Hi, I’m working on a WordPress site for a client that offers business / management services to artists, actors, or performers. On their site, there will be a page talking about their business / management services, and it will also include a list of some of their current clients. On this page, you can click on the name or photo for any client that they have listed, and it will go to a dedicated page for that particular person.
On each individual person’s page, then, there will be some information about that person, and then a contact form that goes to my client. The contact form will also include a drop down, radio button, or checkbox to indicate the website visitor’s type of interest in that artist: for example, the person filling out the form would indicate if they’d like to book that particular person for a media appearance, book a performance, or to discuss brand partnerships.
Here’s my question – I’d like to set this up in an easily scalable way, so that long-term, as new individuals are added, I can just duplicate the page and customize the content, or, use some sort of plugin to add new people.
If this was just a content-only page, duplicating the page and swapping in content would be fine. For example, I could duplicate the page for “Bob Smith,” and just swap in a new name and new content for “Bill Johnson.”
But, the contact form is what I’m unsure about, because if I duplicate that same contact form from page to page, how do I easily indicate what artist an inquiry is pertaining to? It seems like I’d need to potentially duplicate the form and rename it, and re-hook it up each time you’re adding a person.
As one route I thought about, there could just be another dropdown in the universal contact form that says “who are you interested in”, but, if you were on Bob Smith’s page, it ideally should know you’re trying to book Bob Smith.
Any advice on plugins, or how to use WP Forms or something similar in a way that will make it easy for me as the developer, and the client, long term?
Thanks!
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Firstly, hopefully you have a Custom Post Type setup for your talent pages.
Secondly, make the talent name a field on the form, and when the form loads it automatically grabs the page’s slug e.g. “john-smith” and that value goes into a hidden field on the form. I use this method on a real estate website for the agent pages, works well.
For WPForms, you can use the {page_url} smart tag to do this.