Title: Pages and Custom post type relationships
Last modified: January 28, 2018

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# Pages and Custom post type relationships

 *  [hotdiggitydog](https://wordpress.org/support/users/hotdiggitydog/)
 * (@hotdiggitydog)
 * [8 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/development-advice/)
 * Hi,
 * I’ve been set the task of developing a section of a website that displays artists,
   each artist has many pieces of artwork which need to be displayed as a gallery
   type page. When an artwork thumbnail has been clicked it sends the user off to
   that artwork post displaying all the details, image, content, and a few other
   properties.
 * My thinking is I could create each artist as a page and have a custom post type
   called artwork, however how would I relate each artwork post to an artist?
 * Thanks
    -  This topic was modified 8 years, 3 months ago by [hotdiggitydog](https://wordpress.org/support/users/hotdiggitydog/).

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 *  [catacaustic](https://wordpress.org/support/users/catacaustic/)
 * (@catacaustic)
 * [8 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/development-advice/#post-9911829)
 * I’d do it the way that you’re thinking of, so that’s most likely the right way
   of thinking.
 * As for the relation between the two, there’s a few ways of doing it, but there
   main two that I use are:
 * **1 – Direct one-to-one relation** Best if the artworks will only ever have a
   single artist associated with them. The way that I do it, which isn’t stirctly
   the WordPress way, is to set the post_parent of the artwork to the ID of the 
   artist.
 * **2 – One-to-many** – To do this I’d add a new table into the database with the
   articst ID and the artwork ID as columns. That way you can add in any combinations
   that are needed, so an artist can work on multiple artworks, and an artwork can
   be related to multiple artists.
 * As a note, both of these methods use custom work. There’s probably some plugins
   out there that could help, but I’ve just done it mysel fin the pst.
 *  anonymized-15380454
 * (@anonymized-15380454)
 * [8 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/development-advice/#post-9913440)
 * How about:
    1. Create a custom post type “artwork”. 2. Create a custom taxonomy“
   artwork_artist” and attach/assign the “artwork” posts to this custom taxonomy.
 * Example structure:
 *     ```
       Leonardo da Vinci (a term/category in the "artwork_artist" taxonomy)
         Mona Lisa ("artwork" post)
         The Last Supper ("artwork" post)
       Pablo Picasso (a term/category in the "artwork_artist" taxonomy)
         Asleep ("artwork" post)
         Bathers ("artwork" post)
       ```
   
 * For each artist, create a standard Page, and use a plugin (or write your own 
   custom functions) to display the corresponding “artwork” posts. For example, 
   if the Page is for “Pablo Picasso”, then display only posts in the “Pablo Picasso”
   term/category (refer to the above example structure).

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