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 Blog: http://blog.sinabahram.com -----Original Message----- From: mcn-l-boun...@mcn.edu [mailto:mcn-l-boun...@mcn.edu] On Behalf Of Stan Orchard Sent: Tuesday, September 27, 2016 2:26 PM To: Museum Computer Network Listserv <mcn-l@mcn.edu> 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 _______________________________________________ You are currently subscribed to mcn-l, the listserv of the Museum Computer Network (http://www.mcn.edu) To post to this list, send messages to: mcn-l@mcn.edu To unsubscribe or change mcn-l delivery options visit: http://mcn.edu/mailman/listinfo/mcn-l The MCN-L archives can be found at: http://www.mail-archive.com/mcn-l@mcn.edu/ _______________________________________________ You are currently subscribed to mcn-l, the listserv of the Museum Computer Network (http://www.mcn.edu) To post to this list, send messages to: mcn-l@mcn.edu To unsubscribe or change mcn-l delivery options visit: http://mcn.edu/mailman/listinfo/mcn-l The MCN-L archives can be found at: http://www.mail-archive.com/mcn-l@mcn.edu/
