Title: Using multiple relationships
Last modified: August 21, 2016

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# Using multiple relationships

 *  Resolved [Grant Palin](https://wordpress.org/support/users/grantpalin/)
 * (@grantpalin)
 * [12 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/using-multiple-relationships/)
 * I’m using Pods on a site to power multiple custom types. These are each pretty
   straightforward, with some custom fields here and there and custom URL structures.
   I’d like to implement content relationships to manually curate related content.
   The content types currently in the picture are:
 * post
    topic (from bbPress) (own custom types below) case note question therapy_guideline
 * Ideally, instances of each of these content types can be related to instances
   of the same type, as well as to instances of the other types. The relationships
   should be bidirectional. And allow for one content instance to relate to multiple
   other content instances – potential many-to-many relationship in database parlance.
 * I’ve experimented with this on a small scale, from one of the types going to 
   the others as well as to itself again. However, when I tried to push that all
   the way, that is, to relate each content type to itself and to the others, Pods
   had problems with the setup.
 * My question is, is the current version of Pods suited to such a relationship 
   setup? I am aware that improvements are coming in the next major version, but
   that seems to be a ways away still, and I’d ideally like to achieve this functionality
   without having to introduce another plugin if possible.
 * [https://wordpress.org/plugins/pods/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/pods/)

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 *  [maiki](https://wordpress.org/support/users/maiki/)
 * (@maiki)
 * [12 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/using-multiple-relationships/#post-4750796)
 * What was the problem Pods had? I’ve done a similar setup with no issues.
 *  Plugin Contributor [Josh Pollock](https://wordpress.org/support/users/shelob9/)
 * (@shelob9)
 * [12 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/using-multiple-relationships/#post-4750799)
 * I also have no issue with bi-directional relationships between two fields in 
   the same Pod. Can you please elaborate on what you mean by “Pods had problems
   with the setup.” Are you getting an error of any kind?
 *  Thread Starter [Grant Palin](https://wordpress.org/support/users/grantpalin/)
 * (@grantpalin)
 * [12 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/using-multiple-relationships/#post-4750802)
 * To be honest, it was some months ago that I had tried it previously, so I can’t
   recall the details. However, it was setting up 2-way relations between all the
   types listed above – quite a web of connections. Getting near the end of setting
   them all up, WordPress balked badly, which at the time I assumed was something
   to do with all those connections, since that was the only change I had made.
 * I’ve recently given this setup another try, and it’s actually working well – 
   far better than it did previously. Two-way connections, multiple selects, no 
   trouble establishing or displaying the relationships. The issue I had previously
   might have been an issue with the then-current version of WP or Pods, or perhaps
   in how I did it. Doesn’t appear to be any problem now. Just though I’d inquire
   as to whether there were limitations in how many bidirectional connections could
   be used.
 *  Plugin Contributor [Josh Pollock](https://wordpress.org/support/users/shelob9/)
 * (@shelob9)
 * [12 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/using-multiple-relationships/#post-4750803)
 * Grant-
 * I’m glad to hear that this worked out. There are no theoretically limits to how
   many relationships can be used. There are practical limits imposed by the demands
   that each level of complexity puts on your server. What those limits are depends
   on your server and how aggressive you are with cacheing.
 * Take care,
    Josh

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 * Last activity: [12 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/using-multiple-relationships/#post-4750803)
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