WordPress Custom Post Types with a page as a parent?

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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

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  1. There are way’s to get around it to create this kind of grouping or relationship:

    1. “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).
    2. 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.
    3. 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
    4. 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.

  2. You just need to make sure the custom post type it’s hierarchical.
    So within your register_post_type function, make sure there’s an argument ‘hierarchical’ => TRUE