u/awarnock-ACCS

I recently took over managing a multisite and a few other sites that have page builders. I'm looking to rationalize the plugins used across these sites and to split up the multi-site network to make management more straight-forward, and I was wondering if there were any compelling reasons to use a multisite network or page builders?

Just to be clear, I've never liked working with page builders, and actually prefer Gutenberg to the ones I've used for WordPress, like Elementor, Avada, and WP Bakery. If there is a compelling reason to use them, then what would be the one y'all would recommend? Preferably, it'd be one that has really good accessibility on the front end out of the box.

As for multisite networks, I know there are reasons to use them. An old employer of mine switched to them to help with security standardization across the whole organization's websites, but this is a bit different from what's going on here, at least from my understanding, where we have different websites/webpages for different campaigns and programs with differing requirements. In my mind, it doesn't make sense to use a multisite network for that.

I guess what I'm really looking for is some guidance from those that are smarter and more experienced than I about these things.

I'm redoing a website and one of the things I'd like to do is have WordPress automatically add a calendar entry each time the people the site is for set up a class registration form in TargetX, or whatever it's called in Salesforce now. The work flow I'm imagining is something like this.

1. Users set up registration for a class in Salesforce.
2. WordPress runs a timed job that checks for new class registrations in Salesforce.
3. WordPress pulls in information from the class registration form and creates a new calendar entry that has the class information and a link to the registration form.

I was wondering if there was already something out there that could do this or something that has a piece of the puzzle. I know there are plugins that integrate Salesforce with WordPress, but those seemed more focused on lead generation and not exactly what I am looking for.

An alternative workflow that might be better, now that I think about it is to set up the class registration in WordPress and then have that set up things in SalesForce, but again, I'm not sure if there's something out there that already does that.

I'm also willing to entertain that this is a stupid idea and that I should just have them email me when they set something up and put it in myself.

On a related note, is there calendar plugin that would allow me to set up a field that pulls in a custom post type? I was planning on setting up a locations custom post type that would have the building address, instructions for access, and a map that shows the building and parking locations. If that's something that I would have to develop myself, that's fine, I just thought it'd be good to ask first.