Page (or Post) with boxes to complete under the editing area

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    9 years, 10 months ago

    I’m not sure of the terminology, I’d like to have a unique page set up or template for one subject e.g. Teachers and have a separate page for each teacher. Beneath the editing area for a WordPress Page I want to have some boxes to complete e.g. Name, Location, Subject, email address etc etc.
    After clicking publish all the details will be on that teachers page.
    Can anyone suggest where I should start to look in the codex please, or are there any plugins? If I knew the correct terminology I could start looking.
    Thanks.

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  • To answer your last question, you are wanting to create a custom meta box with custom fields.

    Under screen options on the WordPress post edit screen you will find a custom fields checkbox. If you click that, WordPress will allow you to add additional post meta data, which you can then use in your theme. But I think a better solution would be this:

    WordPress has a User Role called Author. This role only allows people to create posts. Contributor does something similar. I would research those two roles and see which one fits your needs best.

    By giving making your authors users, WordPress out of the box has things like bio, social profile links, etc. And for an example of how this data could be used in a theme to create an author bio box at the end of posts, check out the new default theme 2015.

    You could do that with a Custom Post Type and /or possibly using custom fields.

    https://www.advancedcustomfields.com/

    You might find a plugin here.

    https://premium.wpmudev.org/projects/category/plugins/

    Check out their paid service here.

    https://edublogs.org/

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    (@pgb)

    Many thanks to mrbobbybryant and Radices.

    Thread Starter pgb

    (@pgb)

    Resolved.

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