Category advice?

  • This is the only thing that I need help with. And need your advice.

    I have a blog that is about reviews. Lets say I have a menu that shows different theme parks. Disney to be exact. Epcot, Magic Kingdom, ETC…

    Then the sub menus would be for each, Dinning, Attractions, Entertainment, ETC….

    When writing the blog post, what is the best way to add a category or tag to the posts that would be like “Epcot, Attractions” and when a user is trying to discover the articles they would Hoover on Epcot menu then click on Attractions to see all these articles?

    I am having a hard time trying to figure it out. I really don’t want a bazillion categories.

    Thanks everyone who may try to help out.

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  • Eric,

    The examples you give here would be appropriate for categories, rather than tags. Keep in mind that you can use a custom menu for your navigation and rename the categories for menu purposes, which avoids the issue of duplication or needing to have a more complicated query. For example, let’s say you have a category called “Epcot.” This could be a parent category of child categories “Epcot Dining,” “Epcot Attractions,” etc. etc. When you create your menu, you can set it up so that the children are listed in a submenu of Epcot, and then rename them to be simply “Dining,” “Attractions,” etc. in the menu. When you do a post about a restaurant at Epcot, you would check the category boxes for “Epcot” and “Epcot Dining.” If you do it this way, clicking on “Epcot” would give the reader ALL your reviews about Epcot, and if they hover over “Epcot” and click “Dining,” they’ll only see posts in the “Epcot Dining” category.

    This approach will result in a lot of categories, but I think it’s appropriate for what you’re describing, and it won’t feel “cluttered” for the reader given the submenu strategy. Normally a post only has a few categories (1-3 is a good guideline) but can have lots of tags. So for example, you might want to tag a restaurant review that’s in the “Epcot Dining” category “Mexican,” “inexpensive,” and “family.” The advantage of this approach is that you could implement an advanced search feature in the future that allows a reader to search for all posts tagged Mexican in the Magic Kingdom or all posts tagged “inexpensive” and “family” in any of the parks.

    Let me know if this makes sense.

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