GeneratePress Theme Customization | Build A Custom Listing Website

[@ElementoryMyDearWatson]

I can't in all honesty, for the life of me imagine how anyone, without this kind of tutorial would ever be able to figure all this out on their own. Outstanding Paul. Many thanks for all your hard work on this and generosity.

[@WPTuts]

Great to hear that this type of content has been helpful. :)

[@humaagacademy2878]

@@WPTuts Hi mate can you please do a tutorial of how to make a international student recruitment agency website thanks 👍

[@servemark]

A tip for WPtuts (or any online) instructor: if you scale your screen down for recording to smaller dimensions, elements on the page would appear much easier to see. When a large pro monitor is recorded and scaled down to KZbin screen shrinks elements, specially if one wants to take notes on part of their screen.

[@elofrandesarrolladorweb]

Probably the best tutorial on GeneratePress, GenerateBlocks and ACF. Although I wish you had used more fields to practice more ACF functions. I still mess around a bit with the styles of the blocks.

[@WPTuts]

I’ll be doing more tutorials with this combination and go into more detail in the future. 😉

[@elofrandesarrolladorweb]

@@WPTuts Thank you very much teacher, I will be attentive...

[@morizanova]

Thanks for this video. Lots of great information which I dont pickup before seeing this video. Thanks again Paul !

[@ErinHewett]

Thanks!

[@michellammerse6470]

Hi Paul again a very well explained lesson, thanks! Would it be possible to show in a future tutorial how to couple data to a map view & map search (google maps)

[@RobertHeaney]

Amazing video, thank you! I'm struggling with trying to envision how all of this could be used in a similar setup but with WooCommerce installed.

[@martijns.7029]

Great extensive video! Thanks Paul!

[@WPBLOCKBUSTERS-rg3dz]

Great TUT! Thank you

[@dmathiasen]

Nice tutorial, with really good information. I needed that for my next project. Also because I think that GeneratePress have some good things going on.

[@Ns11CV]

I am Indian this video very helpful

[@LucaSpinello]

This video is so helpful! Thank you

[@kevinmccourt3077]

Excellent tutorial

[@carloscortesacademy]

Honestly, this is one of the best videos I've seen on Wordpress, Generatepress and ACF, spectacular. I would like to know if it is possible to connect a video as Entry Goal because I have tried it by different means and it does not do it correctly, it does not bring the video.

[@xinwenyang4198]

great tutorial! at the meantime, would you please create a tutorial to create a woocommerce site using generatepress and generateblocks? I have been struggling with this problem for a long time, the default woocommerce pages are not good at all. And in the block generatepress elements, i cannot use data from products, because there is no post meta of product data choice.

[@ahmedd.masoud6809]

Amazing 🤩,. Thanks a million Paul,

[@reikiworldnews8915]

Great tutorial. I have a vague memory of WPTuts presenting a tutorial using Jade Summer Coloring Books as an example. Could anyone point me to that specific tutorial? Thanks

[@doramsa]

Came across your channel - really amazing and useful! One question - When having an external database to build pages (In this example - watch hotel information is taken from this database), can I use this data as input to the custom fields and the loop query? Or does it work with internal WP content only?

[@digitify874]

Hey Paul, thanks for creating this amazing tutorial. I have a question: How to label the URL like "Visit". How don't want to show the full url.

[@Dan11111-p]

Literally creating a website about accommodations with GeneratePress

[@KetutAryadana]

Great tutorial as always! Is it possible to use piotnet grid instead of GridBuilder? What do you think Paul?

[@WPTuts]

Probably, but I've never used Piotnet Grid to be able to say whether it would be a good alternative I'm afraid.

[@IvanOung]

Hi Paul, thank you so much for this great tutorial! What a lifesaver! Just one question about "Field group fields" vs "Taxonomy". When do you use just Field group fields, and when do you create a Taxonomy? How do you decide which one to use when you are setting up meta fields? Thank you in advance 🙏🙏🙏

[@WPTuts]

The million dollar question. I tend to look at the data structure and what makes the most sense for structure, grouping and filtering. Then, take those elements and make those taxonomies.

[@URandomGuy]

Hello Paul 👋. It would have been interesting if this Listing Website had been multi-user. Anyone could make a listing from the front end.

[@amarvillar1]

Nice video, Paul. I am about to build a website like this. I have a few questions. 1. Why did you have to use 2 different templates for the accommodations page? 2. Can I use relationship and repeater custom fields with Generate Press and Generate Blocks? (assuming that I'm using ACF Pro.) 3. Also, when creating the hero, why didn't you use REMs for the title instead of EMs? I appreciate any help you can provide.

