Title: Entry type
Last modified: August 18, 2016

---

# Entry type

 *  [Terri Ann](https://wordpress.org/support/users/terriann/)
 * (@terriann)
 * [19 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/entry-type/)
 * I have been searching for the past 3 weeks for a way to sort entries by type.
 * For instance I have 3 categories: photography, web, site updates
    I need three
   types: portfolio, blog, reference
 * The 3 types are the main navigation of the site, and i was hoping there was a
   way to set types without using categories or that meta_data field. I’m looking
   for an additional field for each entry, is really what it comes down to, similar
   to the way that TextPattern handles entry types vs. categories.
 * If you haven’t heard of anything of this sort or if you think the meta_data is
   the way to go then please direct me to a GOOD explanation of how to use the meta_data
   because the reference I found in Codex.wordpress.org seemed to lack substance
   as far as detailed explanations go.
 * Heck I may eve settle for a primary category plug in at this point, which I have
   yet to find 🙁
 * Thanks!

Viewing 3 replies - 1 through 3 (of 3 total)

 *  [Chris_K](https://wordpress.org/support/users/handysolo/)
 * (@handysolo)
 * [19 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/entry-type/#post-448621)
 * I’m curious why you’re so opposed to using categories? If you’d use ’em, you’d
   be done.
 *  Thread Starter [Terri Ann](https://wordpress.org/support/users/terriann/)
 * (@terriann)
 * [19 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/entry-type/#post-448684)
 * [@handysolo](https://wordpress.org/support/users/handysolo/)
    My opposition to
   using categories has more to do with the fact that I am looking for the “types”
   to be weighted more than categories in terms of using that “type” to dictate 
   certain things in the design/template/content of a page.
 * Maybe I’m just over thinking it and making it more complicated for myself than
   necessary, so I’ll be giving it a shot using just categories, but I am still 
   curious if anyone has a solution besides just using categories.
 *  [Chris_K](https://wordpress.org/support/users/handysolo/)
 * (@handysolo)
 * [19 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/entry-type/#post-448685)
 * Tags? Google up Ultimate Tag Warrior as an example of a tagging plugin.

Viewing 3 replies - 1 through 3 (of 3 total)

The topic ‘Entry type’ is closed to new replies.

## Tags

 * [meta_data](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/meta_data/)
 * [primary](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/primary/)

 * 3 replies
 * 2 participants
 * Last reply from: [Chris_K](https://wordpress.org/support/users/handysolo/)
 * Last activity: [19 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/entry-type/#post-448685)
 * Status: not resolved

## Topics

### Topics with no replies

### Non-support topics

### Resolved topics

### Unresolved topics

### All topics