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Our website TheCredence.Com is running on wordpress and after creating many many sites on wordpress, I can safely say that Wordpress is a very versatile tool, and if you use it correctly (by knowing some basics of how links are generated by the Wordpress angine) you can create a simple, fast and east to use Content Management system. Now for CMS, I prefers to use Drupal which I feels is suitable for power users but this doesn't mean wordpress can not be used as a CMS. Infact with so many wordpress addons, wordpress can be easily converted into community driven portal or something of similar sort. So lets
First, go and download the latest version of Wordpress:
http://wordpress.com And follow the instructions on installing.
Once you’ve gotten it up and running, what you are going to want to do is plan ahead on how you want your site to work. This is important- before you do anything else you need to plan this out. You will save yourself a lot of work and a lot of headaches if you get it correct the first time.
How this works:
A CMS is basically a way of running a website in the same way most people run blogs- in a way that is easy to update without accessing the code underneath the site. Before we move on, we must first figure out how each page in our website will act.
There are two ways a webpage can act: static content and dynamic content. Dynamic content is a page set up like a blog, with lots of content that changes. Static pages are usually a chunk of mostly unchanging content.
For example, a news page or a projects page could be considered dynamic. An about page or a home page could be considered static. After you are done deciding what pages you want on your website, what kinds of pages they are, you will want to decide which pages will allow visitors to the site to comment.
When your site map is finished, it is time to get started. First, go into wordpress as administrator. We’ll start with the easy stuff, the static content pages. To create a static content page, just click on the Write tab, and then the Write Page tab.
Type in a name for your Page title and then the page content. Do this for every static page. When you are done, it is time to create the dynamic pages.
First, go into the manage tab, and click on categories. These categories will be the name of you dynamic pages. Whenever you wan to create content for your dynamic pages, just click on write tab and then the write post tab. Enter in content and then check off the category for the page on the right.
And now to make this all work in the templates. It’s fairly simple- you just create links in the template to access the content. For static pages your link would look like this:
<a href=”?pageid=static_page”>link</a>
Where static_page is the page id of the static page you wish to display. You can find this by going into the Manage tab, and then clicking on the Pages tab. The page id is the number to the left of the page.
For dynamic pages your link would look like this:
<a href=”?catid=dynamic_page”>link</a>
Where dynamic_page is the category id of the dynamic page you wish to display. You can find this by going into the Manage tab, and then clicking on the categories tab. The id is the number to the left of the page.
And that’s all there is to it. This is a very basic tutorial on using wordpress as a CMS. If you are still not sure about it, than my advice is to just use it and see yourself how far can you go. 
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