[Resolved] Setting Up a Custom Review Template With Toolset
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I have been racking my brains trying to figure out how I can use Toolset to build a custom Gear Roundup template that would look something like this on the front end:
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The Items - in this case, swing sets - would only belong to that one specific post - so it wouldn't make sense to set up a custom post type for them.
I would want to be able to enter information for each of the reviewed items in the back end with custom fields for things like:
Item Title
Item Image
Item Description
Item Price
Pros (a list)
Cons (a list)
Rating for 1st Criteria
Ratings for 2nd Criteria
Ratings for 3rd Criteria
Aggregate Rating (combination of 3 above)
Also, the amount of items reviewed would change from post to post so just creating say 10 items in the backend for each post would not really work. It would have to be changable.
Do you have any info on setting up this sort of site? Honestly, I have no idea where to start or even what questions to ask, or if Toolset is even the right thing to use for this.
Seems like you would need a custom post type "review" that had custom fields as you outline.
You would be publishing lots of reviews, and you would need to group those reviews around something, i.e. the things being reviewed.
You would typically group things with taxonomies, and that is a viable option even if applying an "outdoor-playset-swingset" term to 9 or 10 review posts seems a little different than the typical use of taxonomies for, say, car brands.
I think you maybe want a "Gear Roundup" post type, that is the parent of a "Review" post type.
So you create a parent "Outdoor Playset Swingset" post, which lives at site.com/gear-roundup/outdoor-playset-swingset/, and add as many Review child posts as appropriate, which you display in your Gear Roundup template using a View.
It's maybe not so complicated, unless I'm overlooking something.
