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@parag0 for small cookie-cutter sites it can be functional. For full integration to multiple APIs, multi user registration with customizable user profile pages you are better off with a dedicated solution.
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I thought one of the main reasons for using WordPress is to empower clients to make their own changes, even to the likes of forms and stuff. But I've enough experience to know that some clients shouldn't be allowed to touch the admin area and some interfaces just need custom code. Sounds like a messy one.
hope this isnt a repeat. have a great weekend guys!!!!!
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Finally looked at the client who overbuilt his WordPress site that I'd gladly build him a new dedicated custom site for $150k and 12 months.
Even if he says he'll take the offer I have no intention of helping this person. Every time I say edits will be done in two days, he spends the next two days sending me emails with more edits to do on top. Today alone I received 78 emails from the client, 46 from the PM which were forwards of other edits. The entire project was handled wrong from the start and no one has the balls to tell him he needs a better solution than WordPress or what our agency can provide. We have a few hundred clients, he's lucky to get one week turn around time on anything more than copy changes. He wants form functionality changes weekly because he's always got a new idea, the current form has over 30 fields for users to fill out, all required, and he's always asking for more.
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