The most popular kid on the block for blog software has got to be Wordpress. It is used by well known corporations around the world, small businesses, and personal sites.  But, did you know that with the large arsenal of plug-ins that are available for Wordpress, it can be used for a lot more than just blogging.

Wordpress, for the small script that it is, could be compared to a Swiss Army Knife or the iTouch and iPhone for the amount of functions that it can fulfill and the number seems to be increasing. The last time I counted various uses, I came up with at least five. For those of you who are not sure what Wordpress can do outside of a standard blog, check out these uses.

• Website engine: Did you know that you could use Wordpress to run your website rather than using traditional HTML? With the right options set, you use Wordpress to display pages rather than posts which end up giving you the same effect as a web site except that it is dynamically generated.
• Shopping cart: Wordpress also has the capability e-commerce by adding a shopping cart plug-in. There are many tutorials on the web which demonstrate how to setup a Wordpress based shopping cart.
• Photo Gallery: For photographers out there who want to showcase their photos to the world, Wordpress can help you out here as well. There are a few plug-ins which extend the content management to support photos as content as the original nature of Wordpress is typewritten content, not photos.
• Membership Site: Membership sites are on the rise as the amount of profit to be earned on information grows. The core of a membership site is a plug-in which requires visitors to pay a fee via Paypal and other systems before getting access to the article. Memberships can be setup to be individual access, weekly, monthly or yearly.
• Contact Manager: Using the custom theme and plug-in from Rolopress.com, Wordpress can become a searchable contact manager. So, here’s your change to convert that old manual Rolodex into a easy to use contact manager that is accessible from any web browser.
• Dating Site: There is a lot of money to be made on the dating scene. Wordpress can also be morphed into a simple dating site as well, believe it or not.

With all these various types of uses, I’m sure with a little bit of imagination you can come up with a reason to employ WordPress to use in your next Internet project.