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Extensions, themes or templates for making catalog-page

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Douse's avatar
Douse
2 posts
8 years ago
Douse's avatar Douse

There are any additional stuff ( addons, themes, templates, extensions or modules) that can be used with ExpressionEngine to build a useful and nice page-catalog with similar structure to this one https://zoptamo.com/s-sprint-c-us? It is standard catalog page with sorted and categorized data and every database entry have it’s own subpage. Any recommendations on things that can help with such a site?

       
Rob Allen's avatar
Rob Allen
2,950 posts
8 years ago
Rob Allen's avatar Rob Allen

Welcome to the forums

You can build a pretty comprehensive catalogue in EE without any additional addons. Then, if you need special functionality some addons may help - it really depends exactly what you’re trying to achieve.

To create a basic catalogue you’d need:

  1. A Channel to hold catalogue entries

- maybe some categories so you can filter by type - maybe some Relationship fields so you can associate entries with other entries (i.e. when you’re looking at a detail page show similar items)

  1. A template group to show the catalogue entries Typically you’d create a template group called something like “products”, that would give you a URL like example.com/products, though you could use any suitable name.

Inside the template group you’d have a index template to display the landing page and category views, and finally a “single entry” template to show a single item - this single entry template can be named anything you like, often I use “detail” which would give me a URL like example.com/products/detail/my-fantastic-thing

What sort of features are you planning?

       
Douse's avatar
Douse
2 posts
8 years ago
Douse's avatar Douse

Sorry for late reply and thanks for advices :D Features to add are pretty simple: -search system with pref panel and filters, to make searching particular place or people easier -users registration system to connect community (maybe adding forum to it later) -of course system of catalogued places and people (which is the elementary part of site)

and some more smaller things bat these three are the basis 😊

       

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