Can I achieve this complex user-centric solution in WordPress ?

  • Hi,

    I am in a fix as how to achieve a user populated database of searchable data.

    I need to give user a front-end from where he/she can enter his campaign and select pre-defined variable from the database. The scenario is

    1. The user, registers with the wordpress website and enters name, address, and description of his campaign
    2. Then user is then required to enter variables which are common to all campaign. These variables include:-
    1. Topic of Campaigns (Agriculture, Coastal, Biodiversity, …)
    2. Type of Activity (Campaign, Advocacy, Education, …)
    3. Material/Tools (Videos, Images, Documents, …)
    • The user is supposed to be presented with a dropdown of all these variables (which are filled for previous campaigns), so that if it matches with existing campaign, he/she can select it, otherwise writes a new value of the variable, which should then be added to the dropdown.
    • My first question would be:- How to achieve this in the Administrator?

      • My second question is showing this information in the site.

      These campaigns will be searchable from the website by the visitors. It will be done through the variables which are talked above.

      The user will be shows all these variables with their values in drop down to let people select the value they like and press search button.
      Whichever campaign matches their search should present itself.

      My second question would be:- That How to make search this complex in the website?

      I will be very thankful if you can assist me in anyway, may be through plugins, chunks etc.

      Many Thanks

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  • Thread Starter fas.khan

    (@faskhan)

    Any advice please ?

    Hi fas.khan,

    I have been thinking about something similar and was thinking it could work with custom post types and taxonomies. The taxonomies can work like categories (ie there is a list, but one can add more), but each taxonomy can be separate from the other in their own meta box for campaign creation.

    Taxonomies
    # Topic of Campaigns (Agriculture, Coastal, Biodiversity, …)
    # Type of Activity (Campaign, Advocacy, Education, …)

    Media?:
    Material/Tools (Videos, Images, Documents, …)

    You can then have widgets for each taxonomy to organise the campaigns.

    I have done something like this for events see icalevents.anmari.com/test. I coded up a custom post type/taxonomy type plugin with the necessary widgets as part of that event plugin. (I might separate it out actually – it may be useful!)

    You could then see whether there are any standard search plugins that could be made to work on taxonomies (If they work on categories or tags, it’s easy to get it to work on other taxonomies )

    I’d like to know what you ended up doing, as I will be coming back to that search question sometime.

    Thread Starter fas.khan

    (@faskhan)

    hi anmari,

    thank you very much for the reply. I am actually working on it and will post my workarounds for it here. ??

    Many thanks again.

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