Hello guys im trying to create a student portal for my thesis i want to know what'
s the best backend, Wordpress or create your own back end? Im starting from the scratch and im new to html and css. Please can someone give me suggestions or ideas? Thanks guys.
Wordpress is designed for organizing content, like blogs, static content or shops, not handling users registration, interactivity, or walled-off content. It might be possible to accomplish this with Wordpress, but it won't be fast, elegant or cheap. I would suggest looking at a custom HTML solution with a mix of libraries to handle your requirements.
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I'm looking to help a friend who needs a website for his project. I know wordpress a little, but there might be better options.
The needs are:
- have a splash screen prompting for region (like this site)
- have some pages available only for a given region.
- allow the non-it guy to update the contents.
Wordpress is the only one I know as web design isn't my specialty. I'd have gone for a template like Avada, but again, better leads are more than welcome.
Thanks in advance for your inputs!
Ok, the downvote really helped me and certainly will help other users as there's no comment whatsoever explaining why this post is bad. Don't give leads or guidance by the way.
So, whatever. I found a solution to this. The following plugin works like a charm:
https://www.fla-shop.com/products/wp-plugins/world/continents/
A simple purchase gives total control and removes the watermark. The best part regarding my need was the capability to write custom callback code as explained in this article.
https://www.fla-shop.com/blog/adding-custom-javascript-to-the-map/
Sorry for my title. I just want to ask simple question. I have a project now and I used Opencart because I am creating an ecommerce type of website. And I really understand how opencart works. Now my question is, I have another project this project is more on displaying company's profile and blog. So much more on posting articles. Now is it right for me to use Opencart for this? What I think is just create a custom functionality for this. And remove all the non related functions.
Do I need to switch to another CMS? Or can I still use Opencart?
If it is not right to use Opencart. I am planning to study other CMS. So my choice are Wordpress or Joomla.
Ok that's all. Thanks.
I think the solution you are looking for is probably MijoShop: http://miwisoft.com/joomla-extensions/mijoshop-joomla-shopping-cart
MijoShop is based on OpenCart but runs on Joomla so you get the best of both worlds.
I am basically a Java/Oracle guy. I was told that it is possible to build any simple Web app with Wordpress.
I successfully installed Wordpress on my machine and am trying to create a text book app. For this purpose, it is an employee database, with fields Name, Address, Department, Designation. I need to have the usual create/edit/search/delete functionality.
The problem with Wordpress is, I really don't know where to start, or how to customize pages.
Am I barking up the wrong tree? Is Wordpress more for blogging/news style websites than for traditional database applications? If not, how do I customize Wordpress to create the application described above?
Thanking you in advance.
Viability
Wordpress is a great system for many different applications, not just blogging/news style websites.
There are many articles out there that go in to great depth on this, but here is a good one right of: http://torquemag.io/app-dev/
Getting Started
As with any project, there clearly is more than one way to skin this cat, but right off, here are some basics I'd recommend you check out about customizing your Wordpress install:
How to create a child theme: http://codex.wordpress.org/Child_Themes
How to create a page template: http://codex.wordpress.org/Page_Templates
How to develop a plugin: http://codex.wordpress.org/Writing_a_Plugin
Plugins
In addition to this, i'd highly recommend a few plugins, which will help make things easy for you:
Advanced Custom Fields
•Makes it really easy to add Custom Fields, to allow you to store custom information, associated with a post, page, taxonomy, user etc. really easy to use, has great documentation and support, as well as a really nice UI. I'd also recommend paying the 25 bucks for the repeater field, which is really useful.
Custom Post Type UI
•Easy way to add custom post types to your wordpress instal, the default post types are: posts, links, pages. With this plugin you can add custom post types for things like say, employees.
Conclusion
In conclusion, I don't think you're barking up the wrong tree, I think that wordpress can be a simple elegant solution for a web application, and can easily be molded into almost anything you can come up with.
For developed such kinds of application you need to develop a wordpress plugins. You can handle any kinds of database operation there. You can add create/edit/search/delete functionality
bit stuck at the moment and searching for an answer is not really paying off.
I am making a new site in drupal. What I basically want to do is...
An end user can come along, set up a shop and add multiple products.
therefor resulting in a site that has multiple shops that are managed by the user themselves.
Is this possible in Drupal?
any ideas or references to point me in the right direction ?
thanks in advance
Drupal can do what you have stated. All you need to do is add functionality to it example http://drupal.org/project/commerce
This will allow you to acheive 90% of what you want.
I would suggest you buy a book on drupal and read through that book first. If you don't know what modules are and are fresh of the boat.
The learning curve is not very steep. If you are a programmer then its going to be fun for you but if you are not then its best just to hire someone.
Let me know if you need more help.
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I am a web Designer that recently decided to expand into developer waters as well :). What I have in mind is to build an elaborate portfolio site that will also contain a blog. The sites sections will be standard for such a project - something like Home, About, Portfolio, Contact and Blog.
The Home page will contain some static parts but also feeds from the latest additions to the portfolio and the blog.
The Portfolio page will have sections on the different types of portfolio pieces (like logo, print, web etc).
The About will be completely static.
The Contact page will be static and will have a contact form.
The Blog page will basically have your standard WordPress blog structure.
At first I was thinking of doing the whole thing in WordPress (since I already have some experience with it) but what got me thinking about different options was the portfolio part. I want the portfolio page to be quite differently stylized than the blog page and yet I want to have the possibility of doing quick and easy additions to it trough an admin panel.
So please give me suggestions and direction about what would be best for me to do? Is this thing possible with WordPress? Should I instead code the whole project with CodeIgniter (or a similar framework)?
I am quite good with HTML & CSS. Comfortable with jQuery. Trying to get better with PHP :).
I am willing to learn and improve and wouldn't mind trying a CMS or a Framework that Ive not had experience with before.
Thank you.
Wordpress is more than sufficient. You might want to find some plugins that allow you to add special content like videos, scripts and other things to portfolio pages. Also knowing html, css well is important if you want to build or modify a theme a lot to your liking. It is also very helpful to know some php if not be very experienced with it. MySql is helpful as well but not as need to know.
This Wordpress PHP function sheet is very helpful at times.
The Wordpress Codex page is also very good. Not an end all be all, you'll still need to know how to do things on your own, but it defiantly will get the ball rolling if want want any custom functions, or want to modify functions.
If you know wordpress a little bit, I hope you will able to make your desired project. Using wp you can do several types of project.
Read some wp books or tutorial and learn wp functions.
Essential wp functions sheet https://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference
I hope it will help you.