stevebot
Member
Posted 7 months ago #
Hi folks,
I'm wanting to build a business directory, where businesses can obviously log-in & add their own listings. I'm also looking for customers to log-in and 'subscribe' or 'join' chosen businesses.
The business owner can then send promotions etc to only the folks who have subscribed to their business.
I'm fairly new to WP, and i'm hoping that someone can give me some pointers on whether I could easily do this, and if so the necessary plugins. I'm a bit lost with the amount out there...
Many thanks,
Steve
Erin B.
Member
Posted 7 months ago #
Hi,
Sounds like a job for custom post types, which allows you to create a custom post entry template. That way you can present users with a structured form that only contains the fields relevant to a business directory (like address, contact info, hours of operation, etc).
Check out Custom Post Type UI:
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/custom-post-type-ui/
This will give you a very easy interface for generating the code you need. It creates both custom post types and custom taxonomies (that work like tags/categories).
Or you can do so directly by consulting the Codex entries at:
http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/register_post_type
http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/register_taxonomy
There are some good resources listed on that page, a Google-ing will also yield some very good tutorials.
-Erin
stevebot
Member
Posted 7 months ago #
Thank you for your help! It lloks like i've got a busy time ahead of me!
