What do you use for website? wordpress or whmcs

[sahostking]

Hi guys

 

We use client area with whmcs currently and we want to redesign our website.

 

What are your thoughts - should we have the whole site whmcs or should we have wordpress main site and client area whmcs?

[twhiting9275]

This is really going to be a personal preference more than anything. For some, wordpress will work. For others, WHMCS. For others still, just flat out php.

 

Myself? I started one project in WP, and it's still using that.

Yet another project, I'm working on with laravel, and it'll stick with laravel. Much easier to update, and it just looks better than WP

[Kian]

It depends on your perspective.

 

On a short term basis, using an external software integrated with WHMCS is quick, cheaper and requires less skills. On the other hand you are overcomplicating the entire system therefore on a long term basis probably you will regret it. Let me make an example: WHMCS (clientarea) + Wordpress (home page) + Magento (e-commerce). One day you want to change the style of your website, link a new page or add a new feature. Good luck You have 3 different logins, database, admin interfaces, template system, structure, languages etc. Not to mention that you need to keep up to date and maintain 3 different systems which triples your security risks and the number of problems. Personally I find this approach sloppy, tedious, frustrating, expensive and a waste of time on a long term basis. It gives me negative feelings because objectively it slows my daily job and increases the load on my servers.

 

Of course if you want to achieve the same results just using WHMCS, you need to invest more time but on a long term basis you'll definitely love it. You can apply changes, even drastic ones, quickly and adapt to changes almost immediately. You have one database, login, admin interface, template system, language and only one system to keep up to date and secured.

 

Now back to your question, I suppose that you only need a sort of spectacular home page. This is a super-easy task that can be achieved without using Wordpress or any other CMS. Build your spectacular website on your favorite HTML editor or on Paint or buy a ready-made template (it can be also a Drupal template, it's not important) then convert it into a WHMCS template. It's not difficult. It simply requires a bit more time compared to the installation of Wordpress with a theme.

 

Of course this is my opinion and my personal taste. Using Wordpress or any other CMS with WHMCS is not even in my options list. For me there are just integrations with API or custom-made solutions. I hate bridges.

Edited October 3, 2016 by Kian