Customized CMS Choice Suggestions

Requests for theme or plugin suggestions are typically placed in the Fixing WordPress sub-forum. I realize this is not very intuitive. Look at it this way: “My site is not working the way I want. I’d like a theme or plugin to fix this.” ??

I’m not aware of any plugin that does what you want. However, the WP back end can be customized to work in any way you see fit. It may require custom coding to do so, but it’s possible to get what you want.

I don’t understand what sort of behavior you want regarding Wi-Fi.

The link generated from the media is then sent to a Wi-Fi router, which the router then calls up to display the media to customer

That much is normal behavior (assuming they’re using Wi-Fi at all), though how you’ve described it isn’t 100% accurate.

before they get rerouted to internet access

This I don’t understand. The purpose of Wi-Fi is largely to gain access to the internet. While one can also connect to other LAN resources via Wi-Fi, there’s no reason their LAN would ever have your client’s media files locally unless someone had already downloaded the files. Media files will invariably come from your server over the internet every time. WP has no control over how someone’s LAN is configured.

Thanks for that, bcworkz. Hopefully a moderator can move the thread to the correct forum area.

The media files are stored online, on a remote server/host (I want to build a simplified version of something like socifi.com basically), and the media file link is then programmed into a router at designated hotspots. When a user logs onto that specific router, the router is programmed to retrieve the media from the remote server via the link, and displays it on the user’s device, before allowing them to access the internet offered by the wifi. Think of it as having to watch an advert, as “payment” before you can access the internet on that specific router.

The adverts are changed out every week or two, and I just want to make it simple for myself and the advertisers to access and work on the media side. I must admit I am not proficient on wordpress, but I guess I’ll have to play around a bit with how to customize the back end, the front end is simple enough to do, even from a blank template, so I don’t have to do so much PT for existing and new advertisers. Each advertiser will have their own page on the “tree”, and that will host the media preview (Advertisers need to check the files are current and in proper ratio/format before being broadcast) and the link to the current media, and I just want to be able to upload the new media file, send or allow the advertiser to view their specific page or link, without having to go into cpanel and go the long way around or redo an entire page each time, unless it’s for creating a new page for a new advertiser.

I hope that makes better sense now?

Thanks again for the reply.

Thanks for clarifying your hotspot scheme. It does not directly relate to WP anyway, so whether I understood it or not is somewhat moot. It’s just that I feel lost when I don’t understand something ??

I did move your topic to a better sub-forum. I neglected to be explicit about it being done. The topic’s URL remains the same so you likely didn’t notice.

As I said, someone can build a back end UI to accomplish nearly anything they desire. Whether there’s an existing plugin or not is another story. The more specific the need, the less likely there’s an existing plugin for it. You’re likely looking at something that needs to be custom coded. Even so, it’s always worth seeing what plugins are available. Sometimes a plugin that’s kind of close to what you want but not close enough can be further modified. This would minimize the amount of custom work needed.

I’m not sure about all of what you need to change for any given page, but it’s conceivable to build a page template for the purpose, where what ever is different from one advertiser to the next is all managed through a series of custom fields. Custom fields plugins can make this process relatively straight forward. You could likely build a back end UI with no or little coding with the right plugin.

What ever coding effort there is will be in building the front end page template which utilizes all of the custom field data that was input through the back end. You’re unlikely to find a plugin for this part. Your best option may be to start with a copy of your theme’s default page template and modify as needed.