Title: Adding Child Users to Parent Users
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# Adding Child Users to Parent Users

 *  [jkappers](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jkappers/)
 * (@jkappers)
 * [16 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/adding-child-users-to-parent-users/)
 * I’m hoping someone might help me brainstorm and solve this issue, or point me
   in the direction of some articles that can help me achieve this:
 * Once users are registered to this site, I want them to be able to add their pets
   to their account. The pets need to have profiles, avatars, etc, but I’m not sure
   how to go about associating pets to site users with WordPress.
 * The best idea I’ve had so far is to add pets as users (auto-generated unique 
   username/pw), put them in a custom role, and give them a meta key that contains
   the pet owner’s user id. That way, I can use all the user queries like I normally
   would and would have a field mapping that pet to the owner.
 * This feels like a hack, but I’m not sure that there is a better way to go about
   it. Any ideas?

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 * Last activity: [16 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/adding-child-users-to-parent-users/)
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