Advice on dynamic template?

[larryk]

hello,
hoping you can point me in the right direction

1. I want to use X or Pro
2. I know MySQL and PHP well.
3. I don’t want to reinvent the wheel, so using someone’s plugin is desirable !!!
4. It seems like various plugins provided by themeco can do the job already, BUT this last point is the unknown to me… which my goal is this:

I need a way to display data from a non WP table in a WP page that is customized. Meaning, my MySQL table data needs to display based on:
a) my own layout (a custom template?) the plugin should handle the various types of content.
b) be nice looking and responsive (the plugin handles the CSS - I can’t write CSS good enough to do that)
c) the page uses URL parameters to populate the page data/content.
d) I do not want to import data into a WP table.

NOTE: Let’s pretend I’m using Cornerstone to build a page. If I used short codes (php short codes that print out text), I loose the functionality provided by the element. Is there a way around that?

also, as example, using The Grid, it can’t pull images dynamically

so any thoughts/feedback/ideas on how I can accomplish my goal?

ps. http://wpdatatables.com/ is a plugin that does all that I need, except the ‘custom display’… So I need a way to display my table data on a custom layout page. Surely this is a way with X?

thanks for your help!

[christian]

Hey Larry,

Regretfully, what you intend to do is not possible. Cornerstone could not read data from the URL and the builders data is stored in a the post_meta table which is a WP table.

Thanks.