Is it possible to run a Python app on a WordPress site?
I suggest you develop a REST API in Python and extend your Wordpress site to consume that API.
For the Python side, you could go with Flask and use Flask-RESTful.
For the Wordpress side, have a look at this question.
Sure, if you meet a couple of conditions:
- The server your wordpress site is on also has python
- And you have the ability run arbitrary python scripts on said server.
Here's a (very contrived) example of how to do it from a plugin:
call-python.php (plugin file):
<php/*Plugin name: Call PythonAuthor:......*/$pyScript = "/path/to/app.py";exec("/usr/bin/python $pyScript", $output);var_dump($output);And the python script app.py:
print("Hello, World")And that's it! That will dump Hello, world to the body. Obviously you'll need a bit more for a more complicated python app, but it will work.
Like others are saying, there may be better "more correct" ways of doing it. But if your end goal is to run a python app from WordPress it's possible.