I need basic help with custom post types

Basically here’s my project:

I have to create a back-end wordpress gui user input section. The user will enter details about their projects like name, location, what it is, some other details. A page will display the top 9 recent or so in a 3×3 grid. There will be a search bar to search projects for related tags.

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I have currently:

  • used functions.php to setup my post
    type and it works
  • used simple forms plugin to create
    forms on the add new page

Background: I am a pretty entry level person in wordpress, and slightly overwhelmed right now. But, it’s slowly coming together. Any input on structure or anything would be appreciated.

Update: I have created the forms, but I need to know what to put in the single-projects.php to display the content from the forms.

Thank you so much

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  1. I’d take a look at one of these plugins:

    http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/custom-field-template/

    http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/simple-fields/

    I use Custom Field Templates (CFT) on almost every project I do, specifically so that I can assign (better looking) Custom Fields to my defined Custom Post Types. There’s a number of tutorials around the web on how to get data back out of WP once its been stored as a Custom Field…these plugins just make it prettier/easier on the administrative side.

    Hope that helps…