sage VS wd_s

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.

Or if you would prefer underscores with integrated build tools, sass support, js concatenation, etc. you can check out Webdevstudios _shttps://github.com/WebDevStudios/wd_s

I would setup a local development environment using a tool like https://localwp.com/ and install Wordpress's development starter theme Underscores (or Web Dev Studios fork of Underscores which contains build tools/webpack) and just get familiar with the baseline layout of a wordpress theme.

Some starter themes for devs support Tailwind CSS, besides Roots/Sage those are: wd_s, wpemerge, wordplate (they use an abstraction on top of webpack called Laravel Mix, there are official Tailwind docs for it).

Nice project. What's your plan if Underscores doesn't get updated anymore? There is a similar project called wd_s, also using Tailwind.

You might be interested in our starter theme wd_s https://github.com/WebDevStudios/wd_s

Here are thoughts and an interesting discussion about starter themes from a little while back. Currently I'd pick between wd_s and the mentioned TT1 Blocks theme.

But I highly recommend skeleton theme like underscores or wd_s https://github.com/WebDevStudios/wd_s/blob/main/README.md

wd_s seems to be a good upgrade from _s.

wd_s, a modern starter theme for WP hackers that follows WP standards.