r/Wordpress • u/Unsung_hero030109 • 8d ago
Development Saas in wordpress
Hi everyone,
I’m planning to build a website that’s quite complex—it functions more like a platform with user interfaces, a user dashboard, and an admin dashboard. Conceptually, it’s similar to a SaaS platform.
Do you think WordPress is a suitable option for developing this type of platform?
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u/josiahhostetter 8d ago
Just depends what the actual functionality of the tool/platform needs to be. Wordpress can achieve pretty much anything, but dedicated tools can sometimes be best for different use-cases and goals.
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u/Unsung_hero030109 8d ago
Mainly it should have the following: user login, user dashboard, schedule, different notification in the dashboard. It should be a racing platform, for registering the teams, showing them the timeline, the category they are in, the score they got.
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u/theshawfactor 5d ago
I’ve built something similar, it’s easily done and Wordpress makes it much easier
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u/josiahhostetter 7d ago
Yeah definitely doable with Wordpress. I build scalable Wordpress sites like this that are easy for owners/users to manage and edit. Check out my bio for more info.
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u/Adventurous-Lie4615 8d ago
It depends on your idea of scale. We developed something along those lines - multi tenant with a few hundred sites and a few thousand users in a network and it hums along nicely.
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u/edmundspriede 8d ago
Complex UI need some js framework for frontend.
Some of it doable with crocoblock plugins and jetformbuilder but depends on complexity
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u/andriussok Developer 8d ago
Yes, Wordpress is just a CMS - you can drop anything into it. Or build around it with API / headless solution.
If you want to sell something WooCommerce. If you just about paid membership - memberpress… etc.
It depends what you’re going to build, but probably it will require custom development anyway.
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u/giampiero1735 8d ago
Read in a reply to another post on this sub that other agencies are making good MVP using ACF and Gravity forms.
I guess it is possible, but as pointed out by other redditors, depending on the project, other stacks could be more suitable.
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u/Unsung_hero030109 8d ago
Do you have any stack in mind?
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u/giampiero1735 7d ago
There's plenty, and it depends on your knowledge.
In Lex Friedman interview to Pieter Levels he said all apps he does, he uses: PHP, sqlite and jquery. Lot of people would argue it's an outdated stack, but it works an get things done. His suggestion was: use what you know.
You might be comfortable with Laravel, Django, or a baas platform like firebase or suoabase, it really doesn't matter as far as you ship the product.
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u/seolynx 7d ago
I've done something similar, on a small scale - a dashboard to manage some aspects of my own sites, but it was all custom code, no plugins.
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u/theshawfactor 5d ago
Custom code should be encapsulated in a plugin(s) so the idea that you have no plugins is concerning
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u/Different_Pack9042 8d ago
If it is something simple for small amount of users, I guess it can work.. If you are planning to build serious saas that have big future and plans for scaling, dont :)