Use Post Reference Field to connect Posts with other Posts

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Last updated by Shane 4 years, 9 months ago.

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March 30, 2020 at 12:49 pm #1568115

David

Hi there,
I would like to be able to connect Posts with other Posts of the same post type to make a custom related posts view. In this case I am using the default post type "Posts".

The Post Reference Field would appear to be a good tool for doing this, but it looks like I cannot connect posts of the same type. Is that right? When I go to set up the Post Reference custom field, I have set the field to appear on Posts, but then I can't select "Posts" for the Post Reference field - it's greyed out - non-selectable.

Is there a good reason for this; can it be overridden?

My aim is to be able to go to edit a post, assign a number of related posts and then produce a view to display them with the main post. Is there some way to do this if not with the Post Reference Field.

March 30, 2020 at 6:31 pm #1568495

Shane

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Hi David,

Thank you for getting in touch.

Unfortunately this won't be possible as you can only relate posts that are in different post types using the Post Reference field.

Secondly you can do a Parent/Child type relationship similar to the Pages post type but you will need to use a Custom post type to do this since it won't be possible to do with the default wordpress post type.

With this type of relationship you are able to relate posts on the same post type with each other.

Please let me know if this helps.
Thanks,
Shane