Theme advice for author's website "books" page

  • jpoc

    (@jpoc)


    10 years, 5 months ago

    Hello,

    I’m trying to create a website for a published author but have struggled to find a neat way to display books in many existing themes.

    I saw this site today and noticed it is a custom WordPress theme. How would you go about creating a custom template or child-theme to match the books page for this site? Any quick method?

    Should I make each book a “post” and then pull them into a css styled list? My css and php knowledge is limited.

    I know it isn’t the most advanced theme ever and it isn’t even responsive, but I think it would suit my requirements. Any alternative ideas for this project are welcome too.

    Thanks in advance.

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  • Balint Toth

    (@tothbalint)

    10 years, 5 months ago

    Hello!

    Your thinking is good, you would have to choose a theme that you like, and create a child theme for that, and make there the necessary css settings. The tricky part is the book content itself. You should create a custom post type for books, which can incorporate the necessary custom data types which are related to a book, and you will have to create a specific php file that lists those kind of post types. I am sorry to tell you that as far as I know, there is no quick method. You have plugins that can create the necessary post types for books, so the saving the data in WordPress is solved, but for displaying the books, you will need php coding.

    I am here to help you.

    Greetings,
    Balint

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