Creating simple status overview / Let authors pick from list of states

  • dogc

    (@dogc)


    1 year ago

    I am creating a page for a local golfclub. One of the pages should show a status overview of various aspects of the club, e.g.:

    Carts: Allowed
    Trolleys: Allowed
    18 Hole Course: Open

    Now, those states are updated by members of the greenkeeping team who are not very much familiar with WordPress at all.

    Ideally I’d love to create a simplified (backend) interface which would allow them to quickly pick the state for each entry from a dropdown list and then render front end content based on their selection.

    Is there any Plugin that can do something like this? Or would custom post types help?

    If someone can push me into the right direction, that would be perfect.

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  • Moderator bcworkz

    (@bcworkz)

    How is each club’s data saved (besides status)? Is it just the nature of the page’s content? It could make more sense to have a custom post type to store club data in, then have a custom template generate the info page for every club. But just relying on page content is certainly easier to implement.

    Whether post type or page content, it makes the most sense to save states as meta data tied to the custom post or page. In order to easily enter and save status data, I suggest using a custom fields plugin of some sort. You’d then rely upon a custom template or shortcodes to convey the saved states for any given club.

    Securely managing who can edit what can be a challenge. The easy solution is grant everyone too much power, which means terrible security. Also consider some sort of membership plugin to help better manage who can do what.

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