Is WordPress for me?

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Hi all,

I’m new to coding and have taken introductory classes in HTML/CSS/JS/PHP/MySQL. It’s all quite overwhelming. I have set up a website that will accept submissions from a form and store them in a database, so I have \*some\* skill, but it’s quite basic.

I’d like to add functionality like members who have a login and password. And then have it so I automatically know who submitted a form, based on their login. I’ve looked into how to do this and I could probably work out how to code it, but it wouldn’t be easy for me.

I don’t really know what WordPress is but it seems like it would have a sort of plug in that would in a few clicks add this sort of functionality – is that right?

Here’s where it gets complicated – I will eventually want to add some functionality that won’t be supported in a plugin. Let’s say I wanted to add a condition that fields 3 & 4 in a form had to sum to either 8 or 10. I know how to do that using JavaScript – does WordPress allow me to custom edit my website pages using my own code?

Another thing I may want to do is to add games the members can play – let’s say they get ten true or false questions every day, their answers are logged in my database and then next day they can see how they did/the leaderboard. Presumably that’s not something explicitly supported by a plugin, so I’d have to do some coding myself. Does WordPress let me do this? Sorry if this is a silly question, but I’m genuinely confused as to what exactly WordPress does.

Thank you!

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