Creating a Searchable Reviews Database

  • jharris68

    (@jharris68)


    16 years, 9 months ago

    I’m new to WordPress and have a question regarding making a searchable database. I ran a previous music website which over the years posted hundreds of reviews and articles. What I’d like to do it put all these in a database and have users be able to access these via a drop down menu that pulls the reviews/articles directly from the database. So basically someone clicks on the drop down menu and sees a list of all the reviews/articles by name and can select the one they want to view. This then would pull up the review while hopefully still using my WordPress theme. Ideally I’d like two drop down menus – one for articles and one for reviews. Also it would be nice if it could show the album cover image when a review is selected. How difficult would this be to do and has anyone written anything like this?

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  • moshu

    (@moshu)

    16 years, 9 months ago

    So how is that old database thing related to WP? I just miss to see why is this question posted in a WP forum…

    Thread Starter jharris68

    (@jharris68)

    16 years, 9 months ago

    The old reviews were not in a database – just static reviews on a web page. Now that I’m using WordPress I want to find a way to make these available via my blog. Since WordPress is database driven I though there may be a way to display these from a database. Maybe I should have posted this in the “Advanced” section?

    wyomingpbs

    (@wyomingpbs)

    16 years ago

    Has anyone come up with an extension that covers this topic? My wife is in the same situation, she has a folder full of book and movie reviews, and she would like to post them to her WP blog with alphabetical order listings or search by title, etc.

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