I’m working on the IA and functionality for a medical website (similar to WebMD). Looking to have 5 main categories of posts; Symptoms, Diseases, Medications, Tests & Procedures, and Home Remedies.
**Q1: Should these be post types or categories?**
I’m trying to figure out how to organize these and assign categories and tags in order to achieve some custom search functionality.
For example, if I go to Tests & Procedures archive, I want to be able to search by Disease to view relevant Tests & Procedures (posts) associated with that Disease. What I don’t want is posts from other categories ie Medications, Symptoms, Home Remedies or Diseases, showing up in the results.
Similar logic would apply to the other categories as well. IE if I search Symptoms archive, I want only want to see associated Diseases in the results.
**Q2: What is the best approach for achieving this functionality?**
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