Case study – building a directory with custom fields

Custom fields might be used for every type of content, from a news website to a recipe collection website, as well as to build an online directory of contacts or businesses. In this case study, we will consider the following scenario: build a directory of professors for a university website. It’s very common for universities to provide an address book for their professors, along with a page for each of them that contains a picture, contact data, studio address, and other useful information.

Planning the structure

To build the directory, we will need a category for the articles that we will call Professors, a group of fields called Professors, and several custom fields:

Table 3.2 – The custom fields for Professors

All the custom fields listed in Table 3.2 should be tied to the Professors category and belong to the Professors field group.

Each article should have the name...