Title: Custom Fields or Post Types
Last modified: August 31, 2016

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# Custom Fields or Post Types

 *  [jenbumpkin](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jenbumpkin/)
 * (@jenbumpkin)
 * [10 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/custom-fields-or-post-types/)
 * 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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 *  [rabsaque](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rabsaque/)
 * (@rabsaque)
 * [10 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/custom-fields-or-post-types/#post-7423258)
 * Wow what you need is very custom you should search some plug in developer , a
   custom plug in is what you need.
 * btw you can create your own tables on wp database.
 * take a look on this.
 * [https://codex.wordpress.org/Writing_a_Plugin](https://codex.wordpress.org/Writing_a_Plugin)
 * [https://codex.wordpress.org/Creating_Tables_with_Plugins](https://codex.wordpress.org/Creating_Tables_with_Plugins)
 * [http://wordpress.stackexchange.com/questions/3396/create-custom-page-templates-with-plugins](http://wordpress.stackexchange.com/questions/3396/create-custom-page-templates-with-plugins)
 * Good luck you will need it.
 *  [jack randall](https://wordpress.org/support/users/theotherlebowski/)
 * (@theotherlebowski)
 * [10 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/custom-fields-or-post-types/#post-7423259)
 * there are plugins available for you to create custom post types that do most 
   of the database heavy lifting for you. types by toolset is the one i have the
   most experience using and it gives you the option of creating all the custom 
   fields you need for your artist’s bio’s in the post type.
 *  Thread Starter [jenbumpkin](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jenbumpkin/)
 * (@jenbumpkin)
 * [10 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/custom-fields-or-post-types/#post-7423279)
 * Thanks Jack. Toolset sounds like something that will work. I’ll dig into it and
   see.

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