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  • Hi!

    I’m hoping some of you experts can help me figure out the best way to attack what seems like such a simple problem. I need to have two lists of items that the user can add to, delete and update that will show up on the home page of the site. Both lists will be variable in length. They will live on a static home page if that matters. The first list contains items that need to have two fields and the second list contains items that need to have three fields. I’ve read and read and read stuff, and the more I read, the more confused I’m getting on how best to do this. Custom post types? Taxonomies? Custom Fields? Some combination of those? If I was building this from scratch, this would be such a simple thing, but I can’t figure out the best way to do this with WordPress? Can anyone give me some guidance?

    Thanks!!!
    Holli

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  • Alwyn Botha

    (@123milliseconds)

    What about something more advanced like

    search google on

    editable tables

    – Use such a dedicated solution for this.

    Thread Starter Holli Graham

    (@clickfirecoder)

    Thanks for the response 123milliseconds! Is that something specific to WordPress? I googled it and didn’t come up with anything about WordPress? Not sure what they are, but I have to output these fields in styled bullet lists and paragraphs, not tables. I just need something I can loop through to display and be easy for them to input in WordPress. Thanks!

    Alwyn Botha

    (@123milliseconds)

    >>>Custom post types? Taxonomies? Custom Fields? Some combination of those?

    >>will show up on the home page of the site.

    >> just need something I can loop through to display and be easy for them to input in WordPress.

    I think a custom php coding which reads your table of list items will be easiest;

    http://www.dreamincode.net/forums/topic/42346-how-to-create-drop-down-list-in-php/

    The php can generate and style the html for the lists.

    – you will not have many posts using this
    – custome fields: every post will have one set of fields – it will not loop

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