Create Standalone App From WP Plugin

[Paul Kelly ICHYB]

From a development point of view, is it possible to create a free standing web app from a WP plugin i.e. a single product you upload to server?

With WP as a base, it is a great platform to develop applications, as it covers a lot of the base functions sites need, but what if I wanted to 'reverse engineer' a plugin to create a standalone product?

Or is it easier to start from scratch?

 

[fisicx]

Start from scratch.

To be standalone you can’t use any wp hooks, function or DB tables.

 

[PaulSmt]

For most cases, starting from scratch with a modern, minimal stack will be faster and give you a cleaner, more maintainable product. If you’re comfortable with WP’s internals and the plugin is simple, adapting it could work—but expect to wrestle with decoupling.