Creating Post Relationships
Explore how to create post relationships in WordPress by linking event and course post types. Understand how to set up custom relationship fields using ACF, configure field settings, and manage related content efficiently for dynamic website interaction.
In this lesson, we will create a link between the course and event post types. We will associate every event with one or more courses.
Creating a custom field to link event and course
We will create a custom field to store the relationship between the event and course post types.
Click the "ACF" option from the admin dashboard sidebar and choose "Field Groups." Provide Related Course as the name of the field group.
Set field type to Relationship
The Related Course field group will have only one field to link the course and events post types. The "Field Type" is "Relationship" found under the section labeled "Relational."
We will set the "Field Label" as Related Course(s). This automatically converts to related_courses in the "Field ...