sage VS acf-composer

Hey there!

Using Django or Flask might be overkill for what you're trying to do. I suggest you to stick with WordPress, but check out the Sage/root style over at https://roots.io/sage.

It's not the classic WordPress; it's a modern, more secure version.

Also only use plugins when you absolutely have to, and if you do, stick with the pros (i.e. Gravityforms).

I've used WP alot (more than 1000s of websites) and I'm also using Python with Flask and FastAPI (but never used Django).

We develop custom themes with sage and acf blocks 10/10, you should try it.. https://roots.io/sage/

If you do ultimately end up having to build in WordPress I'd recommend checking out sage. https://roots.io/sage/

Well, WordPress keeps moving towards drag n drop / visual editing and that makes everything more complicated for people who just want a system to manage data. There are people out there who have invested a ton of time to try and bridge the gap between the direction of wordpress and modern templating features like Sage by Roots (https://roots.io/sage/)

A minimal theme combining Roots Sage 10 and Bootstrap 5.2 (at the time of writing this article 5.3 was an alpha release). and making use of the plugins in places.

Sage starter theme by Roots - this gives us the Blade template engine that we are familiar with from Laravel.

ACF builder is indeed the way to go. Used that and https://github.com/Log1x/acf-composer when used in combination with Sage 10.

I think Wordpress is a fine starting point. You could also checkout a project called Sage => https://roots.io/sage/ + their other tools such as trellis (helps with local/production env setup). Also whenever i am building a website/app with Wordpress, i tend to avoid page builders and just use ACF (you can then use https://github.com/Log1x/acf-composer to easily create Gutenberg blocks, custom fields etc.)