MtnExile

Well…I guess the only thing to do is go off the high board into custom fields. As for writing my own plugin…I can <i>spell</i> “plugin.” Is that a start?

Thanks for taking the time to help.

Sure.

Here is the original site. I’m working to update it as a WordPress site (still under development…don’t expect too much), and I need to find a way to create the menus so they’re easily editable. I also need to incorporate this site, since the two restaurants are merging.

The Ritrovo site was done in Concrete 5 (a problem in itself). In that, I was able simply to create a form with three fields, “Name, Price, Description,” and use that to fill the menu page. I have no idea if it’s possible to do something like this within WordPress without using a plugin. The article I found on using Flutter described a method for doing it, but only with the Flutter plugin, of course; and when I installed it, it didn’t work.

Popper–

Thanks, but I’m not sure even that addresses my problem. I don’t want to add custom information to a post; I want to construct a menu on a page. Name, price, description; name, price, description; name, price, description, over and over again. I’ve tried plugins, and they break the site. I’ve tried Flutter, and it apparently doesn’t work anymore either (it adds “Restaurant Menu” to the dashboard, but when I click on it I get a “not found” error).

So I’m down to begging for help.

What you’re describing seems to suggest that I could create a menu if each item was a separate post, each one consisting of three custom fields. That makes it more difficult for the end user to edit later on; but more to the point, now, is: how do I arrange the posts? I need to show only the menu items, and not any other post; I need to be able to display them in whatever order the client decides; and on the blog, I have to keep the menu items from showing up. How is all this this done?

Julia…that tutorial, and every other one I’ve seen, might as well be written in Sanskrit.

This should be simple: three fields, “Name,” “Price,” and “Description.” Repeated over and over again. But how? Not one tutorial says “Just do this, then this, then this.” Pardon me for venting–I realize this isn’t your problem, and you’re just trying to help–but there simply is no non-graduate level course out there for people like me who just want to get a start on things. It is excruciatingly frustrating.

Thanks for replying, Julia. The problem is that I have no idea how to use custom fields, having never used them before. The only sites I have found on the subject assume a familiarity on the reader’s part that I don’t have (and frankly, it all seems like a hack to me). Do you know of any site that has a “step 1…step 2…step 3” approach?