0

I have a website called http://overmvp.com. On this site, there are multiple "Heroes". Each hero has been manually added to the database in a custom table.

With this, I need to create a guide. So for example, I would need to be able to create a guide for a specific "Hero". For that, I've created a custom post type called "Guides", and also a Taxonomy. In the Taxonomy, I've re-added all the "Heroes" that I've previously added in the database. (So they are not duplicated) So now, I can create a guide for a specific hero.

But now my problem is that I have to add more types to a guide. So for example, I want to show "Guides" of a specific type of "Hero". So I need to write down the type of that hero somewhere.

As with "Hero Types", I would also need to be able to mark them as, featured guide or things like that.

My first guess was to add a custom field to the Taxonomy, so for every hero, I would add the type of the hero, but I fell that I am duplicating the heroes, types, pretty much every information they have.

So is there another way I should incorporate the "Heroes" into my website, so I can use them in my custom post type directly and not duplicate them like I do ?

What are your thoughts on this?

1
  • I'm not sure I quite understand what you are trying to do here, could you add an example of how this might work for the user? I think you are going in the right direction with a custom post type, but I'm not quite sure how you want your data to connect up.
    – Victoria
    Jan 16, 2016 at 9:20

1 Answer 1

0

Sorry for a wrong answer.

It is posted in other question.

About your situation,

Heroes seem like Category(Custom Taxonomy)

Guides is a custom post (Custom post)

About Heroes Type, it can be a subcategory of Heroes or you can create new custom taxonomy for it.

In custom post, you just need to embed Heroes Types and Heroes if you have 2 different custom taxonomy.

More simple, you can use guides meta to save values (just like postmeta).

Taxonomy can be embed anywhere in any custom post. It depend on your idea and your data structure.

3
  • In general, we have our heroes section already builded with all the information each hero need. So for example Hero 1 is Type 1, Hero 2 is Type 2 ... User on the website will be able to create guide, so if they chose Hero 1, the guide will have Type 1 assign to it. Here is a screenshot describing it a little puu.sh/mxlIz/2d509a4267.png The hero is on the left, the little shield is the type, there is the guide name so when we click on it, we access the guide. So then we would like to filter guides by type (on top), check this image gyazo.com/91256feb668afd2e99e9690209eeafdd Jan 16, 2016 at 8:17
  • You can use ajax to process this problem. Data will be filtered by heroes and type.
    – Huy Nguyen
    Jan 16, 2016 at 9:06
  • Alright I understand, but I mean that all my data will be like "duplicated" on my website if I keep it like that because, I have all my "Heroes" in a database table, but I have to write them again in my Taxonomy, so with my Custom Post Type, I can select the "Hero" I want. Is there another way I could do this so I don't duplicate my Data ? Jan 16, 2016 at 9:13

Your Answer

By clicking “Post Your Answer”, you agree to our terms of service and acknowledge that you have read and understand our privacy policy and code of conduct.

Not the answer you're looking for? Browse other questions tagged or ask your own question.