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Posted by Craig Watson
Craig Watson
27,930 Points

Using WordPress for a per used based application?

Hi everyone!

I am looking to build up a site than does a couple of things:

  • Allows a visitor to register with the site.
  • Customize some options that will stay specific to them when logged in.
  • Upload a logo / background image.
  • Fill in a form which they will use to take an order for their product and save each order for them to view later/update if needs be.

There is a few more things that would need to be done but none of which seem drastically complicated when thinking over what this site really needs to do. Above is nearly all of the features to be honest.

My main question before I jump in can this be done on a WordPress install?

I am hoping so because I know a little WordPress and have had some experience with user roles but this will be a big jump for me, however one im looking forward to.

Hope you can advise / guide ...

Craig

1 Answer

Luke Pettway
Luke Pettway
16,593 Points
Luke Pettway
Luke Pettway
16,593 Points

I think that WordPress could easily do all of the things mentioned, you could use WooCommerce or Easy Digital Downloads to manage the orders (which I think both have extensions for registering users. There are several ways to get front end downloads, I've used Gravity forms in the past to do user uploads.

As long as you aren't doing anything crazy with the user uploads or the per use product you should be able to do everything else you mentioned.

Craig Watson
Craig Watson
27,930 Points

Hi Luke!

Thanks for your reply :)

I will have a look into your suggestions and see where I get to with WordPress as the code base, the only stopping going straight for it with WP is that it feels a bit hacky for some reason.

Do you know what the conventional way of doing such a thing would be?

I do want to start this off really simple but in the right / best way possible even if I need to do a little live into something new...

Thanks

Luke Pettway
Luke Pettway
16,593 Points

WordPress has grown beyond being a blog and now it is even being decoupled and used with technologies like ReactJS for apps. So hack away!

If you weren't using WordPress, you could roll your own needs-specific CMS which does all of this, most of the things like managing user logins, file uploads, and the order system are pretty straight forward as they are problems that have been solved many times, so finding solutions for them should be easy.

The part where it all gets fuzzy revolves around the type of service/product you are offering. If you are taking that uploaded image and doing something with it such as creating custom graphics, it could get trickier.