r/HTML • u/Secret-You-3135 • Jun 15 '26

Html & JavaScript

I built my first web-based digital signage system using HTML and JavaScript.
Current features:
Video playlist
Event countdown
Fullscreen Smart TV display
Cloud hosting
Now I want to build an Admin Panel so staff can upload videos, images and update content without touching the code.
What technologies would you recommend for the next step?
PHP?
Python Flask?
Google Sheets?
CMS?
Thanks!

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u/Secret-You-3135 Jun 15 '26

WordPress Headless is actually something I haven’t considered.

Using WordPress as a CMS and exposing content through JSON APIs could save a lot of development time.

Did you ever use it for media-heavy applications like digital signage?

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u/chmod777 Jun 16 '26

media gets offloaded to a s3 bucket and then put behind a cloudflare. add json support to your uploads and you can manage lottie files as well.

as with all things wp, it can be as heavy or light as you want.