Pods for Restaurant Review & Directory Website

  • Resolved saqib62

    (@saqib62)


    4 years, 8 months ago

    I’ve got three queries, all related to a single website which involves the potential use of Pods.
    Query#1:
    I’ve a restaurant review website which I want to upgrade in two ways. Right now I’m writing reviews for just a single city. I want to expand that to multiple cities and multiple countries. That’s one upgradation.
    Secondly, I want to expand the site to act as a restaurant listing directory in addition to restaurant reviews. Now there will be a lot of common denominators and categories.
    A restaurant which is listed in the directory may have a review as well or it may not. In any case, both the review and the listing would be under a common city and country. Even the type of cuisine offered by the restaurant will be common to both the reviews and the listing.
    In short, country, city and cuisine will be shared between the two sections of the website.
    Now the challenge is whether to define country as a taxonomy or a custom post type. There are opposing schools of thought where some experts recommend using country as a taxonomy with cities being the fields under it. Then there are others who recommend creating country as a custom post type because a custom post type can have a dedicated page in wordpress whereas a taxonomy cannot.
    Kindly suggest the most efficient way to organize the schema. I don’t want to scale up the website using Pods in a way that it creates more clutter and overlaps then without it.
    Query#2:
    Is it better from a permalink perspective to create a custom post type for reviews or use the core wordpress post type?
    Query#3:
    Is there a theme in the wordpress theme repository that already incorporates Pods and displays them on the front-end?

    Would appreciate any guidance I can get on these queries.

    The page I need help with: [log in to see the link]

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  • Plugin Author Jory Hogeveen

    (@keraweb)

    Query#1:
    Whether a country is a taxonomy or post type depends on how you are planning to use it. It it’s just for filtering you should use a taxonomy.

    Then there are others who recommend creating country as a custom post type because a custom post type can have a dedicated page in wordpress whereas a taxonomy cannot.

    Not entirely true.. A taxonomy page also has it’s own URL and can be extended using custom fields and templates.

    Query#2
    Not sure what you mean by core wordpress post type. If you are referring to comments, these are not post types in WordPress core.
    Again, here it’s also depending on what you want to do with them. You could just extend WordPress core comments with the required extra fields and use their tempaltes for comments. I think this would be the easiest.

    Query#3
    Not that we know of.

    I do feel the need to refer you to the following page:
    https://docs.pods.io/faqs/what-can-you-build-with-pods/
    While I understand the possibilities with WordPress and Pods can be quite overwhelming at first, full education on this is out of scope for Pods support.

    Cheers! Jory

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