Title: Native or Plugin?
Last modified: November 7, 2016

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# Native or Plugin?

 *  Resolved [mykolas99](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mykolas99/)
 * (@mykolas99)
 * [9 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/native-or-plugin/)
 * So my site is for a sporting organisation. All is good, however I now want to
   include a database of the grounds that are used within the organisation, with
   various data fields (name, address, ground type, home team, access, parking, 
   any weird bits of pertinent info, google maps link/embeded map, photos etc). 
   All up your probably looking at 100 records.
 * Ideally these would all have their own ‘pages’ and allow users to comment on 
   each individual ground with an index…
 * What im wondering, is off the top of your heads, do you think I would be better
   off using a plugin, or trying to do it within WordPress itself? If plugin any
   recommendations?
 * Thankyou in advance 🙂

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 *  [LumberHack](https://wordpress.org/support/users/lumberhack/)
 * (@lumberhack)
 * [9 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/native-or-plugin/#post-8405376)
 * I’d reccomend you use pods or some other framework/plugin that allows custom 
   post types. Create a post type called `Grounds` ( Don’t use pages ) add the various
   fields you mentioned as meta , enable comments on the `Grounds` post type and
   you should be good.
 * If you want to take this a step further create a template for this post type 
   and add the meta details there so you can view / sort / filter and do other cool
   stuff on the front end
 * Interesting links
 * Native
    [https://generatewp.com/post-type/](https://generatewp.com/post-type/)
   [http://fooplugins.com/generators/wordpress-custom-post-types/](http://fooplugins.com/generators/wordpress-custom-post-types/)
 * Plugin
    [https://wordpress.org/plugins/pods/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/pods/)
   [https://wordpress.org/plugins/custom-post-type-ui/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/custom-post-type-ui/)
 * Templates
    [https://codex.wordpress.org/Post_Type_Templates](https://codex.wordpress.org/Post_Type_Templates)
   [http://blog.netgloo.com/2014/08/27/showing-single-posts-of-a-custom-post-type-in-wordpress/](http://blog.netgloo.com/2014/08/27/showing-single-posts-of-a-custom-post-type-in-wordpress/)
 * Cool stuff
    [https://wordpress.org/plugins/search-filter/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/search-filter/)
   [https://wptavern.com/beautiful-taxonomy-filters-for-wordpress-custom-post-types](https://wptavern.com/beautiful-taxonomy-filters-for-wordpress-custom-post-types)
 * Have fun !
 *  Thread Starter [mykolas99](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mykolas99/)
 * (@mykolas99)
 * [9 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/native-or-plugin/#post-8408144)
 * Awesome, thanks for that, well on my way with Custom Post Type UI and Custom 
   fields. Just working on the templating now! Appreciate the help 🙂

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