What's your web platform of choice?

[bendurso]

Wordpress here too :) And I'm using VPS, which is faster than shared hosting (I've used DigitalOcean and Vultr, both are great).

[Casmat]

@d-healey ahh, that’s good! I may have to dabble a bit more into plugin making now, I’ve got a bit more php knowledge now than when I first tried!

[Casmat]

@d-healey @bendurso for my past Wordpress hosting, I use Oracle cloud since they give a great free tier!

[Casmat]

@Lindon yup, that’s what i had thought in terms of compromises, I guess you can’t get anything perfect without spending lots of time on a custom site haha

[orange]

@Casmat Here is the detailed info that I shared before.

WEB DESIGN

@DanH Wordpress + WooCommerce combination will be great and classic. Shopify is more like "in-the-box" all in one solution when it is compared to WP. Not qui...

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[bendurso]

@Casmat Also ChatGPT is really good with PHP and Javascript, I've done good stuff with it (and learned a lot)

[d.healey]

@bendurso said in What's your web platform of choice?:

Also ChatGPT is really good with PHP and Javascript, I've done good stuff with it (and learned a lot)

There is a risk with ChatGPT that you learn bad coding, because unless you know the difference you will assume that if it works it's good code.

If you already know what you're doing and you're using ChatGPT to shortcut work you could do that's one thing, but relying on it to produce code you don't understand is not always a wise idea.

I use ChatGPT all the time to write little snippets, and I almost always have to correct/improve them.

[Casmat]

@bendurso @d-healey yeah I haven’t had the best experience with ChatGPT, and it rarely has worked for me, unless its a question on syntax or a small part of code

[Casmat]

Another question I guess, how have you guys done designing on Wordpress, it’s of course a bit clunky, do you use things like elementor/Divi to design or what?

[d.healey]

@Casmat I like to be as minimal as possible. I use the Storefront theme and Gutenberg.

However I'm experimenting more with blocks and playing with FrostWP. I also added the responsive blocks plugin just yesterday because it has some stuff I'm not able to do with vanilla gutenberg.

You should also add the code snippets plugin, it has a ton of uses and makes customising things with code very easy.

[resonant]

@orange said in What's your web platform of choice?:

@Casmat Here is the detailed info that I shared before.

WEB DESIGN

@DanH Wordpress + WooCommerce combination will be great and classic. Shopify is more like "in-the-box" all in one solution when it is compared to WP. Not qui...

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That's really helpful Thanks!

[Casmat]

@d-healey ooh I’ll take a look at that!

[oskarsh]

@Casmat I am using Wordpress with WooCommerce for my main shop. However I am currently switching to using Nextjs and relying on Gumroad for my backend.

I think using Webflow + Gumroad is also a good choice.

I dislike the idea of having a php blog engine that is patched to run a Webshop as it comes with a lot of complexity and overhead. I like to follow the UNIX philosophy: Do one thing, and do it well.

[Casmat]

@oskarsh Whaaaatt!? sinuslabs.io looks AMAZING! Definitely one of the best wordpress/woocommerce sites I've ever seen. I would've never thought it'd be WP other than the checkout and login pages haha. I haven't heard much about oxygen, but it seems to be doing wonders!

[oskarsh]

@Casmat Thanks :)

If you are going to check out Oxygen take a look at this: https://bricksbuilder.io/ which is supposed to be a much improved Oxygen 2 basically.

[Casmat]

@oskarsh ooh! That's sick! Thanks a lot!!

[Dan Korneff]

We currently use oxygen and are moving to bricks.

[Casmat]

@Dan-Korneff Huh, is the footer wrong? It says astra for some reason, can oxygen be used with Astra?

[Matt_SF]

@Casmat There might be better hassle-free solutions when it comes to sell a few products, like Sellfy.
If I had to start over again I might choose one of these over wordpress, because it's time consuming, but in the end I learned a lot about webdesign/HTML/CSS/PHP. I switched to Bricks builder earlier this year and I loved redesigning my website.

If you're looking for a builder I strongly recommend this one.

@oskarsh I briefly tried oxygen too but I liked Bricks' workflow better

[oskarsh]

@Matt_SF After creating Oxygen the main Developer moved on to create Bricks Builder so its basically the updated version.

Usually the best tool is the one you stick with and learn, its all just html and css in the end.