Trying to create s table (?) with pictures and text

  • I can’t find help on Google with this because I don’t know how to word the query for what I am looking for.
    In a previous website I had a listing of 200 high school classmates. Photo in left column and biography in right column.
    I would like to move that table into my new WordPress website, but haven’t figured out a way.
    Do I need a table plugin?
    any ideas appreciated.

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  • Various options:
    – You could use your existing table html (with adjustments for the image file locations), just add it into a page in HTML mode, give the <table> a class so that you can target styles. This leaves you with a difficult update/edit operation if you ever want to add or change entries.
    – Now I have not done anything like this myself, but in theory you could:
    . Create a custom post type called say “bio”, there will be one for each classmate, fields would be imagefilename, name, biography, year etc
    . In your child theme create a customised page template for single bio posts and for multiple bio posts which is called an archive
    . you may be able to filter on the fields to show selections of entries
    . you should be able to bulk load the posts using your present data
    – My approach as a coder and developer would be to create a plugin that declared shortcodes that would query and display and edit a separate database table.

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