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I heard about wordpress a some years ago from a friend and all I thought about wordpress was that it was a drag and drop builder. That was in 2016. My whole career has been all about providing solution with HTML, CSS, Javascript & PHP, using Dreamweaver as an editor. Then in 2019, a friend drew me closer to wordpress, I was taken by surprise as I noticed its ability (and wide range) of plugins that greatly extends wordpress functionality, themes and even workable templates. I began adopting wordpress as a “project deadline escape route ” given its relative ease”, at least, basically –
but, as a CMS, can wordpress handle complex, more demanding, custom, specific business logic applications?
If you can write it in PHP, then yes. WordPress isn’t the limitation here.
WordPress.org is limitless, providing you write decent php. Most commercial webshops are driven by wordpress/woocommerce.
What special, ahum Dreamweaver, stuff would you need?
The limitation with what you are asking would be in the server and language of choice for the logic, not the hosting application.
While Wordrpess is PHP based that doesn’t limit you to using PHP to handle your complex logic. You can use PHP and Javascript to send ajax calls back to another application running on the server in any language as long as the server supports it.
TLDR yes
In my opinion, this is currently the cheapest way to check if an idea is worth coding. If you write it solidly in PHP. At some point you will need to switch to a more robust platform like Symfony or Laravel.
I have built some pretty complex apps using WP as the scaffolding and they work great.
You’ve been using Dreamweaver to code PHP?
No. WordPress cannot support complex business logic applications. As others have noted, you will need to constantly suppress or circumvent it to achieve your goals.
I know this as a WordPress expert with over 15 years of experience and active commercial plugins being sold that are very complex. Good luck.