• Resolved narkhedesarang

    (@narkhedesarang)


    Hello,
    We are a nonprofit and are new to WordPress and trying to figure out how best to create what we need and Name Directory sounds promising.

    All we need is a simple site with one directory type of page. It should look exactly like this https://changingthepresent.org/collections/george-washington-high-school-10002

    Note there are 140k schools, each of which will have a page like that.
    We do not need a way to search for them, as that will happen on a separate site. But we need each school page to have its own URL so schools can link directly to their page.

    Each of the “products” will be a student or a donation opportunity. Those pages will not be on the WP site. ALL the links on the school pages will go to a separate site. Student “products” have two links (profile and wish list, each on a separate site). We may have as many as 2k “products” in some schools, and a total of 5M – 10M products. Of course, we need pagination and caching.

    We do need the filtering by tag as you see on the left WITHIN a school (not site-wide).
    Search within a school would be nice but not essential, so long as we can filter on the left and show alphabetized results.
    The two forms at the bottom are just iframe embeds.

    Hence,
    Can we do this with Name Directory?
    Add Custom Post Types to accommodate the specific fields we need?
    Use a specific theme? Again, we want it to look exactly like the page at that URL I cited.
    MySQL database?
    Do you provide tools to manage the connection to it?
    We want to be able to add new products on the fly as we add them. Can we do that with Google Sheets, Zapier, Integromat, or something?
    Do you recommend a specific hosting company for this? 5 to 10M records and 500k to
    2M visits per month.

    Any help or suggestions will be highly appreciated!!
    Thanks.

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  • Plugin Author Jeroen Peters

    (@jeroenpeters1986)

    Hi @narkhedesarang,

    thanks for reaching out to me. I have checked your requirements, but I am afraid that Name Directory isn’t a great fit for you. It doesn’t meet the specification you elaborated on.
    As far as your other questions go, that is really something you need to ask a consultancy party. I think you have a great deal of must-have requirements and I (as a plugin developer) am not the right person to help you setup a whole site which seems to be pretty business-important.

    Wishing you all the best with your new website!

    Kind regards,

    Jeroen Peters

    Thread Starter narkhedesarang

    (@narkhedesarang)

    Hello @jeroenpeters1986,
    Thanks for the quick reply.
    I will definitely look for a consultancy party.

    Thanks.

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