Frappe Website & Portals — Implementation Workflows

Step-by-step workflows for building websites, portals, and public-facing pages. For hooks syntax see frappe-impl-hooks. For Jinja templating see frappe-impl-jinja.

Version: v14/v15/v16 | Note: v15+ uses Bootstrap 5; v14 uses Bootstrap 4.

Quick Decision: Which Page Type?

WHAT do you need?
├── Static content page (About, Terms)     → Web Page DocType or www/ HTML
├── Data entry by external users           → Web Form
├── List of records visible on website     → has_web_view on DocType
├── Blog / news articles                   → Blog Post + Blog Category
├── Custom app with sidebar/toolbar        → Custom Portal Page (www/)
└── Dynamic route with parameters          → website_route_rules in hooks.py

See references/decision-tree.md for the complete decision tree.