Linking Wordpress and Salesforce

Hi everyone

Real noob here! I tried searching for this, both on the Treehouse forums and elsewhere online, but was unable to find an answer I understood.

I've been tasked at work with exploring whether we can link our Wordpress site with data from Salesforce. The most likely use is for us to dynamically update a post with one or more data points, once these have been created in Salesforce. Once we have done this, we want to go further and create further posts based on the equivalent data points from a wider set of articles.

(To be clear, our first step will be to create a collection of articles about schools and include a set of data point within each of these that lists useful information like number of students, exam results, gender of students and so forth. This information may change once a year, so we will use data collection to create records in Salesforce- we have made the decision to keep all of our data in Salesforce as this data is likely to be required on several different websites.. We then want to be able to either automatically connect the Salesforce data to the specific data points in the article, and have e.g. the number of pupils in a school automatically updated, saving us having to manually edit hundreds of articles).

Firstly, is this possible? If so, what would I need to learn to be able to do this? (At present I am familiar with HTML and CSS. I am capable of very rough editing of PHP files, but little more). I am willing to learn, but at present am struggling to know what it is I should be learning! Alternatively, I imagine this may have been done before, and if so can anyone recommend a useful plugin or resource that would help?

I apologise if this is repeat info; again, I tried searching in multiple locations and couldn't find a useful answer to me, although I accept this may be due to my lack of knowledge!

Thanks

Mike