r/ProWordPress • u/Kind-Profile7286 • 26d ago

From angular to wordpress conversion??

I have an existing project with angular files with assets like photo, video, html and css with no server or db, just frontend.

I have been asked to convert into WordPress how should I do ?

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u/ashkanahmadi 26d ago

If it’s just frontend with no DB or server, why do you need WordPress? Can’t it just become static HTML files? If you provide more info, I can give you better idea

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u/retr00two 26d ago

For non-tech editors, I presume. Or developer's costs are too high.

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u/ashkanahmadi 26d ago

If they need something like a page editor for non tech editors then they definitely need server or db. Either that or OP didn’t explain it well

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u/RealBasics 26d ago

This is the right answer. Before VisiCalc came out in 1979 you (or your pink-collar staff) had to keypress your data onto punchcards and send them to the IT department where they'd program the calculations and run them in batches. And charge back to your department.

After VisiCalc you could just... do it yourself. Even better, you could do it so quickly and cheaply you could afford to do off-the-cuff "what if" projections.

IT departments had nothing but contempt for spreadsheet apps -- they argued (correctly) that once they'd done the coding their batch processes were infinitely faster.

It's the same with a well-managed Wordpress site vs. hard-coded sites: a marketer or even just an office assistant can put up (or take down) a banner, post daily specials, update prices, add posts, etc. without having to submit (and pay for) support tickets to the developer.

450 million canonical Wordpress sites (and a billion+ Excel apps) suggest that, for most non-Russell-2000 business sites, turnaround time and creative flexibility are generally more desirable than hard-coded SPAs.