Hey man, that’s going to be a lot of work. But if you’re up for it, you should just write your own Custom Post Type (reference link) to handle getting the information. Or you could use a plugin called Advanced Custom Fields that really makes it easy to add formatted content to a page.
You think it would be easier to write everything from scratch instead of modifying your plugin?
I think it would be. Do you need the sorting feature?
I assume you are referring to the “Order” sub-menu, and I may need that. Not for sure yet. Depends on how they decide they want to display the albums. But I’m sure they will just want them going in the typical order of newest album at top and then getting older as you go down the page. I probably won’t need the template area as I’ll just hard code it in.
Yeah, well if you end up need all of the features, you could just duplicate my plugin and go through and change the post type definition, all the function names, and all the custom field names.
Not terribly easy (or fun), but do-able. haha
Thanks for the help, I have already done that but for some reason I can’t get the loop to display now using the modified code. I am doing a simple port over to just say “band members” instead of “staff members” to make sure i have modified correctly. Pretty much anything that said staff I changed to band. I must have messed up somewhere. :/ haha
Found my error. In admin-views.php and admin-install-uninstall.php I had the loop named [band_member_loop] and in user-view-show-band-member-list.php I had it as [band_loop].
Awesome. Glad you got it working!
Thanks for all the help Brett. I’ll let you know when I get done customizing it to work with the albums and layout I want. Then maybe you can take a look at the code and help me improve it if you have time. Thanks again for everything and making a great plugin.
