Basically, I am trying to make a searchable system of characters by name and by color. It’s not a sales site, it’s not products or anything like that. Basically I want to have it where you type in red, and you see all the names of the characters that fall under red. Or if you type in Sam, and you see Sam falls under pink, brown, and white. I have roughly 420 names and 22 colors, with about 1200 combinations. It’s all listed in a spreadsheet. I don’t really care how long it takes me to enter them into the system, if I had to do them all individually, that’s fine. I just want to make it work and make it as nice and simple as possible.

So far my best idea is just doing pages, even though that sounds like a lot of pages and not very streamlined. If it comes to that, that’s what I’l do. I just wanted some outside opinions before I go down that path.

Thank you!

Make each Color a Tag for each post
Make each Character a Category for each post.

Then: Create and output a custom search form:

https://www.ads-software.com/support/topic/searchable-database-options/

There is much more than basic examples out there, but with a specific search, and with an experience web dev. for WP, it’s quite doable.