sage VS timber

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.

Use Timber for templating https://github.com/timber/timber

I’ve used timber and then built of their example theme. I can share a skeleton example of my base theme that incorporates vue and vite if you’re interested!

Would just drop underscore and go for https://github.com/timber/timber with their starter theme.

Finally, since Wordpress by default doesn't have a templating language you might be annoyed by mixing HTML/PHP for templates at first. I could recommend Timber to add Twig template support to your theme. It's helped me out a great deal in cleaning up messy intermixed presentation files.

Timber or Sage as you prefer !

ACF let you make all your custom fields and assign them literally anywhere. Timber brings Twig to Wordpress so you can have your views in twig files and your logic on php files and have a neat, modular, tidy, mantainable theme without having to deal with those mixed php/html nightmares you usually see.

Ya know, one more thing you might want to just look through: Timber/Timber.

Your best bet are starter themes using the Twig templating language which is similar to the templating languages you may already know.

Timber : https://timber.github.io/docs/