One of the challenges with running Wordpress as a CMS (per my previous post) is being able to extend the core features to accomplish the goals for your site. These next series of articles will examine how to get more out of Wordpress than you had ever thought possible. For example purposes, we are going to create a Real Estate site powered by Wordpress 2.1.3. Lets get started…
- Write » Posts » and then enter a title… “Two Bedroom Ranch with a View”
- You might also want to add a new category called “Listings” if you haven’t already.
- In the post box, add a description about your property, upload some photos etc.
- Enter a new key… “Price” and a value… ” $150,000″ » click Add Custom Field
- Repeat Step 4 for each value. For example, you might want to add Agent, Status, Beds, Baths etc. Then publish your post when you’re done.
Tip: Every time you add custom field (key), it will appear in the dropdown box the next time you add a post/listing. You don’t need to type it in again!
Now all we need to do is get the information to display on your site. I have made available a modified version of the default theme in wordpress. Simply download this theme, extract the files, upload it to your wordpress themes directory and activate it. It’s called ‘Wordpress Default 2′.
Keep checking back as future articles will discuss how to make these custom fields more visually appealing both in your admin and on your live site.
Move on to Part 2 - Admin.
Looks like an excellent start! Good job!
A suggestion would be to extend on this and break out the code so it is easier to update your own template.
How do you mean exactly?
Well I want to incorporate this in to my template rather than yours. So if I knew the code to slot in I would do that. Perhaps it should work without but I am not having much luck.
What trouble are you having? Have you gone through all three parts of this tutorial? I’ll be more than happy to answer some specific questions.
Ok so I have Part one to work with your template “default 2″. What I am trying to do is fine the code in that template that displays the custom fields so I can slot it in to my template.
Thanks for the help I really do appreciate it.
I finally worked it out!
I think all you ned to tell people is to make sure they have:
in their post area.
I will now move on to step 2!
Is it possible to set up a custom field that, instead of accepting text data, contained an image instead. If this was possible, it would be very easy to place an image exactly where you wanted within a page. This would be excellent if you were trying to go for a standard directory look.
Cheers
Joe
Why can’t text data be the name of a file? And then just stick that in an image tag? For example, create a custom field called ‘Image’… and then the person enters in: photo.jpg and you pull in that ‘text’ into the theme.
Hi,
This is a brilliant tutorial/plugin. I am also trying to adapt it to my template. What code must we place in our template page to get it to work on our templates.
Thanks
Read Part 2 and 3
If you still have questions, let me know.