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Lately I’ve been thinking a lot about building a website/blog/community oriented site. However I can’t decide if it’s a good idea to build it using WordPress as a base.
I’ve been reading around the Internet, and I’ve seen that many users have trouble with WordPress using lot of CPU and other resource related problems.
So, what do you think? Is it wise to actually build an application based on WordPress? Or it would probably lead to undesired results?
Any opinions would help.
WordPress is quite flexible once you get the hang of its WordPress Loop, Page Templates and how to create a customised homepage. Using some plugins, such as the Page Redirect To and Custom Taxonomy, you can have a pseudo-CMS. There are also widgets and plugins that let WordPress mimics CMS-like behaviour, such as listing all sub-pages within a pages, customize how categories are shown and etc.
If you can handle the WordPress loop and use Page Templates, WordPress is okay to build on-top of. However, its database schema is quite confusing. Depending on your goals, you may want to use CodeIgniter or something else.