Custom Page save function

  • planbjz

    (@planbjz)


    4 years, 7 months ago

    Hello!

    I created a custom page that displays real estate listings.

    They open in another custom page that displays details about a single listing.

    I want users to be able to save their favorite listings but each listing opens up in a dynamically created page called property. This page always has the same page or post id. Plugins designed for saving your favorite pages all seem to base the information on the post id and not the actual page url.

    Is there a way to allow users to save pages to a favorite list based on just the page url? Sort of like a wishlist in woocommerce.

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  • Moderator bcworkz

    (@bcworkz)

    4 years, 7 months ago

    Each property has a unique “id=” query var in the URL, right? All that really needs to be saved is this ID. The URL itself never changes, so the ID can be added to the normal URL. The “&wpf28382_5=” query var doesn’t seem to be necessary.

    Whether the entire URL or just the ID, it can be saved somehow. If users are required to be logged in, selected IDs could be saved in their user meta data. If not, favorites would need to be saved as cookie data. Of course users could simply bookmark their favorites in their browser, but having a mechanism within your site is still preferable.

    It sounds like you’ve already searched for plugins without much success. Saving an URL query var to somewhere via custom code isn’t all that complicated, but if you’re not a coder it’s still beyond reach. You could hire a coder to help you with this. Qualified coders can be found through jobs.wordpress.net

    Thread Starter planbjz

    (@planbjz)

    4 years, 5 months ago

    Hey @bcworkz,

    Thanks for the advice. I’m just now getting back to this part of the project.

    I’ll look into saving the URL to the user meta data.

    PlanB

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