I need to make a call on how to manage hundreds of products. Ideally all the products could be pages but that would add a ton of pages under parent pages making it difficult for the end user to go through all the pages.
Is there a better way to manage custom product posts?
This is the structure it would follow:
Home
Products
> Product Type 1
> Product1
> Product2
> Product3
> Product4
> Product5
> Product6
> Product7
> Product8
> Product9
> Product10
> Product1…..and so on.
> Product Type 2
> Product11
> Product21
> Product31
> Product41
> Product51
> Product61
> Product71
> Product81
> Product91
> Product101
> Product111…..and so on.
As you can see this is going to get very dirty very quickly when there is 500 products to deal with.
I have already done this both ways but now I need to know how to associate the custom posts to the parent pages please.
This in my opinion should be done with Custom Post Types – and then assign a taxonomy with that (which could be product type?) – then you can style the taxonomy archive page however you like. So you’d have all of your products displayed on your archive-custom_post_type_name_here.php and then your Product Type (taxonomy) archive as taxonomy-taxonomy_name_aka_producttype.php
You can use a generator to create the code for Custom Post types and taxonomys here : http://themergency.com/generators/
So overall you’d have a Products as a Custom Post Type and then Product Types as a taxonomy (this works like categories).
Then you can add your custom fields to the Custom Post Type and display them as single-custom_post_type_name_here.php
Hope that makes some sense!
Hi @sixfootjames
I couldn’t have said it better myself, @Jamie – great advice!
Thanks
E
