Question

I have a small project for which I need to offer a CMS UI/storage system.

I am guessing that I can have my computer-fearing client use the WordPress UI to store a set of images for her gallery page, and a set of text for her testimonials page. And then, through a WordPress function, or raw SQL query into the database, I can get the data that I need on the page.

If this is possible, how do I do this?

Answer 1

We use the Pods CMS WordPress plugin to help us create custom data fields for our site, for areas where the typical post/page structure just isn’t appropriate.

Like everything else in WordPress, Pods is a little rough around the edges, but it does provide a fairly simplistic interface for pulling information out of a database, without the need for raw SQL, or bolting together custom fields for a post.

A simple example for looping over records might look like:

$mypod = new Pod('mypod');
$mypod->findRecords('date ASC', 15) // ORDER BY date ASC, LIMIT 15

while ($mypod->fetchRecord()) {
  $image = $mypod->get_field('image')
  ...
}

It also supports a basic set of relationships between Pod objects.