[@WPTuts]

1. Because I have 2 different types of facets/filters - one for each. I could have hooked the filters into the same template, but would have ended up with 3 templates to manage over 2. 2. You can, but they are not natively supported by GB, so would require using ACF code to implement. 3. No real reason. I wasn't really focusing on the design techniques so much. REM's would have been a better solution for sure. :) I hope that helps. :)

[@stevebaker2896]

As someone who is currently building a complex custom listing website, and started out with Generate Press/Blocks, my advice would be go with Bricks instead - it's way more capable with dynamic data. Generate covered about 65% of what I needed. I had to add GreenShift (for dynamic sliders and galleries) and custom BlockStudio blocks to get the rest working - which worked... but was very complex and would be a pain to maintain in the long run. Bricks covers 95% of what I needed out of the box. Regarding your question 2 for example - want to do something like dynamically populate an accordion FAQ from an ACF repeater field? Generate can't do that, Bricks can. For anything that Bricks can't do natively, it offers a code element so you can drop in whatever you need, wherever you need it. Generate is great for simpler sites, but for complex builds, you'll quickly run into limitations imo.

[@amarvillar1]

@@WPTuts Thank you very much!

[@WPTuts]

@@amarvillar1 it's not all that steep to be honest and there are a lot of great tutorials out ther covering it. I have a collection of tutorials, including a recent one on building a filterable listing (similar to this tutorial) over on learnbricksbuilder.com/ :)

[@stevebaker2896]

@@amarvillar1 Bricks has an excellent intuitive UI considering how deep it can go. Like with any tool, it depends if you already know what you want to achieve with it or not - by that I mean are you learning css and general web design at the same time as learning Bricks? If so there's certainly a learning curve. But if you already know css and how to build sites then you'll get up and running with Bricks very quickly. I found it way faster to work with than Generate because with Bricks you work with everything in one place rather than build lots of different elements separately and then 'inject' them where you want them. I'd say Bricks is easier to learn than Generate press/Blocks (and Gutenberg generally) - and that's before you even get into figuring out all the workarounds you need to do with the latter to get where you want to go.

[@1anchit]

Accomodation types could also be a field with checkbox. Why did you make it a separate category? Is there any advantage to have fields or to have categories? I believe fields are also filterable like categories.

[@WPTuts]

I prefer the use of dedicated taxonomies for handling the organisation of primary content. It’s a more elegant solution in my opinion.

[@ohia5654]

Thanks so much for this tutorial! I have a question about the Admin Menu Parent field that I cant seem to find online anywhere. What do we put in that field? I have tried...but the child just disappears. edit.php?post_type={"Post Type Key"} and just the "Post Type Key" itself

[@sam-bartlett]

How much of the styling can now be completed with the WP block editor?

[@PicSta]

First!

[@anthonygrasso6593]

I'm wonderind about GridBuilder WP. Is there any way to do a grid with generate press builder without using that? I'm looking to find a free alternative of that plugin

[@greecejoy]

Hi Paul. Total newbie here, most of what I learned so far about wordpress and gp is from one video of yours. I am building a site and envision it becoming complex in the future. Should I study your video now or months later, after my site has a few posts in it? Is it overkill to learn all this stuff about acf etc now? Or now is the best time to learn, before I really start filling it with content? Of course I subscribed;-)

[@WPTuts]

Learn all you can now and that will help you plan for the future knowing how the tools work and any limitations that may affect your future plans.

[@amenajari.interioare]

can you do this for bricks builder as well Paul? a listing website from start to finish?

[@WPTuts]

I will be doing some more Bricks tutorials. But, check out my recent video on Bricks as it cover a lot of the same features.

[@andyk132]

Hi Paul. hope this reaches you. Love your tutorials. Whats the best way (maybe you can direct me to your best video) to create a wordpress auto classsified website that gives me the most flexibility? Thanks for all your tutorials.

[@ravindug]

This is amazing

[@WPTuts]

Thank you :)

[@HaifengZhu-pn3uq]

Does GeneratePress have built-in Cookie Consent fuction?

[@WPTuts]

No, it doesn’t. But, I’d prefer to use a dedicated privacy service to keep up to date with international privacy laws. 👍

[@justindoyle]

would this setup be faster than Elementor + Crocoblock?

[@WPTuts]

I would say so, yes. How much is debatable depending upon the amount of data you’re using.

[@justindoyle]

@@WPTuts thanks Paul!

[@WPTuts]

@@justindoyle my pleasure. :)

[@jigarjoshi4817]

Hello sir Make video on generatepress theme customization for an entertainment website

[@ib4112]

Are you moving away from Elementor?

[@WPTuts]

I moved away from Elementor for personal and client work about a year ago. I still create content on it as the channel is well known for it, but I'm finding I prefer to work in GeneratePress & GenerateBlocks right now.

[@samwillun]

To be honest, generatepress is the most powerful theme, but if we want to build a pretty nice and animation effect website, using this theme too difficult to me🥲