Advanced Custom Fields or something else?

  • Hi Guys,

    I aim to build an additional WP site to support my existing sites.

    We act as agents for various language schools, who offer courses in different languages, countries, and cities. The courses are suitable for different levels, their length varies, as does the number of hours and cost.

    As you can see there are an awful lot of variables!

    My aim is to build a site that is a fully searchable database of available courses. The fields must be easy loadable as the people inputting information will not, in all likelihood, be computer-savvy.

    Does anyone of you have experience or knowledge of a similar type of application?

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  • I have used Advanced Custom Fields recently to do something very similar with great results.

    The new pro version allows quite a lot of flexibility. It should be very easy for you to customize the backend user interface with intelligent labeling and help text to move your administrators through the content entry process.

    Difficulties I’ve encountered include:

    Bulk import / export of ACF values via CSV is not available out of the box. There are plugins you can use to do that, but they are ten times as expensive as ACF itself. You can also bulk import via MySQL, but YMMV on how easy that is.

    ACF has its own lingo. You have to learn it, but once you do, it’s great.

    The last update to ACF Pro was a little bumpy for me. The bumps are smoothed out now, but at first I was a little panicked to see things “breaking.” I worry that something similar will happen if Elliot Condon joins the circus or hands the project over to someone else, but all of your content is very well organized in the database via ACF. So, migration shouldn’t be more difficult than any other migration I’ve faced.

    You might also look at Relevanssi for the search component.

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