Custom WordPress powered educational resource platform

Brief

Build a WordPress based educational resource platform powered by custom post types, taxonomies, and Advanced Custom Fields. Also lock subscription content behind a login/portal. This particular example of such work was for The Learning Curve, and educational resource platform.

Context

On top of the WooCommerce work I completed in 2018, I was also hired for a lot of custom WordPress theme projects.

Many of these required custom post types and taxonomies to fulfil certain requirements. In this project, we needed CPTs and ACFs to store different types of portal content that could be searched and filtered based on dates, post meta, and taxonomy terms.

Solution

I opted to use as much of WordPress core as possible (like always), which meant relying on custom post types and taxonomies. ACFs were used for easier editing and work with post meta data.

All the data could then easily be read in the front-end using wp_query and wp_tax_query for simple filtering of content by date, taxonomy terms and post types.