Want to build a WordPress website that involves:

1. Front-end User registration (with Captcha)

2. On front-end username / password for login on top of all pages. Also, login via Facebook / Twitter is allowed

3. Logged in users can create (within some configurable limit like 40 or 50) the following:

– Articles (/posts)
– Multiple Business profile pages for their companies
– Upload images (shown on front-end under Gallery link)
– Questions (that will show under ‘Ask an Expert’)

NOTE: Two Taxonomies are 1. Areas 2.Products which will have several options, Example, Areas = Dining, Drawing, Kitchen, Toilets…
Products = Artwork, Furniture, Lighting …

All Articles, Business Profiles, Gallery images and Questions must be related to one or more of types of the Two Taxonomies (Areas & Products). For example, an Article can be associated with Dining (Area type) and Artwork (Product type)

4. Admin: Advertisement management, Subscribe to Newsletter, Yoast SEO plugins are required. Admin can mark these items as Featured
=> Business page, Article, Question, Gallery Image

5. On front-end:

– Two column (most pages), One column (one or two pages)

– Advertisements & Subscribe form will be visible on all pages

– Directory of Business pages, Gallery, Article-list and Question-Answer list will be separate pages linked from menu-items.

– On the pages of List of Business pages, Gallery, Article-list and list of Question-Answers, search box will be there.

Article search by (Author name, keywords, Product, Area)
Gallery Image search by (Product, Area)
Business Pages Search by (name, location of registered user, Product, Area), Questions (Product, Area, Keywords)

– One page for each Product / Area option like one page for dining, one page for artwork.

– One page template that shows featured articles or featured images.

Q1: I can do medium PhP and handle responsive CSS. Is there a comprehensive plugin that can help build the above with minimal coding?

Q2. If a plugin like Types or ACF cannot handle most of this should I be looking at a framework like Genesis or is there too much of a learning curve for a framework?

I am looking for some feedback from the community. I am planning to build a web application and was wondering if Word press would be a good solution for it. My requirements for the web application are as follows:
1.The application must be built on responsive design, so compatible with desktop, laptop, tablets and mobile device
2.The application has to be all browser compatible
3.The application needs to have Super Admin/Admin and User roles, since there will be many microsites.
4.The application should have the ability to create micro site
5. It should be able to support 1000’s of microsites
6.Each microsite no matter how big it is should load within seconds
7.The application has to be built on open structure so it can be integrated with third party widgets, e.g. forms module, SMS texting service, payment processing etc. It should be quite scalable and flexible as we plan to add more widgets in the future like survey, forms etc.
8.The application has to be secure including SSL configurable and data encrypted.

Was wondering if wordpress would be a good solution for the requirements listed above. Sorry for the long posting.

Thank you for your feedback.

Ajay

I am (aiming to) create a personal site which will contain embedded youtube videos. I am familiar with Drupal CMS (and responsive sites, I want to use 978gs) and am trying to get my head around how to use wordpress as a cms after seeing so many awesome sites built using it.

I am just going to embed videos I like and categorize them etc… just for fun and a bit of nostalgia.

Anyway, are there ‘content types’ in wordpress (or ‘document types’ in case any of you have used umbraco cms)? I’ve been playing around with it for a few hours and enjoying the UI so far, very intuitive. I could just do with a few pointers of how it works as a CMS.

Do I set up a new ‘page’ with these fields? Then how do I list these pages, each as a shortened teaser? Is stuff like this done with a plugin, or by editing the php files? Or adding new templates? Too many questions I know, wish I knew someone who worked with wordpress who could come round and explain the basics!

For example, if I was setting this up in Drupal, I would need a content type called ‘video’ which would contain a URL to the youtube page, a field for tags, a way of categorizing the post (maybe checkboxes or dropdown), and a body field for a bit of guff about the video. I would then use views module to list these ‘nodes’ in another page in a blog type format (say, www.mysite.com/videos), a little thumbnail, teaser body text, ‘see more’ link, that kind of stuff with 10 items per page and pager.

Then all the usual stuff, latest vids in sidebar, latest comments, categories etc.

Any input or pointing in the right direction would be most appreciated. Thanks.

Sam.

I have been trying to follow the steps in the book: WordPress 2.8 Theme Design which has been great EXCEPT it is about designing a blog theme. So after a point it’s not longer helpful.

I have created a CSS/HTML design and have successfully cut it up into templates (sidebar, header, footer, etc.), and have index.php, home.php, 404.php template pages too. These are all loaded in a working Themes file and they do assemble into pages. I can “add a page” and it appears on the list in the admin; I can edit the theme files in the admin, but I can’t place or remove content on the pages through the admin.

I have a plugin activated called .html on PAGES which is allowing me to name my pages the way I want – I don’t know if that’s creating a problem or if I should activate after I get other things working?

Otherwise, is there something I need to do that I haven’t that will allow me to actually edit PAGES through the admin?

can anyone please point me in the right direction about using WP as a CMS for simple brochure websites? One thing in particular I need is the ability to create custom contents fields on top of the built in main text area field I get in a page. Also, I need a solution which is stable (not buggy) and simple to use. Otherwise I reckon it’s better to turn to other CMS modules directly. I like WP for it’s back end interface and HTML output, that’s why I’d like to use it.

Thanks in advance.

I have a html (contact.html, articles.html) website and a WordPress blog installed in a sub-directory. I would like to integrate WordPress into my site and use it as a CMS.

All the articles I’ve come across only explain how to use WordPress in a new website. Since mine’s been up for sometime now, I’m bothered about how to retain my pages.

Thanks for your help and All the best

I’ve got a client who is enamored with WordPress (smart guy!) and wants me to do something really new (at least to me) with it:

He’s in network marketing and has a growing team of distributors. He wants me to build him a site that his distributors (existing and new) can then “purchase one just like it”, which would be hosted in a subdomain. He wants the content for their purchased sites to come from his site (for consistency of the message) and yet provide the ability for them to each blog separately (hence his idea that their sites should be replicas of his hosted in a subdomain). And of course, he wants as much of this process to be automatic as possible. Oh, and to make things really entertaining, the content of the main site will change potentially once a quarter, so then all the replicated sites will need to be updated accordingly, also as “automatically” as possible. Yee haw, eh? (Where’s the Easy Button? LOL)

In my pre-WordPress days, I have built sites like this (I call them replicating sites) and they’ve been really only one site (set of pages) that dynamically insert contact information of the proper distributor into the page based on a “member id” that is passed to a script, retrieved from a database and then displayed on the page. I’d recommend a structure like this to him, except he wants all of his distributors to be able to individually blog and have their own URL (for marketing purposes.) And he loves WordPress, so he wants them blogging in WordPress.

Sitting here, I can think of a couple of ways to approach this, but each of them have their issues and don’t get me all the way to the end product the client wants. To make matters worse (or at the very least more challenging), it needs to be a scalable solution because he’s got a couple hundred distributors right now and projects (based on his growth Y-T-D) that he’ll have over a 1000 by next summer.

I’m open to any creative solutions you all might suggest. The bare minimum requirements are: replicable, scalable and utilizes WordPress for blogging.

Yeah, I know…I don’t want much, huh?

Please reply before my brain melts and runs out my ears.

Thanks in advance,
Suzanne