Title: Searchable Database Options
Last modified: April 18, 2018

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# Searchable Database Options

 *  Resolved [xseabiscuitx](https://wordpress.org/support/users/xseabiscuitx/)
 * (@xseabiscuitx)
 * [8 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/searchable-database-options/)
 * Hello! I am looking for plugin recommendations, ideas, suggestions, and just 
   general feedback on something I’m trying to figure out how to accomplish on my
   site. I’ve been searching through plugins that are available but I can’t seem
   to figure out how to be specific enough in my search to find what I’m looking
   for.
 * Basically, I am trying to make a searchable system of characters by name and 
   by color. It’s not a sales site, it’s not products or anything like that. Basically
   I want to have it where you type in red, and you see all the names of the characters
   that fall under red. Or if you type in Sam, and you see Sam falls under pink,
   brown, and white. I have roughly 420 names and 22 colors, with about 1200 combinations.
   It’s all listed in a spreadsheet. I don’t really care how long it takes me to
   enter them into the system, if I had to do them all individually, that’s fine.
   I just want to make it work and make it as nice and simple as possible.
 * So far my best idea is just doing pages, even though that sounds like a lot of
   pages and not very streamlined. If it comes to that, that’s what I’l do. I just
   wanted some outside opinions before I go down that path.
 * Thank you!
 * The page I need help with: _[[log in](https://login.wordpress.org/?redirect_to=https%3A%2F%2Fwordpress.org%2Fsupport%2Ftopic%2Fsearchable-database-options%2F%3Foutput_format%3Dmd&locale=en_US)
   to see the link]_

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 *  [Pioneer Web Design](https://wordpress.org/support/users/swansonphotos/)
 * (@swansonphotos)
 * [8 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/searchable-database-options/#post-10196375)
 * I might look at using this:
 * Make each **Color a Tag** for each **post**
    Make each **Character a Category**
   for each **post**.
 * Then: Create and output a custom search form:
 * [https://wordpress.org/support/topic/searchable-database-options/](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/searchable-database-options/)
 * There is much more than basic examples out there, but with a specific search,
   and with an experience web dev. for WP, it’s quite doable.
 *  Thread Starter [xseabiscuitx](https://wordpress.org/support/users/xseabiscuitx/)
 * (@xseabiscuitx)
 * [8 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/searchable-database-options/#post-10205546)
 * Thank you! The link I’m seeing is the link back to this post. Is it supposed 
   to be something else?
    -  This reply was modified 8 years, 2 months ago by [xseabiscuitx](https://wordpress.org/support/users/xseabiscuitx/).

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 * Last reply from: [xseabiscuitx](https://wordpress.org/support/users/xseabiscuitx/)
 * Last activity: [8 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/searchable-database-options/#post-10205546)
 * Status: resolved

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