Helping a buddy a small project to help with volunteer staffing. I setup a simple WordPress site using a host that he is already using for something else. Found some plugins that offer the functionality we needed.
* Allow users to update entries on a MySQL table to show if they are available or not and enter notes
* Allow users to view this showing two output tables, one shows available and the other shows unavailable.
Super simple, super easy. Done. But now they want more and I can’t say no.
The changes all revolve around formatting the output tables based on the type of volunteer they are OR how long since their last status update. All the plugins I have found that let me use the WordPress databases don’t allow for row based formatting based on the output unless we pay them a decent chunk of change on a subscription model.
I am data guy by trade (SQL/Tableau/Alteryx) and I know enough Python to get myself in trouble. I have found some VERY old articles online about how to use my own PHP to achieve this desired output but none of them are less than 5 years old.
Looking for either a plugin that will allow me to do this OR a recent-ish article that describes how to use my own PHP to accomplish this OR ? Maybe there is a different/better way to achive these goals that I hadn’t though of.
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>I have found some VERY old articles online about how to use my own PHP to achieve this desired output but none of them are less than 5 years old.
That doesn’t make the articles incorrect. WordPress is 20 years old now. PHP older than that. Outputting HTML hasn’t changed in the last 20 years, much less 5.
I don’t know if the functionality exist in this plugin without paying, but WPDatatables is the most widely used and best option when making tables.
As someone else mentioned both WordPress and PHP are pretty old. You very well may not need something recent.
If you are comfortable looking at code, ChatGPT can also walk you through how to create a plugin, or adjustments to the functions.php to output what you might want.