Title: Library or database plugin
Last modified: January 15, 2017

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# Library or database plugin

 *  [David](https://wordpress.org/support/users/reeferdave/)
 * (@reeferdave)
 * [9 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/library-or-database-plugin/)
 * Good after noon everyone. I hope I am placing this in the right area, if not 
   please forgive me.
 * I am currently looking for a plug-in that will help me manage information by 
   placing it into a database and then display it in a page based on category. What
   I am trying to do is this. I run a website that needs the ability to display 
   and serve a list of different species of fish that include:
 * A picture
    Description Different water parameters Temperament Origin Etc.
 * I have been looking through the plug-ins area but can’t find what I need to accomplish
   this. Any suggestions on a plug-in that would help would be greatly appreciated.

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 *  Moderator [Steven Stern (sterndata)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sterndata/)
 * (@sterndata)
 * Volunteer Forum Moderator
 * [9 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/library-or-database-plugin/#post-8657571)
 * What you need is a custom post type. Generally, this is a programming task, but
   if you search the plugins on “custom post type”, you’ll find several that will
   h elp.
 *  Thread Starter [David](https://wordpress.org/support/users/reeferdave/)
 * (@reeferdave)
 * [9 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/library-or-database-plugin/#post-8657689)
 * Thank you very much Steve 🙂 I will check that out now.
 *  [RossMitchell](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rossmitchell/)
 * (@rossmitchell)
 * [9 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/library-or-database-plugin/#post-8660208)
 * Hello Dave,
    Suggest that you look at some of the ecommerce product catalogue
   plugins, such as woocommerce. They provide management of lots of entries, each
   with descriptive text and images, and most importantly lists of attributes. So
   if you setup your categories like: – marine, freshwater, freshwaterHard – social,
   solitary – amazon, congo, thai ….. etc Then you will be able to search and display
   items based upon combinations of attributes with readily available plugins.
 *  Thread Starter [David](https://wordpress.org/support/users/reeferdave/)
 * (@reeferdave)
 * [9 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/library-or-database-plugin/#post-8661154)
 * [@rossmitchell](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rossmitchell/) That sounds
   like a great idea. I use WooCommeerce on my wife’s site but never thought about
   using it in this fashion for mine. I am going to give it a try and see how it
   works out. 🙂
 * I did find a plugin that will allow me to categorize the pages and seems ok but
   if I can do this with WooCommerce it will definitely give me more options for
   sure.
 * Many thanks and I will let you know how it works out 🙂

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 * Last reply from: [David](https://wordpress.org/support/users/reeferdave/)
 * Last activity: [9 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/library-or-database-plugin/#post-8661154)
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