WordPress – Creating hierarchy between separate custom post types

[Ixolite]

Hi,

I’m trying to create a hierarchy like structure using non-hierarchical custom post types.

What I am trying to achieve is to have a ‘chapter’ and ‘book’ custom post types where several ‘chapter’ pages can be linked to selected ‘book’ page.

I can display a list of chapters inside a ‘book’ post easily with this code: http://pastebin.com/jdeqi0rR

First I check if meta checkbox is selected, indicating that the ‘book’ has chapters linked to it.

If it is, I run a loop to output all ‘chapter’ custom posts that have meta box value equal to current ‘book’ post slug value. That is the way I am linking the ‘chapter’ to ‘book’ – by inputting book’s slug into chapter’s meta box.

So listing chapters within a book is simple and works fine. However, I would also like to display book’s meta values from within ‘chapter’ post and that’s where I’m stumped.

I cannot figure out a way to get to ‘book’ custom post data by using values that are stored on the ‘chapter’ side. I want to be able to point the ‘book’ post by providing some meta value in ‘chapter’ post.

Any ideas?

[Ixolite]

OK, I figured it out – bad case of brain fart I guess. It was as simple as creating a query to display ‘book’ custom post based on the meta key value from the ‘chapter’:

$parent_name = get_post_meta($post->ID, 'ecpt_chapter_parent', true); //getting the 'book' post name value from current 'chapter' post

$temp = $chapter_query;

$chapter_query= null;

$chapter_query = new WP_Query();

$chapter_query->query('name='.$parent_name.'&post_type=any');

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