Here's something built in almost exactly the way Sina describes:
http://bealearninghero.org/learning-tools/
Though I have to say, using an eCommerce platform for this is pretty
clever, and it might have "you may also like" features that work out of
the box, etc. On the other hand it may have lots of features that get in
your way (shopping carts).
On 09/27/2016 02:38 PM, Sina Bahram wrote:
If you don't need to, or aren't trying to, sell anything, then I suggest simply making a custom
post type (CPT) of Butterfly with the requisite fields you wish to track. Then use "Search and
Filter" as well as "Relevanssi". There are several ways of making the CPTs in a
GUI-like way, not the least of which is either ACF for adding custom fields, as its name suggest,
or using the PODs framework for achieving the same. ACF is a bit less complicated than PODs, and
probably does everything you need.
You can then customize the all of two or three files for single page and
archive views for Butterflies, and in a day or two have yourself a rather
marvelous DB-driven search aspect of your site, all within WP, and all under
your control.
Plus, all of this is free, except for "Search and Filter Pro", but trust me, it
is beyond worth the $20 or $40 they charge. It saves hours upon hours of billable time.
Hope that helps, and good luck!
Take care,
Sina
President, Prime Access Consulting, Inc.
Twitter: @SinaBahram
Company Website: http://www.pac.bz
Personal Website: http://www.sinabahram.com
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-----Original Message-----
From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Stan
Orchard
Sent: Tuesday, September 27, 2016 2:26 PM
To: Museum Computer Network Listserv <[email protected]>
Subject: [MCN-L] Online Catalog
Hello!
I’m working on a project where we want to allow users to search our database of
butterflies that populate our butterfly house…search by color(s), wing shape,
maybe some other criteria. We use Wordpress so it seems Woo Commerce is a safe
bet with maybe another plugin to turn off certain elements such as price. We’ll
have 150-200 entries in this database. This will utilize the same Wordpress
theme we’re using and it will be on the same domain, so part of our main site.
I’m looking for any examples of such a thing. Or any advice anyone may have
regarding this type of project. Should we set this up off our main site? Any
advantage/disadvantage to doing that? I have a feeling we’re missing something
as we work through this. Thanks.
Stan Orchard
Pacific Science Center
Seattle, WA
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