Hi all,
I need to replace an old custom PHP CMS with WordPress – Joomla or Drupal are also a possibility but, after installing all three of them and getting to know them a little, I’d like to use WordPress. I know PHP well but none of these frameworks in detail.
I have been doing a lot of reading on various page builders vs custom templates and spent some time looking at Elementor and Breakdance. It seems like the page builders will save me some time but may be overkill both in terms of functionality and price for someone who only needs to create one site with very specific needs and doesn’t mind getting into some PHP to do it.
The site itself is the home site for a single game ([www.aardwolf.com](https://www.aardwolf.com)). It has a game news / blog as you’d expect then a decent amount of technical Lua scripting information and some pages that are custom apps where the whole page is rendered by something else. The “who is online” section for example is calling a PHP program that connects to the game via a TCP socket and the game itself sends back that HTML. Another page is an embedded web client. There are also some Javascript apps on a really old instance of Mambo created by someone else that I need to roll into the new platform. Those pages have some very specific layout requirements and may need to be different from each other.
Based on what I have read so far it “feels” like I should jump in and learn how to make my own template, or start with a barebones template vs a page builder.
Hoping to get some input from people much more familiar with what can be done with WordPress and the different approaches to creating a site. Thanks!
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