Is WordPress Great For This?

  • DamianGil

    (@damiangil)


    9 years, 7 months ago

    Hello, I need your help in order to make a decision regarding using WP as the CMS for the following project.

    I am building a industry specific ecommerce site and my three main features need to be:

    • Each company needs to create a user profile and with it, a custom page is given to create their public profile and a few pages to show profile information.
    • The site deals with searchable locations and dates. The profile needs a calendar and it gives locations and dates search-ability (both must qualify to be publicly searchable) and booking if the user wants to buy a service in that time/location.
    • The user profile needs to show the schedule, where the booking options are.

      • Profiles need to be SEO friendly.

      I want to know how easy is to tackle this with plugins in WP and how much custom code would I need to do to achieve this.

      Thanks for your insight.

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  • jnhghy

    (@jnhghy)

    9 years, 7 months ago

    Hi,
    This is possible with wordpress as it is with different cms and even custom cms/development … there are some plugins that will help you achieve this but I’m guessing they won’t do more then 20% of the job … you’ll end up probably not using a lot of them and develop a lot!
    This kind of project – IN MY OPINION – can’t be done in any cms without a lot of custom code and because of that … you can choose whatever cms you like and have experience with …
    You can have a look at wordpress multisite if you want to build the profiles as multisite(other solutions exists) also woocommerce is a very good plugin/framework for ecommerce. I havent used any location and calendar plugins (I’ve tested a few but end up building my own) … and wp is SEO friendly by default but there are also some nice plugins like yoast
    I like wordpress, I can develop fast in it and find resources, documentation and help fast with wordpress so I’d choose it, but this is a very subjective thing! It’s up to you, your skills and so on…

    Justina

    (@pokeraitis)

    9 years, 7 months ago

    Everything you wrote is absolutely possible to achieve with WordPress. However, it is also a 100% guarantee, that only plugins will not be enough, and some custom coding will also be needed.
    As was already written, in such case you can choose any CMS, but I always recommend WordPress, because in comparison to other CMSses, it has biggest community and highest number of developers – that means it is easiest with WP to get help (and cheapest!).
    Good luck with your project 😉

    Thread Starter DamianGil

    (@damiangil)

    9 years, 7 months ago

    Thanks for the feedback guys, it seems this can indeed be tackled with WP. I just have some doubts about the scheduling/booking per profile o entry.

    Justina

    (@pokeraitis)

    9 years, 6 months ago

    If you need help with that, just hit us up here 🙂

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