Help regarding directory requirements

  • Resolved narkhedesarang

    (@narkhedesarang)


    4 years, 7 months ago

    Hello,
    We are a nonprofit and are new to WordPress. We are trying to figure out how best to create a simple data-driven site we need, and we would appreciate your help in understanding whether the Advanced Classifieds & Directory Pro Plugin would meet our needs.

    Background:
    All we need is a simple site with one directory type of page. It should look exactly like this https://changingthepresent.org/collections/george-washington-high-school-10002

    There are 140k schools, each of which will have a page like that. We need each school page to have its own URL so schools can link directly to their page.

    We do not need a way to search for the schools, as that will happen on a separate site.

    Each of the “products” will be a student or a donation opportunity. Those pages will not be on the WP site. ALL the links on the school pages will go to a separate site. Student “products” have two links (profile and wish list, each on a separate site).

    We may have as many as 2k “products” in some schools, and a total of 5M – 10M products. Of course, we need pagination and caching.

    We do need the filtering by tag as you see on the left WITHIN a school (not site-wide), and we vastly prefer compound tags like that so we can group them.

    Search within a school would be nice but not essential, so long as we can filter on the left and show alphabetized results.

    The two forms at the bottom are just iframe embeds.

    Questions:

    • Can we do the above-mentioned with Advanced Classifieds & Directory Pro Plugin?
    • Do you let us add what I think is called Custom Post Types to accommodate the specific fields we need?
    • Do you recommend a specific theme? Again, we want it to look exactly like the page at that URL I cited.
    • How does it integrate with the MySQL database?
    • Do you provide tools to manage the connection to that database?
    • We want to be able to add new products on the fly as we add them. Can we do that with Google Sheets, Zapier, Integromat, or something?
    • Do you recommend a specific hosting company for this? 5 to 10M records and 500k to 2M visits per month?

    Please contact us at rtolmach@changingthepresent.org for more information.
    Any help or suggestions will be highly appreciated!!
    Thank you very much!`

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  • Plugin Author pluginsware

    (@pluginsware)

    4 years, 7 months ago

    Hi

    Can we do the above-mentioned with Advanced Classifieds & Directory Pro Plugin?
    – It seems that you are looking to list the Schools using our plugin. If so, yes. it is possible with Advanced Classifieds and Directory Pro. You can download and install our free version and check it out.

    Do you let us add what I think is called Custom Post Types to accommodate the specific fields we need?
    – Are you speaking about the custom fields? If yes, please refer https://pluginsware.com/documentation/custom-fields/

    Do you recommend a specific theme? Again, we want it to look exactly like the page at that URL I cited.
    – Actually, we developed our plugin with WordPress standards and it should work in all themes that developed with WordPress standards.

    How does it integrate with the MySQL database?
    Do you provide tools to manage the connection to that database?
    – Actually, when you install WordPress, you need to connect with MYSQL. So it is not required to connect it again when we use our plugin.

    We want to be able to add new products on the fly as we add them. Can we do that with Google Sheets, Zapier, Integromat, or something?
    – Here we assume that the products are nothing but your schools. If yes, sure you can add your schools from your admin and also from the site frontend. But it is not possible to do this by Google Sheets, Zapier, Integromat, or something.

    Do you recommend a specific hosting company for this? 5 to 10M records and 500k to 2M visits per month?
    – Actually, we are not familiar with that. Please surf and find teh best hosting for WordPress based on your need.

    Thanks

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