vatodorov

Thank you for the thorough explanation. It helps a lot!

I have some knowledge of working with WordPress, but don’t know PHP. A friend of mine will help me with that.

Thanks. This is my own project so it is not for a customer.

Basically, I want to provide two different types of search functionalities to the website. I have an external dataset that is uploaded to a SQL database and I want to make it searchable. Upon search, the results should be displayed in a formated table on the WordPress website.

So, here are the two search functionalities I am trying to add:
1. I want to have a drop down menu similar to the one on the screenshot here: https://www.vatodorov.com/upload/Misc/Dropdown%20example.JPG
My database already has a field called State, but I don’t know how to put this drop-down on the website
2. I also want to provide a separate search that will let visitors search through names in my database. Again, the results of the search should appear formatted on the website.

I spent a lot of time in the WordPress forums yesterday and it seems like this can be achieved using the plugin WP-EXEC with some PHP and SQL coding.

Let me know if you have any other ideas.
Thanks

Hi jempan75,

Did you figure it out? I am trying to do something similar, but couldn’t find anything on the topic in the forums.

thanks,
Valentin

Hi apjdi,

How can I create the connection to the external database?

thank you.
Valentin

How to change the blog post page?
I want to alter the post page, and remove the comments, author, published, etc. links on the left side of the page. The goal is to give the page a non-blog look. I don’t want to write a blog, but can’t get rid of the post page.

If you need to see what I am refering to, go to the blog on my website which is https://www.vatodorov.com/blog

Thank you.
Valentin