Custom page using custom db

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  lloydie2013 · Member · Aug 5, 2014 at 9:20 am

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  I am try understand what is the correct way to work inside wp to provide the following. we have a chosen a theme we like which works great, but we wish to extend it a a bit so that we can access information in a custom DB to be displayed in a custom page based on the theme.

  For instance the url example.com/person/123 would show a page which displays the details of person with id = 123 from our custom db or
  example.com/people/john would list people with a name like john.
  I am not looking for a tutorial, just the best way to achieve this as I am not sure using taxonomy is the right thing to do.

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  sandymcfadden · Member · Aug 5, 2014 at 9:15 pm

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  Hi lloydie2013,

  There would not be a good way to do this on a WordPress.com hosted site. Your best bet would be to have a self hosted version of WordPress from WordPress.org. This would give you the ability to create Custom Post Types and extend the functionality.

  To get support you would want to post in the WordPress.org support forums at http://wordpress.org/support/

  They should be able to point you in the best direction.

  Hope that helps.

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  lloydie2013 · Member · Aug 5, 2014 at 10:56 pm

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  Thanks for the information and I will post further questions in .org