Best approach for custom database driven Wordpress pages?

October 17, 2018 11:03 AM

Howdy, I'm prototyping a product and hacking it together with Wordpress. I'm basically building a directory -- but fairly large - a couple million entries, each with 50 or so fields of interesting data. Is there a plugin which can help me lay out these fields in a simple way, or is best approach to just custom develop specific templates? Thanks in advance, Hivemind!
posted by mtstover to Technology (5 answers total)

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posted by pyro979 at 11:53 AM on October 17, 2018 [1 favorite]

Best answer: Um, all Wordpress pages are database driven. If you want to add custom fields, you can install a plugin that will let you add as many as you want. I've used Pods before and found it to be really easy to use and customize.
posted by dawkins_7 at 12:12 PM on October 17, 2018

You need to give a lot more details here.

Lay them out how? For what purpose? Used by whom?
posted by humboldt32 at 12:32 PM on October 17, 2018

You want the plugin that is literally called Custom Fields.
posted by DarlingBri at 1:39 PM on October 17, 2018 [1 favorite]

Response by poster: Thanks - appreciate it! I know WP pages are database driven, just wondered if there were easy tools for working with the data or if I had to write the php!
posted by mtstover at 6:40 AM on October 18, 2018