I have got my pretty large and complex website built in laravel and was reading about which cms to use. I was considering using wordpress as its very easy to use and manage. Does anyone have any advice about my suggestion? Any limits or downfalls with using wordpress to develop?
Using wordpress as a cms for laravel
- Thread starter Mr Torres
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I don't see any real problem of using WP with laravel, except for the case if you need to share the session cookie. You could easily create a blog folder in the public portion of your laravel app (not quite sure what the folder is called, but I am sure there will be one). Just match the theme, and make proper navigation.
Im not a developer at all but I manage some other basic sites using wordpress so I thought since i sort of know the platform it would be best to use this . I just dont want to limit my site or do this if it is a less superior option as im paying the big $ for this website . I looked for lots of cms with laravel ideas and none of the websites showed wordpress in the recommendation
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Well, WP has many disadvantages. It is fine for a blogging project, but once you start making advanced features with it; it starts making things wayy too much complicated. The problem with wp is the db structure and the CRUD generation (or the lack of it). In frameworks like Yii2, it takes 2 minutes to make a model from a db table, and CRUD operations for it; including all the validations. In wp, it will take you a week probably. Laravel also has something similar, but there's no GUI afaik.
You might have to pay more money per hour to the dev, but it will ultimately save you money in the long run. The total coding time would be much lesser. The code will be better maintainable, and easier to do further development.
If you ask me, I would say go for Yii2/Laravel.
drdankmendez
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This all depends on the developer. I cannot count the number of times I had to start from scratch on a project because the existing code/db was spaghetti and bubblegum. The one thing I will give to using wordpress as a core is that it tends to be easier to do work after other developers.
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Yeah, developer experience does matter. Otherwise it often becomes Fat Controller Thin Model apps, with non reusable code.