Hi – so I’m new to WP but I’m familiar with what it is generally and its plug-in eco system capabilities.
I currently run a website that is hand coded and uses plain PHP 7.x and MySQL 8.x for just about everything (frontend and backend services).
A few details about the site before my questions below:
1) I sell two digital products on the site (PDFs that get emailed after payment)
2) I use Stripe as my payment processor and their hosted payment form.
3) I provide a search functionality box (one form field like Google) that shows a lot of data to users via different views that i currently have setup in PHP when they search for an ID (e.g. search for ABC12345668) -> domain.com/id/ABC12345668/
4) I want to introduce member and subscription based functionality. Currently, you can sign up for a free account, which shows a slightly different view when searching for data, but that’s it.
So my issues are:
1) I no longer want to manage custom user/member code.
2) I don’t want to hand code a subscription service. This is painful.
3) I need to introduce blog pages (without hand coding each article) so I can have more content to share and even invite others to write on my behalf.
4) Biggest of all, I need to start farming out the frontend of the site to developers to help me continue growing it easily (vs me doing everything myself). I can’t scale anymore because I don’t have the time and I’m not good at design and frontend things. If I can easily leverage my WordPress developers to built out new pages while I handle the backend/data stuff, it will take the burden off of me.
My initial thought is WP would make a lot of this easy BUT … can it handle everything I’m looking for including a data heavy site with custom search functionality that has landing pages per ID (millions of them) as I indicated above?
I have a separate database full of the data that would need to be retained of course (e.g. I don’t think I could just move it into the WP database?). I also do Apache URL rewriting to support clean URLs for the data IDs that people search for (like I showed above). I am comfortable self hosting on AWS, so no issue managing the instance and DB host.
I know the above is a lot but I’d love some thoughts/ideas from the experts out there. I tried searching for advanced WP examples or WP examples of data heavy sites but couldn’t find anything.
Would love everyone’s opinion. Thank you in advance.
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