[Resolved] Not sure when to use CPT or CT

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[davidM-26]

I'm trying to work out what structure I should use, using TYPES

I am making a site that allows someone to find a weekly Quiz night running in Australia.

I have set up a CPT for the quiz events themselves.

But, I need the following data:

1. Day of the week

2. State in Australia it is run

3. The company/provider of the Quiz

I don't know if all the above should be custom taxonomies?

I want to be able to see

- all quzzes

- all quizzes in a state

- all quizzes in a state on a certain day

- all quizzes in a state run by a certain company

- all quzzes in Australia run by a certain company

etc.

I don't want to go through setting it up just to realise I should have done it differently.

It would be cool to use the URL in a cool way

so you go to /provider/quizmeisters and it shows you all quizzes from them
or /provider/quizmesters/sa and it shows you all quizzes from them in sa
or /location/sa and it shows all quizzes in SA
or /location/sa/monday and it shows all quizzes in SA on a Monday

Though I don't know if that's possible.

So, how would YOU set it up?

Cheers!

[Luo Yang]

Dear david,

Thanks for the details, in your case I suggest you try this:
1) create a custom post type "quizzes"
https://toolset.com/documentation/user-guides/create-a-custom-post-type/

2) create two custom taxonomies(state, company), register them to above post type "quizzes"
https://toolset.com/documentation/user-guides/create-custom-taxonomies/

3) Create a custom date field "quizzes-date" , display it in post type "quizzes"
https://toolset.com/documentation/user-guides/using-custom-fields/

Then you will be able to display the results as what you want by using Views:
a) - all quzzes
https://toolset.com/documentation/user-guides/getting-starting-with-types/
b) - all quizzes in a state
add a taxonomy filter in your view:
https://toolset.com/documentation/user-guides/filtering-views-by-taxonomy/
c) - all quizzes in a state on a certain day
add a date filter plus step b)
https://toolset.com/documentation/user-guides/date-filters/
d)- all quizzes in a state run by a certain company
You just need two taxonomy filters in your view, same as step b)
e) - all quzzes in Australia run by a certain company
same as step b)

f) so you go to /provider/quizmeisters and it shows you all quizzes from them
This is wordpress build-in feature
https://toolset.com/documentation/user-guides/create-custom-taxonomies/

g) or /provider/quizmesters/sa and it shows you all quizzes from them in sa
Sorry, it is not possible within Types

h) or /location/sa and it shows all quizzes in SA
This is wordpress build-in feature same as f)

i) or /location/sa/monday and it shows all quizzes in SA on a Monday
It is not possible within Types same as g)

Hope it help

[davidM-26]

So if I want to have a page for a quiz PROVIDER...

So if someone clicks on QuizMeisters - it goes to a page that has details about them, a link to their site etc, plus possibly a list of their events, would I still be better to use a custom taxonomy?

Or would it be better to have the providers as a custom post type, then have that as a parent to the quiz CPT

(And then, can I use that provider CPT as a filter on a search?)

[Luo Yang]

Q1) So if I want to have a page for a quiz PROVIDER...
You can use term archive page for the quiz PROVIDER, there will be

Q2) So if someone clicks on QuizMeisters - it goes to a page that has details about them, a link to their site etc, plus possibly a list of their events, would I still be better to use a custom taxonomy?
Yes, you can setup the custom taxonomy field for each PROVIDER, including site(URL field) etc,
See our document:
https://toolset.com/documentation/user-guides/term-fields/
Adding Term Fields to Taxonomies
and format the term archive page with Views wordpress archive:
https://toolset.com/documentation/user-guides/creating-wordpress-custom-post-archives/
display the Term Fields:
https://toolset.com/documentation/user-guides/displaying-wordpress-term-fields/

It would be easier to setup taxonomy filters in the Views parameter filter form.
https://toolset.com/documentation/user-guides/filtering-views-by-taxonomy/
for your reference