How to automatically update content to homepage?

Question

From what I can see with a site like Pinterest, each of the containers on the main page are pulling data from containers on individual pages. But what sort of system would you use to automatically push the content from the individual page content to the main page once that individual page is created? Is there a system or software I could use tat handles this?

Additional details: I would like to create a system where i upload content (let's say a link and the link's description) to a new page on the server. I would then like to have the main page of the site (where all the traffic will be) to show the data from that new page (and all other new pages I create) automatically.

Note: When referencing Pinterest, it is NOT the grid type layout I'm wondering about or it's design. It's the integral system which could be fashioned after their model of new user created content pushed to the front page.

Answer 1

You could use a Content Management System (CMS) like WordPress to handle something like this for you. You could allow users to post from the front end using a plugin or custom coding and then have them show on the homepage using a blog feed.

WordPress is a very powerful system that can do just about anything, it's definitely worth a try.