I must be doing this wrong

  • Resolved adamsbriand

    (@adamsbriand)


    9 years, 6 months ago

    I am a wordpress newb, blythley creating pages and posts and I begin to think that I am going about it incorrectly.

    Because I’m so embarrassed by my site’s current architectural predicament, I’m describing a generic (alphabet) site with simplified structure that details what I see as problems, but lets my site be slightly anonymous.

    I am creating content that I’ve been organizing in pages, typically in this format:

    PageLetters
 PageTopicIntroA
  PageTopicContentA1
  PageTopicContentA2
  PageTopicContentA3
 PageTopicIntroB
  PageTopicContentB1
  PageTopicContentB2
  PageTopicContentB3

    Where PageTopicIntroA introduces the “A” topic and also links to the A1, A2, A3 content pages.

    I make PageTopicIntroA to have a parent of PageLetters, and similarly make the A1-A3 content pages to have a parent of the PageTopicIntroA page.

    Then, I also have been creating an entry in my main menu for “A”, moving it to appear under the PageLetters page, and similar operations for the content pages. This seems redundant to me, but I don’t know how otherwise to achieve the organization I want. Just assigning a parent doesn’t seem to be doing the trick.

    Importantly though, I also want to make use of the recent posts style front page. To the best of my understanding, this deals exclusively with posts, not pages. So, to satisfy this, I create an “A” topic post, PostTopicEvenShorterIntroA, having just a brief blurb, which introduces the subject and then “kludges” a read-more type link which doesn’t continue with the post (there’s actually no more of it), but instead jumps to the related PageTopicIntroA page.

    If I was writing this as code, I’d feel that I had completely mis-architected the design. I see redundancy in terms of
    . having to micromanage both the menu and the pages
    . having to create posts that correspond to the pages

    And keep thinking that I must be going about this the wrong way.

    Can anyone suggest a better way to approach this type of structural result with less pain in the setup?

    BTW, I have the latest updates to wordpress, plugins, and my theme (2015).

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  • Are you using categories at all? Instead of Pages for TopicContent, put content in Posts and assign them to Post/Categories. Then use Appearance/Menus to organize the Pages and Categories in the structure you want.

    Thread Starter adamsbriand

    (@adamsbriand)

    Carole, thank you for your response. No, I wasn’t using categories, but I’ve started. I definitely see the advantage to this now. Basically, everything I ever tried to do with pages should be done with posts and their inherent categories should auto-build the menu.

    thank you.

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