WORDPRESS GEEKS! Help Please! Creating Portfolio Database

turncoat

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Right guys. I've got a question regarding setting up a website.

This is not the idea of the site, but the following explanation will explain how the site will run. I don't want to share the idea. Sorry:

Let's say that I wanted to create a website using Wordpress where visitors could pay $10 to set up a portfolio. The site would be for people in the design industry, so it would cater for Graphic Designers, Website Designers, Animation Designers and so on. On their portfolio, they could upload images, videos, and add a resume as well as a multitude of contact information.​

I would then need to have the option for other visitors to search the user database. For example, people could come to the site and Search for Graphic Designers in Ohio and it would show the necessary users.​

I'm sure there's a way to do it just using wordpress and plugins and maybe a little bit of coding chopping and changing but for the life of me, I cannot work it out.

Any help would be great and plugins you recommend as well.

Thanks in advance for ANY help.
 


Sounds like you have a pretty specific idea of what you want so you may need something custom. However if you want to hack it you might be able to do a wordpress multi site install or maybe try one of those user registration plugins. I am not using any atm so I can't recommend anything but a quick search brought up a bunch. Probably not much help but good luck.
 
The problem is, I looked at both that and Buddypress but they are too much like Social Networks. I do not need members to communicate with each other, and friend each other etc.
 
I'm sure it's not what you want to hear but stop trying to bang a square peg into a round hole. Wordpress sounds like a horrible platform for what you are trying to build.

Hack on joomla, drupal, dotnetnuke or a custom code base to get done what you need unless this is just going to be some STSO*


* small time slapdick operation
 
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if using wordpress, learn custom post types. if thats all to hard... use plugin 'easy post types'.

or preferrably custom code.
 
I know Wordpress is going to be awkward but I know Wordpress reasonably well. I have ZERO experience with Joomla, Drupal etc.
 
You don't know WP well enough to sort this issue out which means ou are gonna have to learn wtf to do...

If you use another platform, you'll have to learn what to do...

What difference does it make?