One set of articles, two indexing methods?

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    A magazine has been running for twenty years under five editors and recently all articles were uploaded to make a WordPress archive of issues.

    Currently the index is by Article Subject within Editor – i.e. select an editor (and therefore a time period of issues) and under that top category heading, articles belong to categories such as Sport, Schools, Politics, etc., some of which have sub-categories. Of course, this means that there are five instances of each article subject category – one for each editor.

    We also want to index the same articles with Article Subject as the top category, without the editor categorisation – because some people prefer to browse that way. We think we’ll have to create a complete new set of parallel categories and filter the indexes in some way but we can’t get this to work.

    Does anyone know a way to do it? Is it even possible within one WordPress installation?

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  • If I had to that, I think I would create top-level categories named Sport, etc. with no posts in them. (This step might not actually be necessary — I’m not sure without trying it.) Then I’d write a plugin that modifies the top-level Sport category listing so that it displays all the posts in the five Sport subcategories.

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