Create relationship between parent posts

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Problem: I have two post types in a parent / child post relationship. I would like to relate a parent post to another parent post, but I am unable to use post relationships or post reference fields in the same post type. How can I link these parent posts?

Solution: The simplest way is to create a custom taxonomy, and apply the same taxonomy terms to related parent posts.

Relevant Documentation: https://toolset.com/documentation/user-guides/create-custom-taxonomies/

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Last updated by laneV 5 years, 8 months ago.

Assisted by: Christian Cox.

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August 15, 2018 at 8:27 pm #1084045

laneV

I have parent posts, each with a few child posts. That works well. Each of my parent pages is for a single location. There can be instances where one person/company own more than one location. I'd like to be able to show on each of those associated locations (ie parent posts) that there is a relationship to the other locations. Does this make sense? In other words, if I have a directory of restaurants and each restaurant is a parent post, and someone owns 3 restaurants I'd like to be able to list on each of those 3 parent posts they are related to the others by person/company owning them. I can't create a toolset relationship between the parent posts and I can't add post references within the same post type. How can I accomplish this?

August 15, 2018 at 9:06 pm #1084069

Christian Cox

Hi, a simple way to do this is to use a custom taxonomy. Create a custom taxonomy called "Owners" and associate that custom taxonomy with these post types. Add a term that represents each Owner. Then assign that taxonomy term to all the restaurants or locations owned by the same owner. On the single post template, you can add a View of the same post type filtered by the owner taxonomy, where the term is set by the current page. This will give you a list of locations owned by the same owner.

August 17, 2018 at 2:50 pm #1085782

laneV

Thank you Christian! That worked perfectly!

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