Im building a website on wordpress for a friends bar. His bar has about 100 beers on draft, and every week or so he drops 5, and adds 5 new ones. Whats the best way to list all of these beers in a location of the site where it will be easy to update them. The list will also need to be able to separate by style of beer or country of origin. Im sorry if Im not wording all of this right, I probably bif off a little more than I can chew here.
Hi jthall,
I would make each beer a post, under the category beer (or beverages or whatever). You could then set up the style of beer and country of origin either as sub categories, or tags. (Probably tags is better).
So let’s say you went with “beer” as your category, you can then view all the beer posts at http://yoursite.com/beer/
If you want to do any further tinkering with the page (further sorting by tag etc.) you can modify the category.php script.
Makes sense?
Yes this could work work but I was thinking more of a single page that lists all of the beer and their different qualities with a table or somehting. Then when you click on a particular beer it takes you to more info on that specific beer.
I would like to use the blog section of the site for posts like “5 new beers on tap” inside the post I could list the five beers that link to their respective pages. IDK maybe Im trippin
Put all the beers into a database and have a column to show if a beer is in stock or not - this means if a beer comes around again you do not have to upload all the details again.
Write some php code to query the database and display a list of all the beer in stock with a link to a page showing more detail. This is all dynamic and could be written on two or three pages.
I suppose your main problem is whether this can be done within the Wordpress CMS; that can be the problem using a CMS.
A thought:
I wonder if you could use a gallery plugin if there is nothing else available?
Have a beer bottle label image, different albums for different countries and if possible have the same image in two or three albums e.g album for types as well. Then have the text linked to the image if the label is selected.
The easiest way would be to forget Wordpress and write something of your own if you want a site like the one mentioned in #5