Custom post type history

I would probably go with a custom post type ( draught – the golden honey from the gods ) as you already have.

I would then create two taxonomies, keg ( which can be a hierarchical taxonomy ) and line ( which can be a non-hierarchical taxonomy )with their respective terms.

Example :

• keg

  • coors
  • bud
  • labatte

• line

  • one
  • two
  • three

The reason for keg being hierarchical is that you can later have child terms under your parent terms which makes it easier to extend

Each time a new post is published, you can assign one term from each taxonomy to it. The advantage here is, you are looking for a system where you can keep records of previous pairings etc. You will not have this if you simply keep on updating the same post. Yes, you can work with revisions, but that is really not the way to go here

So what you should do is, create a new post everytime something changes in your line up and assign the appropriate terms to that specific post.

The only issue is going to be how you are going to display them on your home/front page ( I would opt for a static front page here). In my opinion, you will need to loop over each term in the line taxonomy and get the latest post from each term using WP_Query or get_posts. You would may be need to sort the results for them to be in numerical line order and you will need transients to store your results as it can become an expensive query to run

Here are some posts you might find useful in connection with the above

• Custom sort order with get_terms -> This post uses get_users but you should be able to use this on get terms. I do thing it will be best first to create your tems in numerical order, one first and ten last, then you can simply use the build in sort by ID to sort your terms

• Using transients -> In this post I have explained well with code how to setup and use transients to save on db calls and time.

I hope the above info makes sense