Title: Linking post types
Last modified: August 22, 2016

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# Linking post types

 *  [phest1993](https://wordpress.org/support/users/phest1993/)
 * (@phest1993)
 * [11 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/linking-post-types/)
 * Hi,
    I have spent hours looking for a solution for the following but to no avail.
 * As standard, WordPress currently has the Page and Posts post types, whereby a
   Page can be created, and Posts displayed on that page. I would like to duplicate
   this structure so that I can still have pages and posts, but I would like to 
   add two more post types that interact in exactly the same way. That is to say
   I would like the duplicate post type of Pages to be called ‘Stores’ and the duplicate
   post type of Posts to be called ‘Deals’.
 * So I can create a page called Store1, Store2, Store3 etc, and then add deals 
   to each of these stores. For example if I want to offer a 10% off deal at Store2
   I can go to my admin area and click Add new deal, and assign it to Store2 so 
   that it is only displayed on the Store2 page.
 * I have found several articles on how to add new post types but I can’t seem to
   find out how to get them to link to each other. Any help would be appreciated.
 * Thanks a lot

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 *  [Senff – a11n](https://wordpress.org/support/users/senff/)
 * (@senff)
 * [11 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/linking-post-types/#post-5252077)
 * Fundamentally, it is not necessarily true that a PAGE can show POSTS.
 * It’s more that a PAGE shows static info (content that probably doesn’t change
   much), and a POST can be shown on a single (site) page OR grouped with other 
   Posts.
 * For example, you can have a page in your site that shows all Posts that belong
   to a certain category, but this is not a PAGE in the sense that you create it
   in the Pages section of your WordPress site.
 * Anyhoo. That’s a bit of a long story. What you probably need is to add some plugins
   that create Custom Posts AND Custom Taxonomies.
 * With those, you can create a taxonomy (which, in essence, is a grouping method)
   called STORES, and a custom post type called DEALS.
 * Every DEAL (=post)can have one or more STORES (=category) assigned to it. So 
   a Deal called “10%” off could be in Store 1, Store 3, Store 4, etc.
 * It will be fairly easy to list all deals in a specific store — you’ll go to (
   for example) [http://mysite.com/store-1](http://mysite.com/store-1) and this 
   will just list all Deals (post) that have category “Store-1”.
 * This may sound very very complex, but once you grasp the concept of custom post
   types and custom taxonomies, I promise it will make sense.
 * Read some of these resources — though you can use a plugin like **Custom Post
   Type UI** to help you with that, so you don’t have to create custom posts/taxonomies
   manually.
 * [http://codex.wordpress.org/Taxonomies](http://codex.wordpress.org/Taxonomies)
   
   [http://www.wpbeginner.com/beginners-guide/when-do-you-need-a-custom-post-type-or-taxonomy-in-wordpress/](http://www.wpbeginner.com/beginners-guide/when-do-you-need-a-custom-post-type-or-taxonomy-in-wordpress/)
   [http://code.tutsplus.com/tutorials/a-guide-to-wordpress-custom-post-types-taxonomies-admin-columns-filters-and-archives–wp-27898](http://code.tutsplus.com/tutorials/a-guide-to-wordpress-custom-post-types-taxonomies-admin-columns-filters-and-archives–wp-27898)
 *  [sffandom](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sffandom/)
 * (@sffandom)
 * [11 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/linking-post-types/#post-5252085)
 * I would just sort the posts into categories and link to the categories’ index
   pages in the main site navigation.

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