Discussing the usefuleness of categories

  • Since I’m upgrading both the WP version and theme for my site, I’m doing a lot of refining on the things I’ve learned blogging over the last few months.

    When it comes to categories I wanted to really refine things, to make my site far more navigable and user-friendly by using CATEGORIES to a greater effect, especially as a means for people finding what they want in the archives.

    It would be IDEAL if I could have parent / child categories as such:

    Art & Design
    Art & Design > Interviews
    Art & Design > JPEG
    Art & Design > Videos
    Books
    Comment & Opinion
    Comment & Opinion > Guest Authors
    …
    Music
    Music > Interviews
    Music > MP3
    Music > Reviews

    Unfortunately it doesn’t seem like WordPress allows this (in its standard form- im no programmer so can’t write a plugin). Here is where the problems lie:

    A) I can’t create two child categories called “Interviews”, even though one would be under “Art & Design” and the other “Music”, which would work in a hierarchical directory sense, but not with WordPress categories.

    B) Actually it’s just A) for just now.

    I wonder if anyone has an opinion on this, understands where I’m coming from, knows a solution, or perhaps could point out some facts that I’ve missed out on when it comes to this navigation issue.

    I truly appreciate any valuable input from the WordPress community,

    Thanks.

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  • dominoeffect – sorry to pop in here but there’s no way to PM your moniker so I’m following your footprints on the forum.

    I did a google for WP gurus for hire and came across a thread you posted months ago where you were looking for someone to hire to help you with your blog. I need someone to complete setup of our blog. Did you ever find someone, where and if so are they worth a recommendation?

    Thanks mate.

    Thread Starter dominoeffect

    (@dominoeffect)

    Hi mate,

    Sorry for taking so long to write- to answer your question I strongly reccommend the site https://jobs.wordpress.net/ for finding a suitable guru, I received LOADS of email from potential applicants and soon found someone who could best do the job at a decent price.

    Hope that helps,

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