WordPress was primarily intended for creating blogs. It is also suitable for creating common presentation pages or microsites. With the use of the WooCommerce plugin, the creation of e-shops is also widely used.
During the many years we have been working with WordPress, we have also adapted WordPress to various other less standard projects. In this article, we would like to show you examples of what else WordPress can be used for.
The article was revised and updated in May 2026.
A web application in vue.js connected to the WordPress API
WordPress has a pretty good API. You can work with all the content that is in the WordPress administration and access it through this interface from other applications. An example can be a React, Angular or vue.js application - a frontend that pulls data through the API.
So we use WordPress only as a backend, and we display everything that the website visitor sees in the reactive web frontend of the application. The advantage of such an architecture is that you can create a backend relatively quickly. You can administer all content in the already familiar administration. If you need any other entities, in addition to articles and pages, you can create others using custom posts. You can expand the database with additional custom fields using the ACF plugin. We also used ACF to configure the application. In other words, you can very quickly click on the database and structure of the desired web application, essentially without programming.
If you also need products in your application, the WooCommerce plugin also has an API created in the same way.
You can find a sample of how the vue component can work on top of WordPress, for example, on the plustelka.sk website
WordPress as a backend for mobile apps
As in the example above, you can also pull data from WP to mobile applications via the WP API. We made mobile applications for a conference, for example, and used the WP API to change or update the content in the applications. We changed the content on the website and we also got the current content into the mobile applications. The advantage is that you can administer the content in one place, but it gets everywhere.
Online magazine or media
This is a very common usage. Basically, the common functionality of WP is used, such as categories, users, articles, comments and static pages. As with any WordPress project, we recommend using as few plugins as possible.
But sometimes it grows into a larger internet medium. In Slovakia, we have a good example dennikn.sk. For this project, not much of the WordPress gut was left. It is mainly used for content administration and the frontend is custom PHP code and also a lot of cache.
Examples:
Web site network
We are currently making a website for the Red Cross, and this organization is made up of associations. Each association has, as it were, its own website in its administration on a subdomain. At the same time, they should have a uniform design and common content on the main page. The solution for such a project is multisite.
Website with members section
On several projects, we made a member's section or a client zone. We used users and individual roles. After logging in to the given role, you can view certain content that is hidden from the world. These can be downloads, video tutorials, static pages and articles.
We have a good example in Slovakia fitshaker.sk. This site also has a paid members section where you can find various video exercises and other materials.
Price configurator in WordPress
We did several such projects. Mostly, we got the key values and coefficients to the administration via ACF, and we did the logic on the frontend via javascript. jQuery in the past and now we're fiddling with vue.js. Of course, everything can be done in PHP.
Example:
Catalog of products in WordPress
In this case, we mostly use custom posts in connection with ACF. Or the WooCommerce plugin and products that cannot be ordered. If you have over 10,000 products, I would definitely recommend going the route of custom posts.
Diexperienced WordPress forum
One of my first jobs after school was to style a theme-based forum for Sygic https://bbpress.org/. The funny thing was that when I made the invoice, I also put VAT there, although of course I was not the payer of it.
Real estate portal in WordPress
We made a portal for a real estate company in Žilina. You can create real estate through custom posts. Through ACF, you will make the necessary parameters for the property. You might struggle a bit with the filter and search, but it's manageable.
Advertising portal in WordPress
About 8 years ago, we made a small advertising portal. There are plenty of paid themes that will give you most of the functionality you need. It can be fine as a project start and to verify interest, but personally I would not build a larger web application on WordPress. If the project takes off, which of course we all hope, the requirements for business logic will also start to increase. However, this is most happily not done in WP. Loading speed is also important for such portals. With a large number of ads, it can become slow. Of course, it can be solved at the system level and hosting, but in that case you can expect increased costs.
Conference page
Internal company communication tool
Look topic P2 from Automatic, which is perfect for this. You install, ideally somewhere online, WordPress and just install the P2 theme. The advantage is that you don't have to use paid tools such as Slack and you have all the data you write within your group with you. You can search, you can upload images and documents. The power of WordPress is used as comments, markup, editor.
Company Wiki
After logging in, users see structured content with your company's knowledge base. A simple solution that is always online. You can deploy it, for example, on a subdomain of your regular company presentation page. It's still online, it's basically a living documentary. You can also add various documents. When onboarding new employees, you just create a new account within the WordPress administration.
And what about you?
Write us about your experience too. We look forward to your feedback. If you have used WordPress in any other way, write to us in the comments on social networks and we will add to this list.
