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WordPress

Posted by Andrew Batz
Andrew Batz
9,846 Points

am I headed in the right direction?

I want to build something similar to a twitter clone, with a small number of users that can login, make a post, and have all the posts show on their profile page. Am I right in assuming I can use Wordpress to do this? I'd like to have some reenforcement on this before I dedicate 30 hours to learning wordpress if it won't meet my needs.

1 Answer

Gianni Zamora
Gianni Zamora
9,547 Points
Gianni Zamora
Gianni Zamora
9,547 Points

Honestly I have not learned word press for the exact reason yet, because wordpress you can do many things but most people use it for blogging since it is a simple drag and drop type method. If you want to do it with wordpress that is fine except you would have to pay for themes, plugins, any thing else you might want to include. Instead I would take the time to learn full on stack development like html,css,javascript,php, ruby,jquery. Learning these will help establish your site to the best of your abilities. Not only that but If you successfully make a website like twitter that you developed on your own, so many doors would open for you as a developer if that is your goal.(it's mine) but if you just want to quickly make a site and hope that it will fulfill your requirements then go with wordpress.

I would learn how to do it as a full stack developer. It will be worth it in the long run.

Andrew Batz
Andrew Batz
9,846 Points

would you go with php or ruby then? I'm leaning ruby because that's what the real twitter is based on.