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I am building a site that needs pages such as News, Events, Projects and People. My question is, how should I achieve this in WordPress? Do I use custom post types? And if so, how do I have a page for each?

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You can also use categories as News, Projects etc. and use category archive page as the archive for them. But this will limit the functionality as you can not easily categorize the posts within that category. So I recommend using cusom post type for that.

If you decide to go with custom post type then you'll need to set the has_archive parameter to true While registering post_type, That will enable archive page for that post type, It uses $post_type as slug for archive page for that custom post type, then archive page url will be mysite.com/post_type/

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That's helpful, distinguishing the use of categories from custom post types - thank you for clearing that up for me. I created a custom post type, with has_archive set to true, but going to /post_type_slug isn't doing anything. – Oliver Joseph Ash Aug 3 '12 at 11:14
does it giving 404 error ? – amit Aug 3 '12 at 11:30
No, it takes me to my home page. – Oliver Joseph Ash Aug 3 '12 at 11:33

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