I need help designing a strategy.

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    (@iechefs)


    12 years, 11 months ago

    I need help designing a strategy. I’m maintaining my mom’s website. She teaches English Composition at our local community college. Ever since she was using WordPress, she was already semi-retired and only had one class per semester.

    She is taking the Winter inter-session off, but in the Spring semester, she will be teaching two classes, English 1A, which is Composition, and English 1B, which is Critical Thinking–two completely different courses.

    Now, we have two different kinds of audiences on the same website. I would like to split which data gets to each group.

    Idea #1:
    Modify the log-in to make the subscribers choose between English 1A, or 1B and assign different roles to each group. I don’t know how to do it, but it’s only an idea.

    Idea #2:
    Make a redundant installation of WordPress in different directories. (/1A and /1B).

    Here’s my problem with Idea #2:
    The current installation is in a subdirectory called “RCC” because the school is Riverside City College. Can I rename the folder? How can I change the folder name to “1A” without messing up the MySQL database? I can easily install a second WordPress into a “1B” folder. Is this unnecessary? Is idea #1 better?

    Idea #3
    Don’t make any of these major changes, but simply put a link to 1A category archives and another link to 1B category archives. If they click the wrong link, it’s their own problem.

    Does anybody have an idea #4?
    Does anybody have an idea how to implement either ideas #1, #2, or #3?

    Thanks.

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  • #4 Create a set of header images (or just links), 1A, 1B, with clear notation to click the one for your Subject. The href associated with the img tag or link is the category for each subject. When posting for subject A you post into cat A and cat B for Subject B…when you use the URL ‘mysite dot com/category/1A/’ (the href) you will (in the default theme and most themes) then be at the archives page for the category. These are usually sorted newest first, and show ‘x’ number per page, and can use a pagination plugin etc.

    So, it can all be done with a few html additions to the site and the basic functionality of WordPress.

    Good luck on the class!

    Thread Starter iechefs

    (@iechefs)

    Thank you! That is a simple solution. My solutions were all too complicated.

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