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I would love to make my blog had a tumblr functionality (video, chat, quotes, etc.).
I wonder whether to create a channel for each kind of entry, or maybe display them using statuses?
I would like that these channels were shown on one page and each of post had an icon (as is the case in Tumblr) depends of channel (video, chat, quotes etc.).
I know that using

{exp:channel:channel entries="text|quotes|video"}

I can display all entries from those channels on one page, but how to distinguish each type?
How to display various custom_fields in this case, for example quote is {quote_body}, video os {video_embed}?

EE can do that?

Cheers from Poland.

Hi Robcio,

If you put them in different channels, you can use a conditional to see from which channel the current entry is:

{exp:channel:entries channel='text|quotes|video|audio'}

  {if channel_short_name == 'text'}
    // Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet consectetur.
  {if:elseif channel_short_name == 'quotes'}
    // To be or not to be… what was the question again?
  {if:elseif channel_short_name == 'video'}
    // Show me the money!
  {if:elseif channel_short_name == 'audio'}
    // Shout it out!
  {/if}

{/exp:channel:entries}

Using channels has the advantage over using categories that you can show different channel fields.

Greetz,
Wouter

It works!
Thank you a lot!