Title: Custom Posts Subtypes
Last modified: August 31, 2016

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# Custom Posts Subtypes

 *  [peaky76](https://wordpress.org/support/users/peaky76/)
 * (@peaky76)
 * [10 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/custom-posts-subtypes/)
 * Hi, I am setting up a review website. I’ve created my own custom post type “reviews”
   but I want different sub-types of review, e.g. films, books, cds. They’ll all
   share some metaboxes, e.g. rating, but each will have their own specific metaboxes,
   e.g. record label for CDs, director/running time/country for films. Is some sort
   of hierarchical structure the best way to implement this and if so, how can I
   get that to work? Or is it easier just to have a flat structure of custom posts–
   film reviews, book reviews, cd reviews?

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 *  [TrishaM](https://wordpress.org/support/users/trisham/)
 * (@trisham)
 * [9 years, 12 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/custom-posts-subtypes/#post-7371080)
 * I think you can do what you want using Advanced Custom Fields plugin – it has
   a lot of options for showing various metaboxes on various posts & pages.
 * So assuming that you structure your Reviews as Pages (heirarchically) and you
   have “Book Reviews” as a parent CPT, with all your various book review posts 
   as child-pages of that one, likewise for “film reviews” (as a parent page with
   all film reviews being child pages)….
 * Then when you install ACF, you setup what metaboxes you want for each type, and
   tell it to show on post type = reviews and parent page = book reviews, etc.
 * Any metaboxes they share you can setup as a separate field group and just use
   show on post type = reviews – then they will show on all of your sub pages.
 *  Thread Starter [peaky76](https://wordpress.org/support/users/peaky76/)
 * (@peaky76)
 * [9 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/custom-posts-subtypes/#post-7371108)
 * Thanks Trisha. I think that’s one plugin I haven’t looked at yet. I’ll take a
   look!

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 * Last activity: [9 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/custom-posts-subtypes/#post-7371108)
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