the major problems you ran into with it? At a glance it does indeed look outdated, wasn't sure if that was more a result of their demo design or if it's built into the CMS so to speak. Any alternate recs then?
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About WP, I know there are many sites using it for adult, don't know which ones, though, but do a search in this board and you'll find it. As for delivering MASSIVE amount of video, even if not adult....
http://tv.msnbc.com/ ,
http://www.bbcamerica.com/ or
http://www.rollingstones.com/ should give you an idea. Basically, if it's good for MSNBC or BBC I'm pretty sure it would be more than enough for any porn site, specially a small one.
See the problem with WP is that most people thinks of it as a "finished" product, when in fact is a time saving framework. Thus, there's ABSOLUTELY NOTHING you can do with any CMS that you can't do with WP, as long as you customize it to your needs. The amount of knowledge you have (or money you're willing to invest) will define the site you'll have, as in everything.
Also, delivering video is a server thing. As easy as that. You can have any video oriented CMS in the world, and the final result will always depend on... your server. The difference is that with any "off the shelf" CMS, you're stuck with what you have. There's nothing that you can do about it. With WordPress (or Joomla, or Drupal, or any other open source CMS), the possibilities are endless. And I'm talking about FREE possibilities, let alone if you know you way to customize or are willing to invest money.
As for AWiz, sorry, I really don't remember the details since a long time has passed since I used it and can't recall the specifics other than it was extremely simplistic, outdated and lacked any flexibility. Just adding some AJAX script was a nightmare.
Anyway, as far as CMS goes, this is my order (ordered better to worse):
Open Source (WP, Joomla, Drupal)
ElevatedX
Carma
AWiz
there a few more like POrnCMS, but I have no experience with it so can't tell how good it is