I have a lot of custom type items in my new WP project, and for navigation reasons, I want to make the parent to some of them a WordPress page. The problem is that apparently, WordPress does not let you establish parent-child relationships between items with different post type.
Is there anyway to override this? I am using WordPress 3.1
There are way’s to get around it to create this kind of grouping or relationship:
- “manually” – set the post_parent
field to the parent ID (by manually
i mean code something that will do
that for you when you publish a
CPT).
- Using a shared custom taxonomy to
create a grouping of posts and you
will have the ability to filter /
query posts based on that taxonomy
term.
- using a post meta field (custom field) on your custom post type that will hold the parent page id and once again have the ability to to filter /
query posts based on that custom field
- using a plugin like Posts 2 Posts which uses a db table to create a many to many relation between posts and adds some cool query features.
depends on your needs but i think at least one of these should do the job.