grammar website: The smartest structure (categories, links etc?)

  • Hi, I’m building a website for students of English grammar and vocablary my questions is this:

    I want the Hierarchy of the website to have 3 levels like this

    1. Grammar, vocabulary, punctuation,
    2. (verbs, nouns, adverbs etc. ) , (business vocab, travel vocab etc)
    3. (verb posts, noun posts, adverb posts) , (vocab… )

    So when you land on the front page you what you see are links for the first 2 levels of hiearchy:
    Grammar (verbs, nouns, adverbs), Vocabulary (business vocab, travel)

    So my questions:
    1. Should I create pages or categories for Grammar, vocabulary, punctuation such that when you press on grammar-link on the front page you are taken to a “grammar-category-page” “/grammar” that has the sub-categories to grammar. How do i do this? Can you use different categories as pages (grammar) or do you create a page called “grammar”
    2. Would it be beneficial to use archives for any of these purposes?

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  • What about Custom Post Types, they may help you a lot.

    Thread Starter christian0710

    (@christian0710)

    Hi Sidati, can you decide which pages different posts land on with custom post types? I was wondering if i should just turn everything into pages (like 150 pages total) and then have a blog for weekly grammar tips. Because All the grammar is pretty much static content (it’s there so people can access and index it for years). guess arranging it all into PAges –> sub-pages –> sub-sub-pages will still create good linking structure if i give it meaningful slug names?

    Thread Starter christian0710

    (@christian0710)

    Would that effects google index/ranking? Does google prefer posts over pages? The structure will be just if I had posts with categories because The PAGES are in hierarchy (3 levels) so the slug name will still be /grammar/verbs/past-tense

    Use category structure instead it helps you more and you can add extra property for each category using add_term_meta, update_term_meta & delete_term_meta, categories will help you if you want to create search filter and they are easy to manage.
    Page are usually used for “Contact, About … ect).

    Why i suggest post-type cause you ask if you can take advantage of archive, Well archives can only list the entries on one specific post-type, so if you use pages or posts for all of your entries, you will have one archive but if you use a post-type for grammar, and another one for vocabulary you will have 2 archives,

    for example site.com/?post_type=grammar will display all grammar entries while site.com/?post_type=vocabulary displays all vocabulary entries.

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