How Best to Handle My Content?

  • I have a site that I’m converting to WP — iphonesatwork.com — that primarily features three types of content: News, Profiles (of business people using iPhones at work), and reviews of iPhone Apps.

    I’m not sure how to handle these three so they each get the prominence they deserve.

    One way is to let the News be the main blog and give Profiles and Apps their own pages. The problem with that is fourfold: 1) They don’t get on the home page; 2) Visitors have to click a Profiles or App Reviews link to get to them; 3) Pages, as far as I know, don’t categorize and store “posts” the way posts do; 4) They don’t get picked up by RSS(?).

    Another option is write them all up as blog posts so they all get on the home page, but then precede each one with a label: “News: Blah Blah Blah,” “Review: Blah, Blah, Blah,” etc. (Ideally, rather than precede each entry with a label, it would be good to be able to put a “News,” “Profile” and “App Review” label _above_ a post’s headline (with it’s own font and style). Anyone know if that’s possible and how to do it?)

    Thanks for any thoughts.

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  • Thread Starter pab1953

    (@pab1953)

    Actually, I should add a fourth category … blog entries. ?? News, Profiles, App Reviews, Blogs. Four types of posts to accommodate …

    When I follow your link, you worked very very hard last day.
    Anyway, think like your visitors! They will want date/time sorted posts or excerpts on the frontpage so that they can keep track from one visit to the next.

    Thread Starter pab1953

    (@pab1953)

    Very, very observant of you, Henkholland — yesterday I worked my tail off — pretty much built a WP site from the ground (theme) up and transferred 35 pages of content from a non-WP site! It was exhausting but a great learning experience — WP Boot Camp. ??

    To your point, I can see where displaying post time will be important but where do I set that? I looked but couldn’t see.

    Well most of it you have already:
    August 8, 2009 by Philip Bishop · Leave a Comment
    Filed under: App Store, Apps, iTunes

    Probably generated by:

    <p class="postmetadata">
         <?php the_time(__('j F Y - H:i')); ?><?php edit_post_link('Edit', ' | ', ''); ?>
				</p>

    in your index.php and single.php

    See also, Admin Panel, Settings, General Settings. H:i is hour:minutes for me.

    Thread Starter pab1953

    (@pab1953)

    Thanks. I’ll check it out.

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