newbie: how to achieve multiple nested views of content

  • Hello, I am hoping to kick-start my WordPress experience by learning from you who’ve done this before. Eventually I would like to contribute answers, too, based on my experience and discoveries ??

    Backstory: I’ve administered databases and set up CMS’s on other platforms but for this purpose WordPress could be attractive to my family members (rather than have to work at a nuts and bolts level.) It seems that WordPress delivers design efficiency and user-friendliness based on a drag-and-drop paradigm as opposed to manually setting up structures, content,etc at a “keyboard” level.

    Let us say the content will exist at two levels, call them “episodes” and “parts” The website visitor should be able to select an episode and then select one of several parts. So there will be two levels of sorting – episodes and parts. When selecting an episode the user will see teasers of the parts relevant to that episode. Clicking on a teaser will display the entirety of that part. Make sense?

    In database terms I would create a view that sorts on episodes and then do a sub-sort on parts and because these sorts are separate, the episode sort could be, say, descending and the parts sort could be ascending.

    While I am sure that this will be very easy to do, I need to get my head around the terms that WordPress uses to express these ideas. Your help for a “newbie” is sincerely appreciated!

    I have scanned through existing forum content but perhaps due to my lack of understanding of the vocabulary of WordPress the results are not yet fully relevant.

    Kind regards,
    Denis

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  • The simplest way to do this is to use WordPress’s built-in “POSTS” content type, in which case…

    Episodes => Category
    Parts => Post

    First, create the different CATEGORIES (ie your EPISODES) under POSTS => CATEGORIES.

    Then you’ll create the individual “parts” as WordPress POSTs. Each post can be assigned to one or more categories (episodes).

    By default, each category has an “archive” page listing all posts within that category. This listing will typically show an excerpt of each post, with a link that leads to the full post. Posts are displayed in reverse chronological order (newest first) by default, but this can be changed by tweaking your theme.

    The category archive URL can be like this:

    https://example.com/category/{{name}}

    … where {{name}} is the name of each category.

    Note that the prefixed-keyword “category”, while required, can be changed to whatever word you want, so yours could be something like:

    https://example.com/episode/{{name}}

    NOTE:

    WordPress supports custom content types other than the built-in POSTs and PAGES. So if you wanted to have a separate BLOG section of your site, you could create a custom content type instead for the EPISODES/PARTS, with a similar configuration as the built-in POSTs type.

    Thread Starter denisb1950

    (@denisb1950)

    Hello George

    Sincerely appreciated and it makes a lot of sense. Your reply is very clear and helpful! I shall get working on it.

    Kind regards,
    Denis

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