Custom Post Type and Taxonomy Question

  • Resolved Monkeyboy

    (@monkeyboy)


    13 years, 3 months ago

    First of all, taxonomies… brilliant. I’m going to start using them on my film review website for Genre, Actors, Directors, Release Date, Rating, plus anything else I care to add.

    It’ll help prune my category list down, which I can now keep to “Film Reviews” and not much else.

    The big question is, do I need a custom post type for Movies? Part of me thinks yes I do, and another part doesn’t. In a way, it would feel like I’m just duplicating something which “Posts” already do.

    My movie site (bananasaboutmovies.com) for now is mostly film reviews. If I was to add another type of post, say a “News” post, isn’t it easier to just create a “News” category. Then in single.php, it’s just a case of checking whether the post is in the “News” or “Film Reviews” category, to decide how to display it.

    I guess I need someone to sell custom post types to me a bit more, and how they would be useful in terms of my website.

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  • I would only use custom post types if your CPT are going to be totally different from your posts. If you had a blog with lots of categories and then just wanted one type of posts to be totally different, then yes, CPT make perfect sense. Otherwise, you’re right, if you can use posts, then why not.

    I use CPTs on my site for my portfolio pieces. I’ve used them on another for job postings. If you’re site is about film reviews and you’re mostly blogging about films, then you probably don’t need them.

    Thread Starter Monkeyboy

    (@monkeyboy)

    Thanks for the reply. You’ve confirmed what I was thinking (or rather, dithering over). I’ll stick to using just “Posts”.

    Hi Friends,

    I am new to wordpress plugin development. I want to create my plugin for directory listings which consists of categories and sub categories.

    Can u please give me any link for the tutorial that how to use my custom categories and posts.

    I shall be very thankfull to you.

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