How to build a featuers page without page builder plugin?

  • Hi,

    I want to build a custom theme for WordPress. Based on a starter theme like understrap. I have understood the basic concept behind building a custom theme from scratch. But how should I organize the content for some pages in the backend?

    For example: I want to create a features page, with sections containing a text an image (alternating right/left), sections with cards, etc.

    I don’t want to use a page builder plugin for that, and gutenberg don’t seem to be fully suited for that.

    So I want to create a custom template for the features page, that can display the content as required by the design.

    But how should I organize the content in the backend, so that my client can handle it conveniently?

    Should I create a post for each section and loop through the category of this posts. Or would you create a custom post type with ACF?

    Has anyone experience with this?

    Thx
    Paul

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  • Moderator Steven Stern (sterndata)

    (@sterndata)

    Volunteer Forum Moderator

    I’ve used Advanced Custom Fields for things like that. I don’t think you’d need a CPT; it could be done with a global page template.

    Moderator bcworkz

    (@bcworkz)

    Do you really even need custom fields? If your features goal is to display a list of text blocks along with an image, alternating where the image appears, you mainly need a global (or maybe specific) page template. And some way to distinguish features posts from others. A post type is one option. Or use categories, tags, or some other taxonomy. It could even be a custom field if you prefer.

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