I'm setting up an mt-powered website for an acoustic club I help organise. I want to have entries in one category previewing forthcoming evening and to offer a simple way of linking these to artist bios, which are entered in another category. If possible I'd like to link the artist bios back to preview entries so as to easily produce a list of dates these artists have played.

My immediate thought is that this should be possible using trackback, but I can't quite think how I could work that. Any suggestions?

cheers. James.

One approach without using TrackBack might be to create a separate category for each artist. So an event featuring Bob Smith, Sally Brown, and John Jones would be tagged with four categories: "Event", "Bob Smith", "Sally Brown", and "John Jones". Then it'd be easy to create a category archive page that listed all the event entries for a given artist.

That might be cumbersome if you're dealing with more than a few dozen artists, though.

Yeah. At the moment I'm dealing with 12 artists with two more to go in this week and then probably another 2 each month. Maybe more. Could get unwieldy pretty quickly.

cheers. James.

On TheRedKitchen, I'm linking to the cooks bios on each post - but I have each cook set up as an author, and that doesn't sound like what you are doing.

Are you using any of the fields in your entry for just the artist name?  for example, if you are using the title field, then you could link to the bio with something like this - if your bios were at artist_name_bio.html.

Are you using the MySQL backend?  There might be a way to do some of the things you are wanting with php.

I can't think of how Trackback would work very well for this situation except maybe to ping the bio entry with each post about that artist.  Then list the incoming pings on the bio entry.  Hmmm...

Kristine