Show posts of parent in edit.php

Question

I'm creating a post type for a site where there 4 main 'parent' pages in a custom post type. For the sake of argument the post type is 'schools'

the 4 (of many) parents are:

Cambridge Teesside Newcastle Sunderland

The post type 'schools' is a hierarchical post type, and what I would like to do is treat any children of the top 4 pages as a blogroll in the individual pages. To do this I would like to add a custom menu item on the post type menu that looks something like this

edit.php?post_type=schools&parent=123

Is this possible? If not, does anyone know of another way I can achieve this?

Cheers

Answer 1

If you are using just using 4 posts, I think that schools would better be suited as taxonomy terms rather than a post type. Associate your Posts with the school tax term. I would then create custom templates for each of those terms.

• taxonomy-schools-cambridge.php
• taxonomy-schools-teeside.php
• taxonomy-schools-newcastle.php
• taxonomy-schools-sunderland.php

Within those templates, use a WP_Query object to surface those posts. Read more about WP_Query taxonomy parameters here.

Your URLs would still be /schools/sunderland/ etc...

This seems like an easier out-of-the-box approach rather than creating new functions to do the same thing. Though, this comes down to UI preference at the end of the day.