[Resolved] Best way to handle a series of books

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[davidF-23]

My site has a custom post type 'books' that has custom fields for author, publish date, etc. I'm using taxonomies for 'genre' like mystery, comedy, etc.

I don't know the best way to handle a 'series' of books. For example, a book can be a single book or it can be part of a series of books.

Right now, I have 'series' as a hierarchical taxonomy like:

- Series X
-- Series x book 1
-- Series x book 2
etc.

This works ok, but thinking down the road when I've entered in hundreds of different series, that list where I select the series taxonomy is going to get really long.

(This isn't mine, but same idea hidden link That page shows an author and down below are different series he has written)

My question is how to best handle this? Thanks!

[Minesh]

Hello. Thank you for contacting the Toolset support.

If you setup series as custom field, you can add a custom field filter for your series custom field:
- https://toolset.com/course-lesson/creating-a-custom-search/

I strongly suggest We offer a free test platform http://www.discover-wp.com where you can create a test site using any of our reference site we offer:
- https://discover-wp.com/site-templates/

I strongly suggest you test with both as taxonomy and custom field and then you decide with what entity you want to go with.

[davidF-23]

My issue is resolved now. Thank you!