Content Management Strategy

  • So, there’s lots of topics focused on how to do specific things, but I’d like to see some discussion of what to do and why to do certain things. Some higher-level strategy…

    For example, if you have a lot of pages, but want to focus attention on a few key ones, how do you do that? Limit the order and number of page links shown, so only the desired ones are visible? Or make the automatic page links invisible and hard code page links into the sidebar file? (I would think the less hardcoding the better, but I don’t know all the implications of either scenario – or perhaps a different solution altogether…)

    Suggestions on other ways to manage and display content (beyond the typical blog chronology) would be helpful. Maybe I’m looking for WordPress-as-CMS advice…

    Does that make sense?

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  • It makes sense. I approached this by making an entirely new sidebar, with the menu hardcoded “suckerfish” style. But of course when I add a new Page or post I need to manually edit the sidebar and upload afresh. I’m happy with that. Doubtless there are other ways to do it, but one thing I require is that the sidebar menu indicates which page the user is on and the item is no longer a link… hence the hardcoding.

    I think of WordPress as a CMS-lite system rather than the “blogging tool” that it is so often characterised to be, but I’m still waiting to hear what the limits of WordPress really are, size-wise.

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    Cool. Yea, I could live with updating the sidebar for new pages. (or at least the new pages that deserve a spot there…)

    Want to share a link to yours, or other examples of sites that have interesting ways of arranging content?

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