Title: Posts within posts – please help
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# Posts within posts – please help

 *  [highway7](https://wordpress.org/support/users/highway7/)
 * (@highway7)
 * [16 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/posts-within-posts-please-help/)
 * Hi,?
 * Im making a site for an art gallery and have run into a problem.
 * I basically need to come up with a way to have a post within a post. This is 
   because each artist will be added as a post, meaning that single.php will display
   all of their artwork. However, each piece of art also needs to be a post, so 
   when a user clicks on an artwork image, that piece of arts details are displayed.
 * You can see what I mean if you visit
 * [http://www.john-barker.com/eagle-artists/gallery-artist.php](http://www.john-barker.com/eagle-artists/gallery-artist.php)
 * This page will be single.php and display all of the artists details and biography.
   Hwever, it needs to work as it does now so that if you click on a image, you 
   are taken to another single.php page which will display details of that work 
   of art.
 * Does anybody have any idea how I would go about this – basically displaying a
   post within a post. All help is greatly appreciated.
 * Thanks

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 *  [stvwlf](https://wordpress.org/support/users/stvwlf/)
 * (@stvwlf)
 * [16 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/posts-within-posts-please-help/#post-1235700)
 * I suggest you add each artist as a page and a category. Put the main info about
   the artist on the artist’s page. Have the artists’s page be a custom page template.
   Have each individual image be its own post, assigned to the category for that
   artist. Using a custom query on the custom page template, after the artist info
   has displayed, display the post summary of each image in turn – the summary would
   be just the image with a “click here for more” which when clicked opens the single.
   php for that image and displays the full details.
 * You could also have the info for the artist itself be a post in the same category
   rather than a separate page per artist. But using a page creates a natutal navigation
   structure. If you aren’t have loads of artists it would probably work better 
   long term.
 * custom page template:
    [http://codex.wordpress.org/Pages#Creating_Your_Own_Page_Templates](http://codex.wordpress.org/Pages#Creating_Your_Own_Page_Templates)
 * custom queries:
    [http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2008/04/13/define-your-own-wordpress-loop-using-wp_query/](http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2008/04/13/define-your-own-wordpress-loop-using-wp_query/)

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