Magazine Solution: Taxonomies or good old custom fields?

  • Hi,

    i’ve got to make a “Magazine-Style” webpage with WordPress. Not too difficult so far.

    The articles are stored in categories. Every month, there will be added new articles. Still no problem.

    But I’d like to stack the new articles of every month to “editions” or “episodes”. Just like in a magazine or a newspaper, I’ll need to tell wordpress somehow that the articles also belong to e.g.”episode 20″.

    One approach is to solve this with custom fields. Every article will get a custom field “episode” and I can query only articles with the appropriate custom field.

    WP 2.8 provides custom taxonomies. I read a bit about it, but I don’t know if this makes sense for my problem.

    Anybody out there, who had to do something similar? Any tips? Thanks a lot for reading ??

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  • Why don’t you try using one of the Magazine Themes. They allow you to assign multiple categories to a post and have drop-downs on the menu bar to select items in specific categories.

    See https://www.thedavidchronicles.com for an example.

    Thread Starter gegenalles

    (@gegenalles)

    Hi,

    thanks a lot.

    I got even another approach now. There’s one day per month, when all new articles for the new “episode” are created.

    This means, that all articles in the month X belong to one episode.

    My index-page is now a kind of “monthly archive” for the current month. A little bit pimped up with fancy boxes for Top-Story and “Featured Posts” with some custom fields – you see all posts of the current episode – like if you got a piece of newspaper.

    Clicking on a article triggers the single view with some related posts below.

    It’s an ease working with you, wordpress!

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