• I am struggling so much on building this website of mine. I am trying to build a photography sales system for my photo business as I cannot afford one of the prebuilt ones. But I am having so much trouble trying to make it happen. Currently I am attempting to build the product pages.

    I have several post types created. I have attempted to use several builders including
    types– Good for backend, but I haven’t been able to figure out how to make it work on the front end.
    pods– seems to work fine though I am having problems importing my data. Haven’t played with front end yet.
    advance custom fields: nice fields and all, but it seems like if you need it to integrate it with anything, you have to pay a butt load of money for the pro versions. which I don’t have, and often still require me to customize to fit my needs.
    and others.

    I have most of the regular php functionality just about figured out. I know how to calculate the fields and everything I need to display.

    BUT I still don’t understand how to form the loops, which files i need to create manually, and which can simply be done on a template builder. (I use visual composer that came with my theme. )

    I would like to use woocommerce but it would have to be very much modified for photography and my pricing system. I have a sample of what I am looking to accomplish that I will post at the end of all this.

    I also have gravity forms available with a very nicely crafted user registration and booking form. But I can’t get some of the data to map to the user meta fields correctly.

    So I’m thinking it may be easier to just make another custom post type for client data.

    So the point of this post is to ask for help in the following areas.

    1.Figure out what files to create to display the different pages of my sample site below and where to put them, and how to access them.

    2. help me create the loop needed to pull the meta data from two related post types (uc-product, and uc-product-group) To calculate the final prices dependent on client level.

    3. If someone could help me figure out how to remove the unneeded fields from woocommerce and add my own with the CPT fields designated above. That would be awesome. The link below was built with my wireframing software. If I could just figure out how to pass the variables to that and style it, I would be done by now.

    The part I am focusing on right now is the products pages. I have a relationship table also included. instead of individual database tables, those would be post types and the meta fields or taxonomies as labeled. Though, I’m starting to wonder if it would be easier to just create the individual tables and use regular mysql statements to pull the data.

    you will need a password to access the site. PW: demosite

    I hope someone can help me figure this out. I’ve been going nuts trying so many different things only to get close and not be able to get it.

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