Hi,
I am not a professional developer and am self taught. I made a site for a non profit organization I volunteer for. The site will be administered by people who have absolutely no or only basic knowledge of WordPress. So I thought it would be best to structure the backend to make it a bit easier to access for them. I have a blog and 3 different custom post types. Some of these post types also loop into the blog, but they are not normal “blog posts”, they belong to a magazine that we publish. I want to keep the magazine and the normal posts separated, but also want users that visit our blog see, there is a new magazine article publishe. That’s why I tied the CPT for my magazine articles into my blog loop.
Now, because of an error with the theme I am using, I got in touch with the theme developers. And they essentially told me, that it’s problematic when cpts loop into the blog, that this complicates a lot, and that I should reconsider my setup. Basically they said I should not have to use cpts, that I should rely on taxonomy to differentiate between my postings. I feel that this would make my posts section really busy and confusing. Also that would mean having a lot of taxonomies to distinguish between the posts.
Now I want to know – is it really that bad having multiple CPTs and having some of them looped into my blog? I would appreciate your perspectives. What are your experiences?
Thanks!
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How exactly are you combining your posts and magazine posts?
If I had 2 post types I wanted to show on the same archive page I would use [pre_get_posts]) to alter the WP_Query to set the post_type to an array containing the post types I want to see.