About This Plugin
Inventory Manager Lite is the lightweight, read-only sibling to Equipment Inventory Manager. It exposes the existing inventory custom post type as a WordPress List Table with search, filters, and pagination — no editing, no schema changes, no risk of accidentally modifying production data.
Use it when staff need to look up equipment but should not be able to change anything. Pair it with the full Equipment Inventory Manager plugin when full management is needed — the two share the same CPT and meta fields.
Features
- Spreadsheet-style view of all
inventoryrecords - Search across stock number, model, and serial number
- Filter by location (Caledonia / Niagara) and year
- Smart parsing of array-based year fields and shortcode-based location fields (handles legacy Flavor theme storage)
- Configurable rows-per-page
- Sortable columns
- Read-only by design — the plugin does not register the CPT, does not modify any data, and has no edit screens
What This Plugin Does NOT Do
- Does not create the
inventoryCPT — that has to come from the parent theme or from Equipment Inventory Manager. - Does not edit, add, or delete inventory records.
- Does not run physical-count workflows. Use Equipment Inventory Manager for that.
Full Changelog
1.0.0 — Stable release. Author updated to Doorways Into Your Business.
0.8 — Available Location now displays correctly (extracts “Niagara” or “Caledonia” from shortcode format); Year field now displays correctly (extracts value from array format).
About Doorways Into Your Business
Doorways Into Your Business (DIYB) is a digital agency based in Kingsville, Ontario, Canada. We help small businesses and non-profit organizations build and grow their digital presence through WordPress development, custom plugin solutions, API integrations, and business automation.
We specialize in practical, purpose-built tools — like this one — that solve real operational problems for the organizations we work with.
- Website: diyb.ca
- Email: paul@diyb.ca
Support
For support or feature requests, contact Paul Hughes at paul@madeitin.ca or visit diyb.ca.
Questions, or ready to open a few smart digital doorways? Get in touch with Doorways Into Your Business →