Title: Basic directory
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# Basic directory

 *  [lucassoares](https://wordpress.org/support/users/lucassoares/)
 * (@lucassoares)
 * [11 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/basic-directory/)
 * Hi guys,
 * This is Lucas. I was wondering if you guys could give me some guidance for an
   upcoming project of mine. Basically it’s a blog featuring creative work and portfolios,
   and I want to include a directory page with the best designers/creatives that
   were featured on the blog. Something similar to [http://visualcache.com/features/by/](http://visualcache.com/features/by/)
 * My question is what’s the best way to build something like that? Considering 
   I want to manually add designers to the listing (because I don’t want *every*
   creative featured on the blog to be automatically included on the directory listing.
 * I’m thinking that the “Directory” would be a custom post type?! So each post 
   would be a designer, under a specialty (categories, so people can search by specialties)
   and a few custom fields (for contact info, location etc). Is my thinking correct
   here?
 * The main question is how exactly do I link every designer to a page including
   blog posts on which the designer were featured? Like in the example above, when
   you click on a designer, it takes you to a page where you can find blog posts
   that they were featured. What would be the best way to accomplish this?
 * I’m sorry if I’m not being clear enough, english is not my native language… I’ll
   try to explain better if you need to. 😉

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 *  [webbrewers](https://wordpress.org/support/users/webbrewers/)
 * (@webbrewers)
 * [11 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/basic-directory/#post-5198605)
 * Sounds like a job for tags to me. Make the creative examples posts, and tag them
   with the designer. Your directory would then be a rendition of the tags list.
 *  Thread Starter [lucassoares](https://wordpress.org/support/users/lucassoares/)
 * (@lucassoares)
 * [11 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/basic-directory/#post-5198617)
 * Hi webbrewers, thanks for the reply!
 * But how would I categorize each designer/category by specialty and location so
   people can filter designers on the directory page?
 *  [webbrewers](https://wordpress.org/support/users/webbrewers/)
 * (@webbrewers)
 * [11 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/basic-directory/#post-5198639)
 * You could also use tags to fine tune the filtering by specialty/location or assign
   posts to categories for that. You’d have to play with it to get the best structure.
 *  Thread Starter [lucassoares](https://wordpress.org/support/users/lucassoares/)
 * (@lucassoares)
 * [11 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/basic-directory/#post-5198642)
 * I just found a plugin to extend custom taxonomies with custom fields… I guess
   it’s a good option…
 * I’d extend the custom taxonomy “designer” with custom field types, a category
   or tag field for “location” and a category or tag field for “specialty”
 * I guess it would be more intuitive and easier to code?

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