How to structure content / Advanced Site Hierarchy

  • Hi thank you for any advice in advance.

    I have been designing websites for several years and although I am happy with the styling I am yet to create a coherent website structure and hierarchy.

    On previous sites, I have done ok but as the site grew (there quite big) the structure fell apart.

    I am in the process of designing a new website and again stuck on th way to structure it.

    The site is a music agency and I am looking to replicate a simple structure.

    Taking it at face value the act types are the categories but how are the location filtered and classified in the structure? Any thoughts are they categories, tags or post types?

    My site will have approx:

    8 acts types

    50 acts

    and need to target regional locations for the act types.

    I have gone round and round with this for years really and search and search online and can’t find anything to explain this kind of structure. If anyone can advise me how to structure this I would be so grareful.

    Best wishes

    Tim

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  • Moderator bcworkz

    (@bcworkz)

    Specific data like individual acts should in a post of some sort. While you could use actual posts if they are not used for blog posts, I’d create a custom post type “act” just because it’s more intuitive than “post”. The post content could be used for the act’s general description, the title for their name, and all other act specific data is stored in custom fields or post meta (same thing, different names).

    In reality “act” post type should be prefixed to avoid possible name collisions. Pick a consistent set of initials to prefix everything you do on the site, say “abc”. The post type slug should then be “abc_act”. All outward facing labels can be simply “Act” or “Acts”, the prefix is for internal coding.

    Organization of posts or acts should be through taxonomies. You have categories and tags by default. Categories for act type makes sense if categories are not needed for anything else. You could create an “act_type” taxonomy if you thought it would make more sense. Also create a “region” taxonomy.

    There are plugins that will help you create custom post types and taxonomies. If you have some coding aptitude even if no PHP experience, you could likely cobble together your own custom plugin to register custom post types and taxonomies. It’s pretty much copy/paste coding with some string editing to fit your needs.

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