I’ve spent the last month and a half working around the clock on a fairly large scale project based on BuddyPress and WordPress. Very little of the functionality is actually contained in the theme itself. Most of it wound up being broken into at least six different plugins that each serve a slightly different yet … Read more
I think manage_edit-post_type_columns and manage_posts_custom_column is what you’re looking for:
Custom Post Types (there are several plugins in the repo for that) Custom Meta Boxes/Fields – a good library is the »RW Meta Box« set of classes Extend the search – there are several answers that show you how to do this in the [tag:search] archive. Role Management: IMHO »Members« does the job best + … Read more
First, I think that the WordPress-QT analogy is fragile at best, and will not lead to much useful understanding of WordPress, or to many useful comparisons between WordPress and QT. The former is a web-based content-management system application; the latter is an application/UI development framework. The output of WordPress is user-created content; the output of … Read more
…use WP as a engine where user can contribute their post and others can review it. I don’t think you need a plugin for what you want to do. Enable user registration on your WordPress site by going to WordPress Dashboard > Settings > General and checking Anyone can register option. Then right below it … Read more
To customize which fields are shown in Pods UI, you can filter the default UI options through this filter / function combination. Overriding the $ui array with the options you wish to customize, this can be pretty quick and easy. function pods_ui_test ( $ui ) { // Test on UI Column $ui[ ‘fields’ ][ ‘manage’ … Read more
You might be misunderstanding exactly what WordPress is and how it operates. WordPress is a content management system, which in addition has it’s own API for working with the data held in the WordPress database as well as numerous other functions, actions and filters to help you achieve your desired result. WordPress also has it’s … Read more
WordPress is capable of everything, true but some features will need to be developed from scratch. But still, with WordPress you can save tons of hours of coding Also, this is an on going project that runs for few good years so be sure you are getting a great DB structure, fast and secured system, … Read more
You probably want one of the conditional tags. Possibly is_single(), or maybe get_post_type() == ‘post’ depending on how complex your setup is.
Just throw the values in your theme’s functions.php file and use them in your other templates. This is a little too simple to warrant writing a plugin.