Basic directory

  • lucassoares

    (@lucassoares)


    11 years, 7 months ago

    Hi guys,

    This is Lucas. I was wondering if you guys could give me some guidance for an upcoming project of mine. Basically it’s a blog featuring creative work and portfolios, and I want to include a directory page with the best designers/creatives that were featured on the blog. Something similar to http://visualcache.com/features/by/

    My question is what’s the best way to build something like that? Considering I want to manually add designers to the listing (because I don’t want *every* creative featured on the blog to be automatically included on the directory listing.

    I’m thinking that the “Directory” would be a custom post type?! So each post would be a designer, under a specialty (categories, so people can search by specialties) and a few custom fields (for contact info, location etc). Is my thinking correct here?

    The main question is how exactly do I link every designer to a page including blog posts on which the designer were featured? Like in the example above, when you click on a designer, it takes you to a page where you can find blog posts that they were featured. What would be the best way to accomplish this?

    I’m sorry if I’m not being clear enough, english is not my native language… I’ll try to explain better if you need to. 😉

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  • webbrewers

    (@webbrewers)

    11 years, 7 months ago

    Sounds like a job for tags to me. Make the creative examples posts, and tag them with the designer. Your directory would then be a rendition of the tags list.

    Thread Starter lucassoares

    (@lucassoares)

    11 years, 7 months ago

    Hi webbrewers, thanks for the reply!

    But how would I categorize each designer/category by specialty and location so people can filter designers on the directory page?

    webbrewers

    (@webbrewers)

    11 years, 7 months ago

    You could also use tags to fine tune the filtering by specialty/location or assign posts to categories for that. You’d have to play with it to get the best structure.

    Thread Starter lucassoares

    (@lucassoares)

    11 years, 7 months ago

    I just found a plugin to extend custom taxonomies with custom fields… I guess it’s a good option…

    I’d extend the custom taxonomy “designer” with custom field types, a category or tag field for “location” and a category or tag field for “specialty”

    I guess it would be more intuitive and easier to code?

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