• Hello

    I am using since several years drupal and am considering now to switch to wordpress, because wordpress has several new features compare to a few years ago.
    I have several websites, some are blogs or news sites, some are more complex. My question is about the more complex ones.
    Example:
    I have a site for sport courses. Companies can register and offer their courses there. I have custom content types (post types?) with custom fields, e.g. for company:
    – name
    – address
    – description
    – website
    – selection from a list of tags
    e.g for courses
    – name
    – description
    – type of course
    – location
    – date
    – link to company this course belongs

    On the website it is possible to browse by state or city and get a list of all offered courses. Or to filter by a specific type. Or to search.
    When the user clicks on a company, he sees after the company information a list of courses this company offers.
    Also I want to create custom views.

    As you see I need
    – custom content/post types
    – possibility to establish relations between them
    – custom views

    I was searching the forum and the internet. As I understand, this is in principle possible. What I don’t understand, whether this is easy possible with a plugin/widget and no coding required. Because I don’t want to code. For example I found the plugin subposts (www.subposts.com), but I did not find it on wordpress.org with its thousands of plugins/widets.
    I am overwhelmed by the amount of plugins/widget, but I am not able to tell whether it fits my needs really.

    My requirement would be to have a plugin/widget, which is stable, according wordpress guidelines (no hacks) and used already quite often.

    Any feedback and help appreciated,

    thanks

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  • Best of my knowledge and experience, everything we can do with core PHP is also be possible with WordPress. But I am not sure, you woudl get an exact plugin to meet all of your requirements. There are a lot of plugins and themes support your requirement, but no one can say it will meet your complete requirements without touching a line of code. Do search on internet and contact plugin/theme support team. I hope they can give your a clear idea about this.

    Thread Starter newwpuser2

    (@newwpuser2)

    thanks for your feedback.
    I am hoping that somebody has done a similar site and therefore can share his/her experience.

    Not to be rude, but to get that sort of functionality out of your site you are going to need to code something. Weather that is hiring someone or learning it yourself, I can almost assure you, you will not find themes+plugins that add up to all that functionality, while allowing you to get away with no coding.

    Thread Starter newwpuser2

    (@newwpuser2)

    Thanks for the info, this is what I was wondering. In drupal I don’t have to code, it is quite easy to do. Considering that there is also no other feedback, I guess I will stay with drupal with these more complex sites.

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