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1. joel@ahso
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   greetings & salutations.

   The folks i work for want me to replicate the functionality of this site in wordpress
   http://maxartcreative.com/

   my specific problem is replicating the sub-navigation found on a page like this:
   http://maxartcreative.com/portfolio.php?id=348

   Please note the sub-navigation, Portfolio, Bio, Multimedia, Red Carpet,
   if you browse the site a bit, you'll notice that not all artists have a page for each of these.
   but each artist has at least a portfolio

   I've setup custom post types for each sub-navigation menu item, Portfolio, Bio, Multimedia, Red Carpet,

   so some artists have all 4, others only have a few,
   but each custom post type has the same name for each artist,

   so for example, Megan Thompson has a custom post type Portfolio with her name as the title, and a custom post type for Bio also with her name as the title,

   what i need to do is this:
   in a custom post template, build a that sub-menu based on weather or not a custom post type with that name exists or not.

   i really hope this makes sense, i'm going mildly crazy trying to get this to work. I've browsed the forums and run this by a few go-to ppl for WP but they can't figure out what i'm trying to do.

   at this point i'm open to any other way to get this to work,
   i realize trying to setup a custom query and return results based on custom post types all with the same name is wonky but i have to USER proof / make it as easy as possible.

   I keep trying to run through what i want to do in my head,

   Within a custom post template i need to query four custom post types for a name that matches the title of the current post (which is one of those custom post types),
   then i have to see if there even is a custom post type with that name and build the sub menu with the permalink

   here's the guts of what i've been beating on. of course it's busted.
   http://wordpress.pastebin.com/7URpvu5i

   at this point i'm open to any suggestions, especially an easier way to do it.
   i do appreciate WP for what it does but i'm wholly visual and the semantics throw me.

   oh yes, and of course thx to anyone willing to help me tackle this.

2. joel@ahso
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   Hmm, well, for whatever reason i seem to be cursed with being that guy who gets to answer his own forum posts. Good times, good times.
   SO i went and got one of my instructors from Art Institute to help me out.
   He showed my how WP handles its raw DB queries,

   from that , i was able to back up and use some WP to query the DB 'properly',
   but here's the rub, once i get that query back, i need to loop thru the results and display the permalink of each returned result.

   this will make sense in a minute.

   so what i'm doing in the meantime (which makes my inner dev cringe)
   is a number of sub loops, each with a new WP_query,
   then building the menu item i need.

   So i;m still looking for a better way to do this, because there is always a better way, right? well, not when the client needs it yesterday, but for my own sanity and experience.

   if you're bored: http://wordpress.pastebin.com/PU17xeJm

   Good Luck to anyone else with this problem. If i ever streamline the thing i'll post it here.

   i can get a better WP_query with all the post_types and same name in it,
   
$thisname = $post->post_title;
$my_freakin_query = new WP_query(array('post_type' => array('portfolio','bio','multimedia','red-carpet'),'post_title' => '$thisname'));


   but am having trouble looping thru the results and displaying the permalink for each

3. 10sexyapples
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   http://scribu.net/wordpress/posts-to-posts/p2p-0-7.html - ;-)

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