Has anyone had their own custom CTA/Listing/Brand Management plugin made?

[MJM]

I'm just curious if anyone out there has had a custom plugin developed to manage tables, cta's, and brand listings (and bonus data).

We have relied on tools like Flytonic/Poka for years and they are undeveloped, almost never improved, and just don't seem to have enough client base to keep developers interested in making a great product.

I think I'd like to have my own developed - but this would be completely new territory for me. I'm hoping someone out there may have gone through this, and might have some suggestions on the challenges - especially related to keeping your own developed plugin current/updated from a maintenance standpoint (like when WP 5.5 broke a lot of plugins).

Anyone successfully (or not) done this? I'd also be more than willing to share costs on something like this if there is someone like minded out there.

[baldidiot]

Advanced custom fields is your friend here: https://www.advancedcustomfields.com/

Combine it with a bit of php and some custom post types (although can be done without CPTs) and you can pretty much do whatever you want.

That's much better than a fixed plug in anyway as you can completely customise it to do what you want to do...

It's a very commonly used plug in so I'd imagine most WP devs would be familiar with it if you need someone to do the php side of it.

[MJM]

Advanced custom fields is your friend here: https://www.advancedcustomfields.com/

Combine it with a bit of php and some custom post types (although can be done without CPTs) and you can pretty much do whatever you want.

That's much better than a fixed plug in anyway as you can completely customise it to do what you want to do...

It's a very commonly used plug in so I'd imagine most WP devs would be familiar with it if you need someone to do the php side of it.

Good suggestion, I know Flytonic is built on ACFPro as well, and I've been meaning to look into ACF for a long time anyways - just need to find the time.

Have you (or anyone else reading this) used ACF to do anything along these lines before?

[universal4]

Poka is actually built with ACF as part of it so turning that on is not a difficult thing.

Rick
Universal3

[wonderpunter]

I had something custom years ago it was a lot of work, always problems, manual updating etc .. was not worth the hassle for me.

[baldidiot]

Good suggestion, I know Flytonic is built on ACFPro as well, and I've been meaning to look into ACF for a long time anyways - just need to find the time.

Have you (or anyone else reading this) used ACF to do anything along these lines before?

Yeah, pretty much all our WP sites use it to control bonuses and brands etc..

Tbh I wouldn’t use an affiliate plug in as it would be too rigid (ie: can only do what they’ve set it up to do).

[casinoFM]

We also use https://www.advancedcustomfields.com/ . Works for us. ATM for instance we have to amend a lot due to the new (`?) mga requirements, but the work load is ok, and the result satisfying.