I am just creating a personal web site and I have a few hobbies I would like to start documenting data for. I used to use wpDataTables a lot, but now it won’t do what I need without a relatively hefty price tag…and for something personal I just can’t justify the price they want.
I wanted to be able to create various collections to represent “things” I have…I also wanted to be able to link between items in a various collections. Say I have a physical collection of “vintage 70s-and-80s robots”, then a collection of “remote control vehicles”, and another collection of “manufacturers” that made all of the things in the two previous collections. I want to be able to add a new object to my robots collection and have the manufacturer data selectable via drop down.
This same thing could be movies, or music, or whatever.
That is a very basic example, and the scope of this is a bit larger than that, but this is the basic functionality I am looking for. I am having trouble finding a collection showcase type of plugin. I am not selling anything, I just wanted to make a simple set of collections where relational data can be set up in a template and displayed publicly in an organized fashion.
Short of going part-time developer and trying to cobble together a custom plugin to do that in WordPress, does anyone know of any thing that would fit this need or that could be forced into fitting this need? I know I could do all fo this with tags and posts and whatever other things I could come up with but I could also see that snowballing into a big mess before too long.
Hopefully someone knows of something that will fit this project. 🙂
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Sounds like you need a filtering plugin if I’m understanding your need correctly?
Woocommerce in catalog mode with global attributes should pretty much cover this.
Or
Alternatively use PODS or ACF and set up a bunch of custom taxonomies for your posts.
For either option use a filtering plugin in the front end to allow users to browse through easily.