WordPress Portfolio Site: Pages or Posts?

Hi guys

After months (years) of tearing my hair out trying to design my own design portfolio site (perhaps the hardest job for a designer) I have decided to use WordPress to power it and keep the presentation simple.

I intend to run a blog alongside my portfolio, so while the blog entries will function as normal and be listed on a ‘Blog’ page, I was wondering what the best way to approach the actual Portfolio section would be.

I will have a ‘Portfolio’ page on the site, within which I will show the design projects. The question is:

Should I create the design projects as ‘Portfolio’ sub-pages or posts with a specific category?

If I use pages, then I get more complete control over the appearance of the projects and can associate a custom page template to them. Each project will have a nice neat /portfolio/project type permalink and it will also not show the age of any of the projects…

But…

If I use posts then the projects will be searchable within the site, as well as having categories, so I could list all website projects for instance on a Portfolio index page, or show a ‘recent projects’ panel.

I guess I’m worried about pages not having categories, portfolio project posts being truncated, or at the prospect of my personal blog and design portfolio getting mixed together in search results, but perhaps the right tweaking of code can ensure they are always presented entirely separately…

In summary, I’m unsure – What does anyone here think? Has anyone approached this from either way and have some advice or suggestions? Seems a shame not to harness the full power of the WP database for the projects as well as the blog posts…

Cheers!

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