Title: Relational database website
Last modified: August 21, 2016

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# Relational database website

 *  [klonoa](https://wordpress.org/support/users/klonoa/)
 * (@klonoa)
 * [13 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/relational-database-website/)
 * Hi. I am an experienced web developer and right now I have a client who requires
   a somewhat complicated site to be made with WordPress, which I have not used 
   before. I understand how I would build this site from scratch, but I need some
   help getting started with it in WordPress.
 * This project is basically a database site. I need to keep track of three tables
   of data — as well as their relations. As an example, the three tables could be:
   
   1, Cars 2, Colours 3, Drivers
 * Then in a relations table, each category would have it’s own field/column which
   is used to show which entries are related to each other. For example, an entry
   might be:
    Car: Maserati, Colour: Green, Driver: Pierre
 * Then on the site, if I open the Maserati page a side panel would display links
   for Green and Pierre (as well as any other Drivers and Colours which were associated
   with this Car).
 * How would I build this type of functionality in WordPress? Are there plugins?
   I am open to any suggestions which would achieve this functionality.
 * Thanks in advance! 🙂

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 *  [esmi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/esmi/)
 * (@esmi)
 * [13 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/relational-database-website/#post-3738514)
 * What about using [custom fields](http://codex.wordpress.org/Custom_Fields)?
 *  Thread Starter [klonoa](https://wordpress.org/support/users/klonoa/)
 * (@klonoa)
 * [13 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/relational-database-website/#post-3738586)
 * Thanks!
 * I understand that this plugin would be good for displaying such extra information.
   However, the ‘extra information’ I need to display is strictly links to other
   posts from different categories.
 * In this case, the data I want to include would _not_ be a part of the Mazerati
   post, it would strictly be that the the ‘Pierre post’ is associated with the ‘
   Mazerati post’. Then on the Pierre post, I would like to list Mazerati (and, 
   for example, Honda and Porsche if he was associated with those cars as well).
 * Can I accomplish such functionality with this plugin?
 * I am open to achieving the functionality in different ways, but I basically need
   to associate posts with different posts from different categories.
 * I don’t think this should be too complicated, but I am not sure how to do it 
   within WordPress.
 *  Thread Starter [klonoa](https://wordpress.org/support/users/klonoa/)
 * (@klonoa)
 * [13 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/relational-database-website/#post-3738642)
 * I have not had any success figuring this out yet, so I am wondering if perhaps
   it’s simply not possible or realistic to deliver this kind of site with WordPress.
 * If there are experienced users who read this and think that’s indeed the case,
   I would appreciate hearing that I am barking up the wrong tree too! 🙂
 * Thanks in any case!
 *  [twobyte](https://wordpress.org/support/users/twobyte/)
 * (@twobyte)
 * [12 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/relational-database-website/#post-3738840)
 * This plugin might be able to help:
    [http://wordpress.org/plugins/types/](http://wordpress.org/plugins/types/)
 * BUILD RELATIONAL SITES
    Types lets you define parent / child relationship between
   different post types. You’ll easily setup one-to-many and many-to-many relationships
   and build powerful sites.

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## Tags

 * [database](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/database/)
 * [relational database](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/relational-database/)
 * [relations](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/relations/)

 * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
 * 4 replies
 * 3 participants
 * Last reply from: [twobyte](https://wordpress.org/support/users/twobyte/)
 * Last activity: [12 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/relational-database-website/#post-3738840)
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