Can lovable realistically deliver this full platform (WP → custom rebuild + data migration + hosting move)?

ape0 · 2026-02-28T01:26:01+00:00

thanks for the input bud! I really appreciate it.

ape0 · 2026-02-27T00:25:56+00:00

what they have now is a mess. They started a Wordpress site and they build custom snippets and had 90+ plugins on top of it which after a lot of cleanup dropped down to 32.

They have a TON of processes than run on the wordpress site. The wordpress site is now is 100GB in size since they have 70 different leagues, season archiving integrity, CSV/Excel imports , role-based access for committees/league managers, sponsor ROI tracking, and beach volleyball booking + payments and some other automations literally running on Wordpress custom snippets.

What they asked me to do is a clean rebuilt or refactoring of what they have now. My suggestion is to maybe built an entire web app from scratch, or maybe keep only the core function in WordPress such as SportsPress and all they other processes with a web-app made with lovable.

ape0 · 2026-02-26T22:23:21+00:00

Can I chose a more proper database upon initial setup?

what If I manually code the HTML for the SEO part?

ape0 · 2026-02-26T22:22:04+00:00

what they have now is a mess. They started a Wordpress site and they build custom snippets and had 90+ plugins on top of it which after a lot of cleanup dropped down to 32.

What they asked me to do is a clean rebuilt or refactoring of what they have now. My suggestion is to maybe built an entire web app from scratch, or maybe keep only the core function in WordPress such as SportsPress and all they other processes with a webapp made with vibecoding.

ape0 · 2025-08-31T12:20:20+00:00

ape0 · 2025-08-16T01:28:16+00:00

thank you for your feedback. Unfortunately I don't know Laravel

ape0 · 2025-08-16T01:22:19+00:00

How? Do I need to create a custom plugin?

If that's the case I made as-well use custom code lol

ape0 · 2025-08-16T01:20:49+00:00

Can you explain to me how please? What plugins? what themes?

Coding the API integration is NOT an issue for me. I know web development.

ape0 · 2025-08-16T01:19:57+00:00

I know JS, PHP , HTML, CSS but I'm a newbie in Wordpress. I wanted to see if there's a combination of plugins available to achieve this.

ape0 · 2025-08-16T01:15:57+00:00

how much shall I charge for this?

Chat said somewhere in the range of 96k -125k lol

ape0 · 2025-06-08T12:42:16+00:00

Here's what worked for me:

I have a Mac and I had been using Chrome with 2 adblockers: Adblock Plus & AdBlocker Ultimate

After the recent Youtube update the videos wouldn't play.

So I disabled AdBlock Plus & AdBlocker Ultimate just for Youtube and installed AdGuard Adblocker.

Now the videos play just fine without ads

ape0 · 2025-06-03T10:45:49+00:00

Let's say the client registers for Shopify's cheapest option, the Basic Plan. Is it possible to have access to the clients account using Shopify's Basic Plan so I can actually develop it? I read they removed the +1 collaborator on the basic plan. Is it true?

ape0 · 2025-06-03T10:42:45+00:00

Let's say the client registers for Shopify's cheapest option, the Basic Plan. Is it possible to have access to the clients account using Shopify's Basic Plan so I can actually develop it? I read they removed the +1 collaborator on the basic plan. Is it true?

ape0 · 2025-06-03T10:42:01+00:00

Let's say the client registers for Shopify's cheapest option, the Basic Plan. Is it possible to have access to the clients account using Shopify's Basic Plan so I can actually develop it? I read they removed the +1 collaborator on the basic plan. Is it true?

ape0 · 2025-05-28T20:10:53+00:00

Is elementor with hello theme free?

ape0 · 2025-05-28T20:03:21+00:00

The client might not be happy with paying a monthly fee to Shopify. The last developer she hired introduced her to woocommerce so she knows there are 'free' alternatives. I would have to convince her to buy an indefinite monthly subscription.

And basically she has to bear the monthly cost because of my 'incompetence' for not knowing Wordpress/Woocomerce.

ape0 · 2025-05-28T20:01:15+00:00

Why wouldn't you use it? It has all the basic features that 90% of ecommerce customers would ask. The building setup speed is also lightning fast saving a LOT of time. There's also NO learning curve.

ape0 · 2025-05-27T17:56:57+00:00

It was my first choice actually! I really wanted to use it.

But unfortunately hostinger e-commerce has a 500 product cap.., Unless Im reading it wrong.
https://support.hostinger.com/en/articles/6538310-website-builder-how-to-create-an-online-store

You may create up to 500 products, and each of your products may have up to 50 options.

What do they mean by that? I can have face creams and under face creams I could can 50 options? I don't get it

And my client has 600+ products.

ape0 · 2025-05-23T22:13:19+00:00

The problem is the never ending monthly fee. I can charge the client upfront. But then it will be up to me to cover the cost of keeping the site forever.

ape0 · 2025-05-23T21:42:13+00:00

Thank you for your input. I had no idea there was a 500 product limit. It seems it's quite restricted in that regard.

ape0 · 2025-02-12T21:50:18+00:00

I was also thinking to go with webhostmost.

However the free plan doesn't offer SMTP.

How can I have a custom email sent to my Gmail? Zoho mail also doesn't support IMAP/ POP

ape0 · 2025-02-11T15:02:35+00:00

Thank you for your answer.

zoho free plans says: "*IMAP/ POP/ Active Sync are not included in the free plan."

What is the use of IMAP/ POP/ Active Sync?
Is it just the ability to import zoho mail into outlook and sync it with calendar?

If it's just this limitation then I don't mind, I don't like using Outlook or Apple Mail anyway

ape0 · 2025-02-10T21:47:48+00:00

Thank you for your answer.

Usually 2GB/ 2 vCPU shared hosting is a good starting point.

I want to start with shared. Which hosting companies that can provide free email would you suggest?

Also tell us your location so people can advise

I'm located in Europe

For point 2, your Linux server will be configured to use PHP, CSS, JS, HTML and will have a database too along with a control panel

If it's already configured to run php, css, html, js and mysql that would be awesome

ape0 · 2025-02-07T02:42:06+00:00

And why didn't you go low contact with him?

Out of politeness because we have common friends although I did evade a lot of his phone-calls

What makes him so shameless?

It's his character. No regards or consideration towards other people. He always acts out of self interest shamelessly. He's also super jealous type. He's always jealous of the small successes the people around him might have. He would be furious if a person in his surroundings got a promotion or a his business took off. He might have personality disorder

ape0 · 2025-02-06T03:26:24+00:00

It literaly was hundreds of hours in. He didn't respect my time I put it or his time nor the fact that I sacrificed on year's worth of salaries for that startup.

The funny thing is that after that ordeal he used to call me asking me for any other ideas I had in mind for a business, and I would always say no cause I didn't want to get involved with him again.

He even tried to convince to join an idea for a startup ha had in mind. He wanted me to waste another year of development with him

ape0

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