How do I do this with WordPress? Taxonomies?

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I was hoping to get some help with how I organise posts in WordPress.

I have 2 Custom Post Types called ‘Places’ and ‘Events’.

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In the Admin, I’d like to be able to create a ‘Place’ post and associate multiple ‘Events’ posts to this.
So perhaps inside an ‘Event’ post, I can select a ‘Place’ post from a list to associate that ‘Event’ with that ‘Place’.

Can someone explain how I would achieve this?

Would I have to look at Taxonomies?

 

Many thanks for any advice.

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  1. Three methods:

    1. Don’t use taxonomies at all, just store the ID of the associated posts as post meta
    2. Create a taxonomy, and remove the ability to edit/delete/create terms. Then use automation to catch the hooks for the creation, editing, and deletion of Place posts, and create/edit/delete the associated terms in the taxonomy.
    3. Use the Posts2posts plugin by Scribu, though this would require learning a new API and adding an additional plugin dependency

    If your relational mapping is a 1 place can have many events, but one event can only have one place, then a fourth option becomes available:

    • Set the parent post of an event to its place