I love Kohana code, I don’t love WordPress code. I need to upgrade a blog to have a custom theme, very custom with Grid style blog roll (like Pinterest) and Traditional Blog Roll, and fully responsive for all devices.
I was thinking of keeping the Back end on WordPress as it currently is (maybe on a different subdomain), and then writing a custom Kohana front end, which queries the WP database and makes up the pages. All blogging happens on WP, all pages that readers see are run as a Kohana site. No user sign up required, there is only one user (the blogger)
Am I crazy? Has anyone tried this? Is there anything to watch out for?
(Yes, what I need to do probably could be done by an experienced WP developer, but I’m not him, and I’m gonna have to maintain this for years to come).
Kohana is a front-end framework, WordPress is a blogging platform, they donât play well together. You could write a website with Kohana than uses WordPress functions to query the WordPress database, but thatâs just stupid and will lead to overhead, spaghetti code, and a pain in the ass at a later date when you realise what a stupid set-up it is.
WordPressâs front-end is perfectly capable at doing what you want to do. I donât see why you would want to use an entirely different frameworkâitâs not going to give you an benefits.