Title: Associate Custom Post Types
Last modified: August 21, 2016

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# Associate Custom Post Types

 *  [bcmann](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bcmann/)
 * (@bcmann)
 * [12 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/associate-custom-post-types/)
 * I am building a website for a magazine and they want me to develop a plug-in 
   that will manage their advertisers. We’ve looked at some of the existing plug-
   ins, but nothing fits exactly right.
 * They want to be able to create an advertiser in the admin section, then be able
   to add ads from their magazine to that advertiser so they can be displayed on
   the front end. When a visitor to the website clicks on the image of the ad, they
   will be taken to the advertiser’s website. My client also wants to track how 
   many clicks each of their advertisers get.
 * I was thinking of creating a custom post type for the advertisers and another
   custom post type for the ads. Then when creating the ads, I could have a field
   to select the advertiser from the list of advertisers from the advertisers post
   type.
 * I think this will work, but it would be much more elegant to have it all contained
   in one menu item in the admin section. So my question is, is there a way to associate
   custom post types, so that I could have a single post-type in the admin menu 
   then have related post-types within that post-type for the ads.
 * I’m not sure if my question is completely clear. Hopefully it is. If not, please
   ask and I can try to clear up any questions.
 * Thanks for any help. I really appreciate it.
    Brian
 * P.S. I’ll admit that I’ve only looked at a few plug-ins, so if there’s a good
   plug-in that’s already available, I’ll definitely consider that.

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