Best way to separate blogs, media coverage, and press releases on WordPress?
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I'm curious what some of your thoughts are on the best way to handle the separation of blog posts, from press releases stories, from media coverage. With 1 WordPress installation, we're obviously utilizing the Posts for these types of content.
It seems obvious to put press releases into a "press release" category and media coverage into a "media coverage" category.... but then what about blog posts? We could put blog posts into a "blog" category, but I hate that. And what about actual blog categories? I tried making sub-categories for the blog category which seemed like it was going to work, until the breadcrumbs looked all crazy.
- Example: Homepage > Blog > Blog > Sub-Category
- Homepage = http://www.example.com
- First 'Blog' = http://www.example.com/blog
- Second 'Blog' = http://www.example.com/category/blog
- Sub-Category = http://www.example.com/category/blog/sub-category
This just doesn't seem very clean and I feel like there has to be a better solution to this. What about post types? I've never really worked with them. Is that the solution to my woes?
All suggestions are welcome!
EDIT: I should add that we would like the URL to contain /blog/ for blog posts /media-coverage/ for media coverage, and /press-releases/ for press releases. For blog posts, we don't want the sub-category to be in the URL.
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@Philip, did you find a solution for this one?
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On the /media-coverage/ page, the header says "Media Coverages Archives" -- I imagine there's a way to edit this headline? I checked archives.php with the theme but it doesn't look like it's pulling from there. If you aren't sure, I can see if the plugin creator can help out!
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The name of the post type only matters for your menu items in admin but yes it is an issue sometimes. You could call it "News Item" and "News Items" or just go all grammatically incorrect with "Media Coverage" and "Media Coverages"
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I am trying to add "Media Coverage" as a custom post type, and it asks for singular and plural... well, singular is the same as plural ('Media Coverages' sounds ridiculous), but it's telling me that they MUST be different from each other. Ever run into this problem and find a way around it?
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I had a feeling that post types might be my solution... I've been putting off learning about them for too long. Today is my day!
I'll look into that and let you know if I end up with any follow-up questions
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Hi Philip,
You definitely want to look into Custom Post Types. By creating a new Custom Post Type, it can allow you to create another set of content in the same manner as "Posts" (non-archived) or "Pages" (archived & hierarchical) you can then use to separate your content into buckets like you mention. For some folks we will create very specific custom post types like "Products" that feature items for sale. You can also create custom fields that apply to just those post types that can then be used to add additional meta data to the custom post.
Two plugins we use for this are-
- Types - https://wordpress.org/plugins/types/
- Advanced Custom Fields - http://wordpress.org/plugins/advanced-custom-fields/
Obviously there are others but that should get you started. I'm happy to reply to any other questions you may have, just leave a comment. Good luck!
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