cannot achieve this structure (custom posts VS categories VS ??)

Question

I'm a bit despaired because I cannot figure out how to do what I need (and I worked with WP since a lot of time ..)

Basically, I need to show my artistic work. Each work is a post, or a page or a custom types (I still don't know which fits the best) I have 3 categories of work and I won't have more.

I have a blog on my website and the custom permalink is:

/blog/%year%/%monthnum%/%day%/%postname%/

So I guess it already removes the post type hypothesis (I don't want an url like :

julienbayle.net/blog ....

I want this:

julienbayle.net/works shows ALL my works as a portfolio page with only thumbnails as a grid/table and pagination.

julienbayle.net/works/creation shows only works in category creation as the grid of thumbnails too

julienbayle.net/works/lab shows only works in category lab as the grid of thumbnails too

julienbayle.net/works/collab shows only works in category collab as the grid of thumbnails too

When you click on thumbnails, you see the work considered, for instance:

julienbayle.net/works/collab/work1

julienbayle.net/works/collab/work2

etc.

I tried with a custom type named "works" but I had some problems with pagination. So I tried by using basic category hierarchy and pages :

works

-- creation

-- lab

-- collab

But I cannot have the good permalink + the link to each work is wrong (contains the structure of a blog post)

Anyone here to help me? BIG thanks in advance :)

Answer 1

This is fairly straightforward with a custom post type and custom taxonomy.

First, register a custom taxonomy worktype, with rewrite parameter set to works:

'rewrite' => array( 'slug' => 'works' )

Next, register a custom post type with rewrite set to works/%worktype%:

'rewrite' => array( 'slug' => 'works/%worktype%' )

You'll also need to set with_front to false if your posts have a static prefix, like blog.

Next, add a filter to post_type_link to swap the %worktype% tag with your selected worktype for individual works posts whenever WordPress outputs a link to an individual work:

function wpa_works_post_link( $post_link, $id = 0 ){
    $post = get_post($id);  
    if ( is_object( $post ) && $post->post_type == 'works' ){
        $terms = wp_get_object_terms( $post->ID, 'worktype' );
        if( $terms ){
            return str_replace ( '%worktype%' , $terms[0]->slug , $post_link );
        }
    }
    return $post_link;
}
add_filter( 'post_type_link', 'wpa_works_post_link', 1, 3 );

Answer 2

Change your permalink and set to this

    %postname%/

Its change your url Like a site url/category name/postname