Hello,
Below is a paragraph from a work colleague to whom I have suggested toolset might be a better solution for our community directory project - than the set up he has now. I am not savvy enough to comment on his last sentence. Could one of you?
Here it is: “I think my main question was how its data is structured in the DB. The current Formidable situation is a PITA because it uses Formidable-specific tables, as well as standard WP tables (leading a situation that probably requires more complex custom code than if we didn’t have a plugin for it). Data from a single community is spread around in a really sub-optimal way. If Toolset stores data in the standard posts+postmeta+taxonomies structure it might be worth considering.”
Our site, where I am hoping to install Toolset to replace Formidable, etc etc is hidden link. Toolset would be used for our community directory: hidden link and hidden link. The current search function is very very poor.
I look forward to hearing from you.
Thank you
Neil
Hello,
Toolset Types plugin is using standard WordPress function and database table to store custom posts/taxonomies/custom fields.
And we have some demo site(built with Toolset plugins) with custom search form + Maps, for example:
hidden link
But if you need to setup post type relationship:
https://toolset.com/documentation/post-relationships/how-to-set-up-post-relationships-using-toolset/
The post relationships data are not stored in standard WordPress database tables, but in Toolset tables, here are the table names:
- wp_toolset_associations
- wp_toolset_relationships
And you can retrive the related posts by following our document:
https://toolset.com/documentation/post-relationships/how-to-display-related-posts-with-toolset/
If you are familiar with PHP codes, you can use relationship API functions:
https://toolset.com/documentation/customizing-sites-using-php/post-relationships-api/
For your referenece.
