Use some custom post template, or something else?

  • Hi all,

    I have several thousand photos from which we want to create photo travel blog, mostly consisting of photo series. Each photo series will have 10 pages – elements – and on each element there will be a header photo across the page, under it will be social icons, large navigation buttons >>> <<<, description, thumbnails of additional photos, tips about the place in the photo, the closest hotel referrals, one advert place, facebook comments, etc.

    Entering data to this will be outsourced to user that has no technical knowledge at all, so the process should be easy to do – so he/she should have possibility just to easily add photo to each page of serie, articles, additional photos (can be via html), text1, text2, affiliate links, etc to some form or something like that… This is why I don’t want to use carousel – its possible to add only text, and i need to add specific structured page…

    While it seems to me that this ought to be done through custom post template, I unfortunately found no plugin that would be user-friendly to enter data and capable to do this – but maybe I’m missing something, because I installed some, created template, but it is using only featured photo, so I have problem with other pages of serie after pagination – and the result looks like total mess to me…

    Although I am a former programmer, i am still not good using web development languages, especially php… So, I do not know how to divide the template to 10 pages or how user would enter the content of individual building blocks to the page.

    I created a primitive html/js example of how it should look like here, but I want WP, because of better organization, plugins, work with the tags, social, etc. …

    https://www.travelita.eu/001spain/001005Montserrat/index.html

    Should i use some custom post template plugin, or do it by creating the page manually, using page builder and then duplicate post to create new? If custom post template – is there some plugin, which would create the template fillable easily by user?

    Thanks a lot,

    Peter

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  • Hi Peter,
    Have you thought of using a contact from plugin to submit content to your custom post types? I have done something similar using Formidable Forms with a premium add-on to submit to post. I know Gravity forms have similar capabilities. In this way you could have a frontend highly customisable interface that creates entries to draft for you to publish. There are probably more plugins available that create this capability.
    Hope this will be a helpful tip.

    Thread Starter travelitaeu

    (@travelitaeu)

    Thanks Ronald, I will try them…

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