Custom Post Type or just Post Categories?

Question

I'm using WordPress as a Content Management System.

I currently have a few different Custom Post Types: featured, species, answers, forums and glossary.

These are all bespoke and wouldn't work with the default Posts functionality.

However, I've also got three separate types of Post which require the same functionality but are displayed on three separate areas of the website: news, articles, blogs.

My question is this: should I just use categories to display these posts, or should I create Custom Post Types for them?.

At the moment I'm using categories, but it's causing a couple of issues:

• As default a blog, an article or a news post all have the same URL format: website.com/post_slug
• I'd prefer it to be website.com/news/post_slug, website.com/blog/post_slug etc.

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• I'd like to be able to use a URL structure such as website.com/blog/author/name or website.com/author/name/blogs to view only that author's blog-type posts.

Thanks in advance,

Answer 1

I think keeping News, Blog, and Article all as post categories is a good idea.

To achieve domain.com/news/bob-smith/bobs-news-post set your Permalinks to be /%category%/%author%/%postname%/.