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  • I am working on a project for an online radio station. I have some experience in WordPress, but I have only used it for simpler websites. My two approach choices to this project are build it from scratch (but I’ll not fully get the mobility structure of WP) or use WordPress (but I don’t know which direction to go with custom data fields).

    Aside from streaming, the main feature I need is an Artist table that is searchable. The database fields would be something like Artist, Image, Bio, and some URLS for their web and social.

    There would also be a Songs table. Some fields would be Title, Artist, Hook URL, Video URL, Album Name, etc.

    There would also be a News table. This would include about five fields.

    When an Artist record is pulled, it would show a page that contains their photo, bio, image, their social links as well as all their songs from the Songs database and items that they are tagged in from the News database.

    This can be programmed easily outside WordPress. But I really want to try to use WP to make this all work.

    Do I need to look into Advanced Custom Fields or do I need to go the Post Type route? And regardless which direction I go, how do can I get all three of these tables to work together in WordPress?

    I’m not needing someone to hold my hand (lol) just show the path on how to accomplish something like this.

    Thanks!

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