Getting started on a data driven website

  • Hi

    I’ve developed a couple of very simple WordPress websites in the past, but now I need to do something more complicated and I’m hoping to get some advice.

    I need to create a web site in which:

    1) the user is directed to the website via a url that includes a unique parameter string. For example

    https://www.mynewsite.com/examplestring

    2) the website then looks up the parameter examplestring in a database that it holds internally, and then displays a slightly different web page to the user depending on the database contents for examplestring. I would anticipate that there will eventually be thousands of entries in the database, so that is thousands of slightly different pages that I need to be able to display, but they will also be based on one template.

    I’m stuck on where to start. From Googling I think that what I want to create is a “data driven” website (or web app), but I haven’t found any accessible examples of how to build one of these using WordPress.

    Thanks in advance for any help.

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  • Hello KimDW,

    You could certainly achieve something like this right out of the box with WordPress. For example, if you set your site’s permalinks to use Post Name, every page you create in the page editor will be given a unique URL based on a string you set. You could have unique content for each page, and even display unique styles for each page by customizing your theme’s CSS.

    If you needed something more complex, you could search for a plugin that does what you require, or even build your own custom plugin.

    The Advanced Forums contain great discussion of people who want to go above and beyond WordPress’ default features.

    Thread Starter KimDW

    (@kimdw)

    Thanks Rocco

    I’ll give it a go and report back on what I find.

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