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I’m new to web development. I’m hosting a WordPress site using Dreamhost. My site has dynamic web pages but it’s not using SQL, instead I’m using Airtable (a Google sheets style platform) to write and manipulate all of my data. I use Make.com to trigger events that update the data in my Airtable, and finally, I created a field in Airtable that converts all this data to HTML.
Then I use Make.com to update a WordPress post with the HTML. Like I said, this works but I believe it isn’t the most efficient way of creating dynamic pages. My question is, should I be learning or hiring a developer to transfer or copy the data from my Airtable to an SQL database that does the same thing?
Your input is appreciated.
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I’ll give you my MBA response: what is the (perceived) value you’ll gain from recreating it in SQL?
Granddad: if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it.
It your site is doing what you need it to do and it’s not compromising security and/or performance, then it’s fine.
Is what you’re doing funky? Sure. But if there’s no perceived downside, then let it run.
Oh man. There’s so much to unpack here. Why are you doing it like this?
Are you sure that HTML isn’t in fact being stored in the DB in the way certain page builders do (using the main content area with shortcodes)?