Custom Post types assistance

  • craigcmurray

    (@craigcmurray)


    10 years, 10 months ago

    I am working on a plugin using Custom Post types. These custom post types will be events. people will be registered (not from front end right now) for an event by an administrator and assigned to a specific age group for that event. I have the custom post type created and have added all the custom fields i need. I have the list and detail pages working. The next step is to show all people registered for the event organized by age groups. Would it be best to create users in wordpress (as ultimately at a later date i will have them login and register themselves).? How would i add on the admin side the ability to assign a user to a an age group within an event? how would i show the list of users assigned to each age group on the front end?

    thank you in advance for your assistance.

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  • RossMitchell

    (@rossmitchell)

    10 years, 10 months ago

    Would it be best to create users in wordpress (as ultimately at a later date i will have them login and register themselves).?

    Yes, there is a plugin that will create users from a CSV file, I generate these from a spreadsheet. Maybe you will add some custom fields to the users table, or have your own table keyed on WordPress ID. You will have a much easier expansion to your mature user login and registration if you start in that direction now.

    How would i add on the admin side the ability to assign a user to a an age group within an event?

    Use the Role or WordPress capabilities attribute to control access to this. Either in a custom page template OR inside the shortcode invoked function that does the admin stuff, test for the user role or capability and exit with an error message if they shouldn’t be there.
    Your regular attendee will be a subscriber, make your age group assigners contributors.

    how would i show the list of users assigned to each age group on the front end?

    Use shortcodes in the text of a page and have the shortcode invoke code in your plugin that does a select on the database and displays the results in a table.

    If you are not already familiar with shortcodes then get familiar with this:
    http://codex.wordpress.org/Shortcode_API
    Also appreciate that by default shortcodes are not active in widgets, details and a fix here:
    Enable shortcodes in widgets, from: https://digwp.com/2010/03/shortcodes-in-widgets/

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