My Gardening App — built on WordPress

This website is a WordPress blog with plugins added to extend functionality and create custom content. A blog is made up of Posts that display in reverse chronological order. They can be added to Categories that you create. Most blogging platforms also allow creation of Pages which are more static in nature and don’t become part of the blog.

The main plugin I’m using is to create Custom Post Types(CPT). An example would a a Planting post. With a blog post you get Title, Content, Category and Tags.

With a Planting, you get the Title, Content(planting notes), Plant Type, Date Picker for the planting date, Location, Seed qty, Lot Number, Purchase Date, Equipment Settings(seeder).

Another CPT is Field Notes which also has custom fields including a drop down to select a Planting. Another would be Plant Problems, and again, you choose the initial Planting.

As mentioned in another post, I haven’t been doing a lot of gardening yet. I do have one example of how the data gets tied together based on a Planting — Spring Tatsoi 2025

The Planting — https://farmwp.com/pollard/planting/2025-spring-tatsoi/
A Field Note — https://farmwp.com/pollard/field-note/spring-2025-tatsoi/
A Plant Problem — https://farmwp.com/pollard/plant-problem/flea-beetles/

Plant Problem is related to Tatsoi as opposed to a particular Planting but I do intend to add the ability to choose a planting when recording a plant problem.

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