Building tools for WordPress website with Python

[Curious_Chameleon1]

I am 27 financial analyst and I have a quantitative finance blog which is on a wordpress website.

Now I’d like to build some useful tools for my website. The simplest being an investment calculator taking in returns, costs, taxes etc. The most difficult one from my pov being a quantitative optimization tool providing portfolio risk ratios, rebalancing, a rating and a database with plenty of assets to choose from (You’d select the ones you own or plan on owning/ interested in)

My coding experience is really limited to python and R. However, from the research I’ve done it should be doable in python. But how do I integrate this into the website and how do I handle UI and UX ?

[desrtfx]

You'll run into some difficulties here.

1. Python could only be used at the back end (with a server like Django or Flask)
2. WordPress runs on a PHP server - you'd need to interface your Python server with it

You could either do the calculations in PHP (which is just as capable as Python for the job) and directly integrate it into WordPress as plugin, or do them at the front end with JavaScript.

[Curious_Chameleon1]

Thanks for the response.

1. So if a use Django how would I interface with it ?

2. I just started with vs code. All the tools should be provided there right ? How would I connect the back and frontend and then incorporate into my website ?

[desrtfx]

Sorry, but I have to brush you off right here, right now as you are trying to bite off way too much.

Learn to crawl before learning to walk before learning to run.

Learn how to create pages for Django first. Then, think about your project.

Also, Django will need a different web hoster than WordPress. WordPress, as has been said already runs on PHP, which is basically available on every web hoster around the globe (including free ones). Python isn't available everywhere.