User Data – Scalability

  • dunnydf

    (@dunnydf)


    5 years, 11 months ago

    Hi all,

    I am using ACF and ACF Frontend Form to collect additional profile data for users. For the moment this is OK as it basically stores the values for a completed membership form as part of their profile.

    However, I am beginning to realise I need to store more than this, for example license details, medical details, qualification details etc. To me just filling up the user profile is not scalable and I therefore need a different solution.

    I feel that this should involve creating custom post types with custom forms to maintain the post data but what I can’t get my head around is how I link it back to the user from an administration point of view. In other words I need to be able to easily see, for each user, all of their details across the different custom post types. I deally if I could search for a user, select their record andthe be able to update any of their data that would be great.

    Any thoughts on how I might do this? I can’t seem to figure out how I, as an administrator, build a form that allows me to edit data in the context of a user??

    Thanks

    • This topic was modified 5 years, 11 months ago by Jan Dembowski. Reason: Moved to Fixing WordPress, this is not an Developing with WordPress topic
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  • JNashHawkins

    (@jnashhawkins)

    5 years, 11 months ago

    My thoughts would be to look into one of the methods to moving the User data tables into its own database. There are several schemes I’ve seen for doing this…

    You won’t need to place the new database on its own server for now (unless your hosting only allows one database) but that would be an option for later if it starts bogging down the rest of the site.

    Later on, you might need a better solution yet involving more extensive database tables and schemes but this should get you pretty far into the future unless your site grows too quickly… In that case I’d hope you’d have it monetized to where you could purchase or hire out the better database solutions.

    Thread Starter dunnydf

    (@dunnydf)

    5 years, 11 months ago

    Thanks – possibly a better longer term solution but for now would like to try and manage with custom posts. I am assuming this is possible but I need a push in the right direction if anyone can add anything further?

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