Choosing the right “theme” or “builder” for a certain task.

  • Hi everyone,

    I’ve designed a website for a movie theater chain. I’m hoping to include an area on the homepage where movie posters of five movies will live side-by-side in a row. This ideally would function as a carousel, where the user can press right/left to see more movies in this row.

    Ideally this would be an easy task for the client to add more future movies themselves, using the framework of a builder or theme.

    I’m not proficient at wordpress, and have had a difficult time setting this up with the clients current plugin, Beaver Builder. Can anyone suggest a different builder to accomplish this? Link below … Thanks.

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  • Moderator bcworkz

    (@bcworkz)

    A page builder may not be the best approach. I recommend first focusing on how the client will easily add new movies to their site. Expecting them to learn to edit through a page builder may be asking a lot of some clients. It depends on the client’s computer aptitude in general.

    A solution easiest for the client might the most difficult for you ?? The backend input form they use could be a normal post edit screen enhanced by a custom fields plugin so we can ensure specific data elements can be managed in a consistent manner. Modifying the edit screen isn’t difficult with the right custom fields plugin. You’ll then have some nicely structured data to work with.

    However, collecting such data and outputting it in an attractive manner will likely involve custom coding. For example, each movie could be it’s own post, the featured image always being the related poster. The front page template could query for the five most recent movie posts to get the featured image from each, which is then output to appear side by side.

    Thread Starter hanzzyolo

    (@hanzzyolo)

    Thank you for the insightful reply.

    I’m not capable of coding something like this or the carousel element I described unfortunately…. I believe a page builder may be the best solution here, in which case if I don’t find a proper builder for this element I may need to adjust the design to include all the movies in one area instead of one row on a carousel..

    Moderator bcworkz

    (@bcworkz)

    There are a number of carousel plugins available. They all vary in how one adds images to a particular carousel. Some may have an UI that your client would find usable, others probably not. But adding images this way might not relate to other data for the same movie.

    IMO, if you can find a carousel plugin that uses featured images from a subset of posts, such as all posts in a specific category, it would be the best solution because then all of a movie’s data can be contained in one place such as post, or some other post type registered for this purpose.

    These plugins typically provide a shortcode that can be placed in post content where you wish the carousel to appear. Shortcodes should work fine when added through most page builders.

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