Is creating a bunch of archive pages the best way to organize this site?

  • atomique

    (@atomique)


    17 years ago

    hey everyone!

    i am redesigning a site for a production company. they would like to organize all their film clips by topic, and have them available to site visitors by topic, and without them having to scroll through text-only blog posts.

    this is totally doable in my head. i just create separate archive pages for every cross-categorized topic…. right?

    really, what i’m looking for is just a bit of confirmation that this is how i should go about this. is this the best/easiest way? if NOT, what would be?

    any help is much appreciated!! thank you!

    joi.

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  • Moderator Samuel Wood (Otto)

    (@otto42)

    www.remarpro.com Admin

    Seems like a pain. Why not use categories? Each category could be a topic. Then they just make a post and put the content in that post, with the right category.

    Don’t think of Posts as “text-only”. They’re just time indexed entries with metadata attached to them. Even Pages are a form of Post. Heck, so are Attachments.

    If they do want to have text-only blog posts, they can have those too. All they need is a category for “blog posts” or something. Then set the blog page to only show those posts. Use the category archives to show various topics and such.

    Thread Starter atomique

    (@atomique)

    sorry, i must not have been clear:

    1. the archive pages will be organized by common categories, ie- one page for all the posts that in BOTH racism and video, another for all the posts that in BOTH identity and video, etc.

    2. in the blog, there are posts that are text-only, and there are posts that contain video. we want to separate the text-only blog posts from the video-only posts so those looking for only video don’t have to scroll through the text-only posts.

    that’s the definition of ‘text-only’ in this situation.

    hopefully you have a better understanding now of why i am considering creating individual archives.

    thanks!

    joi.

    Moderator Samuel Wood (Otto)

    (@otto42)

    www.remarpro.com Admin

    Categories will still work. You will need your pages to use query_posts with the category__and parameter.

    If identity is category 2 and video is category 3, then this would load up any posts in both cats:
    <?php query_posts(array('category__and'=>array(2,3)); ?>

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