Plugin Contributor
Barry
(@barryhughes-1)
Hi — great question!
The idea is indeed that admin-level users can use the tools and filters that APM provides.
However, we say it is for developers because, running ‘out of the box’, it won’t do anything by itself. For example, if you have a custom post type called “Books” that you use to organize a record of books, then installing APM won’t automatically result in filters appearing in relation to that post type.
Instead, you or a developer would need to write an integration layer (some ‘glue code’) that helps APM to understand your post type and tells it which filters to expose to your admin-level users. Typically, this is the sort of work a developer would do.
Some plugins (including one of our own — Events Calendar PRO) ship with such ‘glue code’ already in place. In general, though, it needs to be created per plugin/per post type.
Does that make more sense? Do let me know if I can clarify anything else about this 🙂
Thread Starter
arsm
(@arsenalemusica)
Thank you for clarifying it. I was hoping that it didn’t need to write code (its beyond my skills). Pity, because I’m searching for a plugin to filter anything of my choice, whereas I can only find plugins that filters either one or another (e.g. taxonomies, or tags, or categories, etc.). I’m also using another plugin for columns, and APM sounded like a good substitute for all of them. Too bad. 🙂
Plugin Contributor
Barry
(@barryhughes-1)
That’s unfortunate … APM is a pretty powerful tool but it does need to be ‘wired up’ and we realize that’s not for everyone.
Good luck with the search 🙂
