Site structure in WordPress?

  • mattholding

    (@mattholding)


    16 years ago

    Hi, as usual I hope this is in the right section. I am having some headaches regarding how I should structure my site.

    I initially planned to navigate with taxonomy but I plan to have several subdomains/mini sites (parent categories) which each have the same menu options (sub categories) which I know is impossible. I would need each category slug to be able to recognise its parent to provide tailored content to each one.

    In this case is it easier to work with multiple installs of WordPress on each subdomain?

    EG if it was a travel site about the UK each category would be a city and each city would have the same subcategories with things to do there (restaurants, bars etc) and on each subcategory page it would be able to give a description of the purpose of the page (to show restaurants) in respect to that particular city(parent).

    Sorry if this is not clear – I am just looking for the best way to progress before I go too far. Multiple blogs or taxonomy in this case?

    Thanks in advance

    Matt

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  • Moderator Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)

    (@ipstenu)

    🏳️‍🌈 Advisor and Activist

    16 years ago

    Another option would be to use categories for restaurants, bars, etc. Things that are the SAME across multiple places. Then use tags for the city name.

    There are a lot of different ways to do this, including custom taxonomies, so you could have a tag ‘Amsterdam’ with sub-tags ‘bars’ and so on as well, though I think the one-two punch of tags and cats would work well.

    Thread Starter mattholding

    (@mattholding)

    16 years ago

    Thanks for the reply, I am looking into it now. One quick question…

    Would this still produce a coherent link structure ie website.com/tagname(city)/categoryname(restaurants)/ ?

    Moderator Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)

    (@ipstenu)

    🏳️‍🌈 Advisor and Activist

    16 years ago

    I don’t believe so, though … This may be a call for custom post types. That said, I don’t know enough about them to do that.

    Thread Starter mattholding

    (@mattholding)

    16 years ago

    From what I have experimented with it is not possible to add the tag in a permalink, but I am wondering about having different “users” to post the different content. Is this frowned upon? I can imagine this is not the most efficient way of structuring a website.

    example.com/user(city)/category(restaurant)/postname etc

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