Very in Love with this site - but have lots of QUESTIONS

[K.Forte]

Thanks Pear

[p810]

You're starting out in the right direction by building out your frontend and filling in the functionality. One thing that's very important to remember is that you should not mix the two. What I mean by this is that the code you've written for the frontend should function independently of the code you're going to implement for the backend -- code that talks to the database, for example.

If this is confusing then let's consider how WordPress handles templating. You have templates for different sections of the site, like home.php for the index and page.php for individual post pages. You'll never see a declaration in a template file. A declaration is a variable or a function. You'll see functions being called in certain places, like to get the latest posts, but they're declared separately. This is known as separation of concerns and it's easily one of, if not the most important tenant of SOLID as it applies to PHP.

My personal opinion is that WordPress is not well suited for this type of site, mainly because of its user system and access control, but also because it's a blogging platform that's been duct taped together to be a CMS, so you'll have to do some weird things to get it to be an adoptable site.

But that doesn't mean you can't use Mysidia or a custom framework for your game alongside WordPress (as a blog or general site). Of course that includes bbPress for the forum.

[K.Forte]

@P810 , thank you so much for your advice. I'm well aware that what I'm heading into is a complete mess

The more I look into it and try to sort it out, the more I'm realizing how difficult and tangled the WP code is to work with. I'm doing it just for fun, but I can't help being completely frustrated with the simplest stuff (such as the BB forums) which keep loading random stuff whenever they feel like. And this is simply due to conflicting slugs, tags, and redirects. I'm doing more troubleshooting than content writing and creation at this point by about 80 or 90 percent and it's driving me quite a bit bonkers.

I'm going to start playing with the adoptables code only once I'm comfortable with the way wordpress runs on its own for now.

I guess I opened this can of worms... and not I gotta lie in it.