Title: adding fields to database and edit form
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# adding fields to database and edit form

 *  [jerry1970](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jerry1970/)
 * (@jerry1970)
 * [13 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/adding-fields-to-database-and-edit-form/)
 * Hi all,
 * We’re trying to find out which CMS is the right one for us. Our site is going
   to have a database of artists, albums for artists, releases for albums, and reviews
   for releases.
 * I’ve worked with Joomla for some time now. I’ve tried Seblod which was quite 
   complex and documentation is terrible to non-existent. I am a PHP programmer 
   and didn’t get the configuration parts of this. Also, I think the Joomla DOM 
   is unnecessary complex, you need a lot of files all over the place to make something
   work.
    Then the Joomla plugin K2. Although much easier to work with for a programmer,
   it also is a star in lacking documentation.
 * Tried Drupal, but the steep learing curve (again, the DOM) does not give much
   confidence.
 * So why not WP? With a larger database I read it’s much better in performance.
   It’s just that we were told writing extensions was harder for WP than for the
   others. But now I start to realize that was a remark by people who like configuring
   existing plugins instead of PHP programming.
 * So, I guess I will have a categories Artist (fields like Name, Country, Info),
   Album (Title, SortOrder, link to Artist), Release (Label, Catalog, ReleaseDate,
   link to Album), and Review (regular article fields plus link to Release).
 * What would, in a few general steps, be the way to go? I assume categories Artist,
   Album, and Release; then create templates to edit these categories and plugins
   to store the data in separate tables?
 * Just a few keywords so I know where to look would be great. I will then know 
   what to find for and read before the next step.
 * Thanks!
    Jerry

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 *  [esmi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/esmi/)
 * (@esmi)
 * [13 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/adding-fields-to-database-and-edit-form/#post-2889022)
 * [http://justintadlock.com/archives/2010/04/29/custom-post-types-in-wordpress](http://justintadlock.com/archives/2010/04/29/custom-post-types-in-wordpress)

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