[wp-hackers] Custom content question

[Alexander Hempton-Smith]

I'm with Eric on this, the natural way to do this is have the custom
post type (presentation) with a custom taxonomy (presenter). You get
so much functionality 'for free' when you use this simple built-in
method.

-- Alex

Sent from my iPhone

On 13 Dec 2010, at 22:12, "Adam Polon" <adam at modernsignal.com> wrote:

> Hi guys,
>
>
>
> I am working on a relatively small site that will have Presentations and
> Presenters (in addition to standard Posts and Pages).  On the presentation
> screens, we want to list the related Presenters (and have them link to the
> Presenter detail page) and vice versa.
>
>
>
> Ideally, we would use Custom Post Types to achieve this (and that seems like
> what the WP community would suggest).  It seems like everything has to be a
> taxonomy to make that work instead of allowing me to just select the related
> presenters on the Presentation admin screen.
>
>
>
> Is there an easy way to set up WordPress to manage these Content Types?
>
>
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> Presentations have:
>
> .         Title
>
> .         Date / Time
>
> .         Image(s)
>
> .         Description
>
> .         Registration URL
>
> .         Presenters (ideally a drop-down list)
>
>
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> Presenters have:
>
> .         Name
>
> .         Title
>
> .         Image(s)
>
> .         Bio
>
> .         Associated Presentations (ideally a drop-down list)
>
>
>
> Any help much appreciated.
>
>
>
> Thanks,
>
> Adam
>
>
>
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