One page with index or multiple pages with a menu

  • Hello all,

    I am the process of converting 450+ pages on a WIX site to WordPress.
    These pages have 12 different subjects and therefore 12(!) dropdown menu’s, with submenu’s underneath.

    Now i need some advise how to handle this.
    Is it better to import it the way it was..
    or
    Make per subject one big page and have a page-index instead ?

    Thx in advance.

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  • @guuskruus

    I believe you mean 12 different categories. Is that so?

    Also, please elaborate on your second approach.

    There are many ways of doing this.
    I think you will end up with a mix of PAGES and POSTS, it is important to realise the distinction. A PAGE is a complete stand alone entity, if t needs clarification then it gets edited. While a POST is more like a magazine article, it has membership of various categories, it exists more in an information web than does a page.
    So pages are solid stand alone pieces, like an about page or a contact page. I expect you will find that you have some of these.
    The best way to start with POSTS is to create your category hierarchy, you may expect to have twelve top level categories, but I expect that some of these will close off at the top level and are actually pages, the rest divide into sub-categories and beyond. Put some effort into creating this category tree, it will help you organize the posts.
    You will be in for a good deal of copy/paste in transferring the WIX content to your PAGES and POSTS.
    Your menu will substantially organize itself around your PAGES and top level categories, with sub-categories below them. Just how this displays depends upon your theme. Start constructing the menu as you go with the content conversion, rather than doing all the conversion first.

    Thread Starter guuskruus

    (@guuskruus)

    Thank you all for this advise.

    I will clarify some further.
    @vajrasar,

    There are no category’s.
    Please see below.

    The Wix content are all stand alone pages.Sometimes there is some editing, but not like in a post, where there is a chronicle order.
    The pages are like a Knowledge base and thus all static.
    Here is what i mean (sorry all dutch, bur you can switch to Englisch)
    The site where its all about.

    You see here that there are lots of stand alone pages.
    In the new site, there will be post from contributers, and news items.

    Indeed, i try to experiment before i go converting ??
    The site is so gigantic, i struggle to make it all readable and get rid of all those superlarge menustructures. Therfor i tried a page with a index plugin that reacts on headers (<h2> etc)The plugin detects does headers and make a nice index on a page wich resides on the top.

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