I do construct WordPress websites and plug-ins, although I take into account myself extra of a PHP developer, and that is how my thoughts thinks first, not instantly figuring out quite a lot of the accessible WordPress features.
I must construct a customized plug-in for a shopper, so as to add the power to host on-line contests. The precise contest components I am good with, as that shall be PHP, however I am making an attempt to determine one of the best ways to interface the contests with WordPress. The URLs shall be like…
sitename.com/contest-name/ – most present contest (will present both voting or outcomes relying on standing)
sitename.com/contest-name/2021/ – previous contest (will present outcomes)
There are three several types of contests –
- Single-category: All entrants are competing in opposition to one another
- Multi-category: Entrants are competing in opposition to others in the identical class
- Survey: The competition is closed to the general public and voters are authenticated
My first thought was to do all of it in PHP, however then I assumed for the URL construction, possibly every contest must be a customized submit sort “contest”. However then I went down the rabbit gap questioning if every year must be a separate submit, or ought to I’ve contest-X be a submit of sort “contest” after which deal with the person years with customized PHP.
Additionally… the place would I specify the kind of contest? I’d simply need to restrict it to the three sorts, and require that every contest have a kind specified. Post_meta might be the place for it, however it’s larger degree than even the title, so I used to be contemplating placing it in an unused subject proper within the posts desk (post_excerpt?).
I additionally thought-about making it shortcodes, and the shopper can simply make a brand new web page with the URL they need and put in shortcodes for the competition. Although that will require extra work from the shopper that I hoped the plug-in would streamline.
I am positive there are different WordPress methods to method this as properly. I can actually code it in any of them, I am simply discovering myself second guessing “What if I spend weeks engaged on it a method and notice it could have been a lot better to do it this different manner?”.
Is there an method that extra skilled WordPress builders would agree “That is the way in which to method it”?
