Title: Custom database entry through form
Last modified: August 19, 2016

---

# Custom database entry through form

 *  [fhmtech](https://wordpress.org/support/users/fhmtech/)
 * (@fhmtech)
 * [17 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/custom-database-entry-through-form/)
 * hey,
 * I was wondering whether it was possible to have a custom form having custom fields
   and the information entered will get stored into a database.Then users visiting
   the site can search for the info through a search. Also the data can only be 
   entered by the admin and if the info can be changed and viewed by the admin.

Viewing 6 replies - 1 through 6 (of 6 total)

 *  [Austin Matzko](https://wordpress.org/support/users/filosofo/)
 * (@filosofo)
 * [17 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/custom-database-entry-through-form/#post-949655)
 * What you describe is basically how WordPress works: admins or authors enter in
   data (blog posts), it gets stored in a database, and visitors can use the search
   feature to search it. You can also also assign an indefinite number of custom
   fields to each post (they’re actually even called “Custom Fields” and located
   below the post composition textarea).
 * So you’re in luck!
 *  Thread Starter [fhmtech](https://wordpress.org/support/users/fhmtech/)
 * (@fhmtech)
 * [17 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/custom-database-entry-through-form/#post-949701)
 * thanks a lot for the reply, i understand that but let me explain my problem
 * I creating this website for small education counseling company and they require
   to enter some data that gets stored in a database which can be modified, data
   added later, and users can search the data. This data must be entered via a form
   and stored in the database. The thing is it has to be simple so that a non-technical
   person can enter the data into the database.
 * Custom fields are like Course name, University, country, location and etc.Say
   for instance someone wants to know which university has a course on medicine,
   a user will search for medicine and the search results which provide a list of
   universities which offer medicine as a course.
 * This is the concept. I have been searching for this option quite some time but
   found nothing, think it has to be customized.The only way i could figure it out
   which would be easier for anybody who it not tech-savvy is to use a form which
   can be only be used by the admin and should be hidden from the public. Is there
   any way to create a form with these custom fields or is there any plugin available
   for this?
 * Thanks in advance
    fhmtech
 *  [mrmist](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mrmist/)
 * (@mrmist)
 * [17 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/custom-database-entry-through-form/#post-949702)
 * You could try [cforms](http://www.deliciousdays.com/cforms-plugin). That’s essentially
   designed as a contact form manager plugin but it might serve your purpose, or
   at least give you coding ideas if you need to write your own.
 *  Thread Starter [fhmtech](https://wordpress.org/support/users/fhmtech/)
 * (@fhmtech)
 * [17 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/custom-database-entry-through-form/#post-949716)
 * I was also thinking about cforms, but I myself being still a rookie at using 
   wordpress I don’t think I will be able to write my own codes yet.
 *  [mrmist](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mrmist/)
 * (@mrmist)
 * [17 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/custom-database-entry-through-form/#post-949717)
 * I am not convinced that you will be able to completely avoid doing some amount
   of coding or tweaking, as it’s unlikely that someone will have written exactly
   the form that you want.
 *  Thread Starter [fhmtech](https://wordpress.org/support/users/fhmtech/)
 * (@fhmtech)
 * [17 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/custom-database-entry-through-form/#post-949754)
 * i can probably modify the fields but it is possible to do something like this.

Viewing 6 replies - 1 through 6 (of 6 total)

The topic ‘Custom database entry through form’ is closed to new replies.

## Tags

 * [custom fields](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/custom-fields/)
 * [database](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/database/)
 * [forms](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/forms/)

 * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
 * 6 replies
 * 3 participants
 * Last reply from: [fhmtech](https://wordpress.org/support/users/fhmtech/)
 * Last activity: [17 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/custom-database-entry-through-form/#post-949754)
 * Status: not resolved

## Topics

### Topics with no replies

### Non-support topics

### Resolved topics

### Unresolved topics

### All topics