Best way to split content into 2 "types"?

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Hi,

I am trying to create a personal blog that has 2 different “types” of content:

  • posts
  • links

Where a “post” is a standard blog post and a “link” is a link to something I’ve found that is interesting. A “link” has 2 custom fields (taxonomies?):

  • site (domain of link)
  • format (article / video / podcast)

I would like to use the built-in tags system, but I want to be able to list the tags for all posts separate from the tags for all links. Maybe the url structure is /posts/tags/ and /links/tags/, but it doesn’t have to be.

I tried using sections to accomplish this, but I couldn’t find a good way to cleanly separate the “types” of content.

Any help would be greatly appreciated!

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You can use sections for this:

I would not say that it is the BEST way… but it is how I would do it. It is a relatively simple way if you want to keep your frontmatter consistent within sections (which is important to me).

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Do the two content types really share a taxonomy, or can you model the content with multiple taxonomies? It seems like:

  • Posts might have a “tags” taxonomy
  • Links might have a “format” taxonomy
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I tried using sections, but I’m not able to list tags for each section without adding some logic to the taxonomy page

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Both posts and links will have “tags”. Only links will have “format” and “site”.

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Well, if you want to list the tags per content type, and not an aggregate display, create two taxonomies:

[taxonomies]
link_tag = ‘link_tags’
post_tag = ‘post_tags’

Then set permalinks in your site config.

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Thanks! That worked. For future searchers, this is what I ended up with:

taxonomies:
  tag: tags
  link_tag: 'link_tags'

permalinks:
  taxonomy:
    link_tags: /links/tags/
  term:
    link_tags: /links/tags/:slug/
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