Separating Recipes from Normal Blog Posts Advice

  • Resolved Alicia

    (@aliciagi)


    5 months ago

    I’m currently redesigning my client’s WP site. My client currently has 72 recipes all listed as blog posts using the ZipList Recipe plugin to create the recipe cards inside each post. Each post has applicable tags and is organized by categories (ex appetizers, dinner, lunch, etc.). My client currently uses Blogger for all her other regular blog posts, but she wants me to migrate them to WP. Once I migrate her blogger posts to WP I’m concerned about the recipes and standard posts getting all mixed together in a mess. What is a good approach for separating recipes from regular blog posts? Should I take the recipes out of the WP blog and use a separate plugin instead so they are not confused with my client’s standard posts? Or is there a way that I keep the recipes and standard posts organized so that I can separate them into different pages on the site (recipes page & blog page for the other posts)?

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  • Who are you worried will get “confused”?

    You/your client (ie in the dashboard)?

    The site’s visitors?

    Google?

    Thread Starter Alicia

    (@aliciagi)

    @gappiah What I meant was I want to make sure that the recipes are organized in a way so that they can be separate from the other blog posts on the website. I will have a recipe index page and a blog page where I don’t want the recipe posts showing up with the other blog posts that my client writes. It would be confusing if both recipes and other blog posts all showed up on the same page on the website. This is what I want to avoid, so I’m trying to figure out the best way to organize the recipes and other blog posts so that they each show up on their own pages. Hope this makes sense. Once I migrate my client’s blog articles from Blogger her recipe posts and standard posts (from blogger) will all show up as WP posts, so I’m trying to figure out the best way to organize them.

    catacaustic

    (@catacaustic)

    The “easy” way is to set up categories for both. Have a base category for “Blog” and another base category for “Recipes” and then set up whatever sub-categories of each are needed.

    The other way is to use a plugin or your own custom coding to add a custom post type for recipes. This will give you a bit more flexibility and keep them 100% separated but it may be overkill depending on how you want things to work.

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