I'm very interested in the first version you wrote.

It just seems like a good example of an MVP. You got the site up in Wordpress fairly quickly, modified it using PHP to your liking (did you have to in order to implement features), and then some python to actually do some work on the back end?

Very unclear, but I think that would be of interest to this audience.

edit: Apparently the rest of his blog is dedicated to this info so in case you are reading this, are as curious as I was, and didn't think to click around:

https://medium.com/@reillychase