Help configuring Relational Fields

• lucasluciano

• May 22, 2019 at 8:54 pm

hi there!

I’m building a bookstore directory.

I have 3 types of custom posts: Bookstore, Book, and Author.

– Book can only have one Author, but can be on multiple Bookstores.
– Bookstore can have multiple books
– Author can have multiple Books

I want to be able to:
If I search for a Book > See a list of Bookstores where the book is available
If I enter a Bookstore page > See a list of all available books
If I search for an Author > See his books

I’m new to ACF and I need some advice on how to set the Relationship Field of this 3 CPT.

I’m using ACF free version but can go to PRO if that can help me achieve my goals.

Thanks for your help!

• kyfr4n

• May 22, 2019 at 9:00 pm

Hi @lucasluciano !

I’m not sure it is an ACF matter. What I would do in your case is:

• Create a Custom Post Type Book
• Create a taxonomy Bookstore
• Create a taxonomy Author

It’s the WordPress way to do this. No need to use Relationship Field.

Hope it helps.

• John Huebner

• May 22, 2019 at 10:07 pm

There is a tutorial on how to do this here https://www.advancedcustomfields.com/resources/querying-relationship-fields/

There is also a plugin that created bidirectional relationships https://wordpress.org/plugins/post-2-post-for-acf/

• lucasluciano

• May 23, 2019 at 1:01 am

@kyfr4n thanks for your help! Unfortunately, I need to have some content on each Author and on each Bookstore (pics, text, etc), if I set them as just taxonomies I’ll not be able to add much more than a short description, that’s why I need those to be a Post.

@hube2 Great! Thanks for the bidirectional tutorial, I think I can work from that!