I am new to wordpress and don't really understand how it works as I always thought it was a blogging platform and I am only now exploring what it can do.
I want to know if I can attach an external database to my wordpress site. I think this is possible with e-commerce databases but I have a custom database for example containing the details of 10,000 footballers and I want this to be part of my wordpress site with each footballer getting their own page.
I used to think you had to enter every wordpress page individually.
Is it possible or correct procedure to attach or include or incorporate an external database to a wordpress site?
Is this done by writing to a wordpress table and so transferring the external database into wordpress page tables?
I hope this is a simple question with a simple answer but as it is I don't understand how this works.
Thank you in advance