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[resolved] How to display selected database content in different lists? (3 posts)

  1. andre77
    Member
    Posted 11 months ago #

    The site will contain information about courses and festivals - and a list of the teachers/workshop leaders (containing information/picture) will be needed in the information for each of these events.

    As it is very common that the same teachers/workshop leaders will be continuously involved in these different events - it would save alot of administration if it was possible to for example give these people their own table in the wordpress database, where each item could also be assigned metakeys which corresponds to specific events.

    And then on the page where these teachers/workshop leaders should be displayed, the administrator only needs to write some short code to collect these items from the database - instead of having to write or paste/copy this information for each new event.

    Now, I do not have any experience with working directly with databases. And I am hoping there is some easy way to achieve this with plugins, some php code, or through the wordpress GUI. How would I go about this the easiest way?

    I guess there could be some "e-shop" plugins that I could use for this purpose? - but the ones I checked out, it looked like it was a bit over the edge, as they contain so much more than I am asking for.

  2. vtxyzzy
    Member
    Posted 11 months ago #

    I wouldn't say it is really easy (in fact quite a learning curve), but the Pods CSM Framework plugin will let you create a custom table in the database without knowing any (or much) code.

    Pods provides functions for retrieving the data, but it is up to you to code the template or shortcode functions to call the Pods functions and format the data.

  3. andre77
    Member
    Posted 11 months ago #

    Thanks for your reply! Indeed Pods CSM seems to provide everything I was hoping for ,-) It will take me a while to look into it, as it had so many possibilities!

    Regards,

    André

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