I have been reading alot about what CMS features to add to WordPress.  One of the most requested features is the inclusion of a more robust templating system.

With the recent relaunch of blogger by parent google I think that this is an even more relevant path to follow.

The crux of the matter is that WordPress was not designed to be a CMS.  And I agree, there is no real advantage for WP to try and compete with some of the established systems out there.

However I do think that some features of the CMS would be good to fold into WP.  Case in point, a robust templating system coupled with a decent selection of pre-built templates.  This would be trivial to do really, one solution could be:

• Adding a theme folder within the wp-content folder
• Adding a Template option to the wp-admin UI, either under the actual template tab, or as a preference under options.
• This option would basically be <?php echo get_setting('template'); ?> .   The user would set which template they would like to use, which would just be a CSS file really.  Then when called in your index file it would output $siteurl/userselectedCSSsheet/.

This would be less than trivial and give users another reason to use this software, and might be another point in our column when Hosting Companies are looking for blogging software to install by deafult.