Custom development ideas – Please advice on my options

  • So i decided to give WP a shot around my idea.

    The idea is more or less built around the notion of “private diaring”. this would be the base and i will built around it. I played a little bit with WP and i am ready to give it a try. Before this i need advice an on my ideas about how to do it.

    1) Private diaring.
    This should be the core and i will need to do it using only frontend parts. I need the user to be able to input his diary log simple by composing his message and choosing categories/tags. If i dont do this nativelly then i will not pursue WP further of course.

    2) Encrypting content in db. I suppose i will have to use filters to do this.

    3) Administration functionality. I will need this to be in frontend, and not backend. I need the user to manage his profile and other info from frontend.

    Generally i need WP to behave like a “normal” site with core functionality plus a user profile area.

    What you think , should i give WP a try?

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  • You could certainly do it, but I can tell you right now it will take a lot of time and a lot of modifications.

    I have found that if you want to drastically change WP functionality, your best bet is to write a plugin. In a plugin you can make changes to core and theme functions all the while avoiding conflicts if you do any updates.

    Essentially what you are wanting to do is make a WordPress site for each person that comes to your site…not impossible, but it doesn’t seem very practical. If you have access to a server and can virtualize some web servers from it, you could do basically the same thing.

    Thread Starter earthdog

    (@earthdog)

    I like wp simplicity and coding, but on the other hand if it seems too much of a stretch i wouldn’t upset WP to make it be something that is not. hence the question here.. thanks for your input…

    Laravel 5 seems more pretty as time oasses by ??

    WP is nice if you want a simple out of the box solution. Something of the magnitude you want though, yeah, you’re best bet is taking the time and setting up something with Laravel or even Zend.

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