Creating Database Plugins in Wordpress
I'm very much a front-end developer who has built a couple WordPress sites, but nothing requiring databases or needed to go into the backend of Wordpress. I need to rebuild a local government directory website that has all the information for 91 cities and towns in my state with all the local government employees contact information, populations, square miles and other info. I need to figure out how to build this myself or what plugins that might already exist that could help me.
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The wordpress install comes with a db , typically MySQL but sometimes MariaDB, and built in way to query REST API.
Might think about creating custom post types with Advanced Custom Fields or Jet Engine (or if you know PHP , create your own).
If you have an existing spreadsheet with all this info you could connect to it instead.
I do have the spreadsheet and I have the old website, so, I was thinking of trying to see how they built it. I will look up the resources you mentioned. Thank you for your help. 😊