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wordpress-powered portfolio site?
planning to use wordpress for my portfolio divided into categories like ILLUSTRATION, GRAPHIC DESIGN, MOTION GRAPHICS. do you think it's better to enter my portfolio pieces as a POST or as a PAGE? also do i categorize my portfolio entries using the category or entry tags? for example, if a user clicks on "ILLUSTRATION", i want all entries filed under illustration to list on the page.
for now i'm fine with settling for a text link to link to a entries' individual pages but in the future i might also want a thumbnail listing instead of a text link. how do i do that? i imagine i do that by way of custom fields (upload a custom thumbnail image?)?
so basically to compress this question:
1. which is better-- post or page?
2. category or tags?
3. how to make thumbnail listings?
most of it is just personal preference.
1.) i would say post. since you can put it in a category so when people select that category everything will show up.
2.) categories tend to work better than tags since you can alway s tag something and you might have images overlap into other categories.
3.) I do believe wordpress has plugins for flicker and image hosting sites like that if you want to look into that. wordpress does have some very nice image plugins too that you can look into.
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