The problem I am having with understanding / using Custom Post Types
(CPTs) isn't the defining of them - it's trying to use them in display
of anything other than the simplest output format. Wordpress has grown
organically to be extremely powerful - but that growth has left it
un-architected in many ways. Themes work with only some plugins, which
work with only some CPTs - and there is no proper templating sub-system
to handle display of those CPTs.
Visual Composer does indeed make it easy to define the layout / format
for simple pages - but (in general) can't seem to handle CPTs.
pods is pretty effective, and (at a reasonable price) includes a
template output system; I happily paid for it, but then found that it is
thoroughly self-contained - you have to stop using VC for either index
or individual pages.
types is (afaict from reading, haven;t yet tried it out) quite good -
but they recommend using their "Views" tool to create templates for
output - and that's a $150 cost. (OTOH it is (just in the couple of
weeks) integrated with Visual Composer). If I had reasonable confidence
that it would actually do what I want, I'd pay that without question -
but I've had lots of experiences of themes / plugins / etc. in Wordpress
that come with rather vague public documentation, and which turn out to
require either premium add-ons, or shortcode programming, or even PHP
programming, so I'm gun-shy of spending money to get to try something out.
So I'd request that whatever example app we come up with, we make show
both WP as a web site *and* LC- WP-rest-api to build an app. Michael's
suggestion of a member system sounds good. Another possibility would be
booking (e.g. appointments, or classes) with Woocommerce handling the
payments.
-- Alex.
btw - would it be worth having a separate forum for the whole lc-wp
discussion ? I would value benefitting from other' questions and your
replies :-)
(Personally, I'd prefer an email list - but I realize that forums seem
to be more popular nowadays).
On 07/07/2016 06:22, Todd Fabacher wrote:
Here are two plugins that will allow WP to become a customizable DB server
with little to no DB experience. Perfect for LC students and people who
want to get a DB setup online, but don't have the experience or know-how.
https://wordpress.org/plugins/advanced-custom-fields/
https://wordpress.org/plugins/acf-to-rest-api/
but also, I have found many Custom Post Type Plugins:
https://wordpress.org/plugins/custom-post-type-ui/
https://wordpress.org/plugins/types/
https://wordpress.org/plugins/pods/
https://wordpress.org/plugins/custom-post-type-maker/
We can look to adding this to the LiveCode WP Rest API library. I get
emails and I see some post of people asking how to setup a customized web
data server. These would do the trick. Plus most are open source and FREE,
but a few have a more feature rich commercial version.
We would like to focus on creating a sample App in LiveCode that utilized
WooCommerce. I think it is important to have several different example Apps
before we start to pitch to the WP community at large...any ideas????
Any other questions [please let me know. I have had about 2 dozen people
email with questions and express interest in integrating WP with LiveCode.
--Todd
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