Multiple categories with common subcategories

  • In a school’s WP site there used to be a main category “Blog” with n subcategories for each class:

        Blog
    |__ Year 1
    |__ Year 2
    .
    . 
    |__ Year 9

    Now we want to introduce the “Announcement” category, however this category will have the same subcategories as “Blog”

        Announcement
    |__ Year 1
    |__ Year 2
    .
    . 
    |__ Year 9

    No big troubles since WP will create different slugs for each subcategory, however I feel like wasting subcategories and making subcategory selection a bit confusing.

    I wonder if it makes sense promoting the “Year x” subcategories to main category and couple the other main categories to properly address categorising.

    For instance, a post with main categories “blog” & “Year 2” will be related to class year 2 in the blog, while a post with main categories “announcement” & “Year 5” will refer to an announcement for class Year 5.

    What do you think? Pros and cons?

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