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3,080 PointsSite planning and navigation best strategy
Subject: site planning and navigation strategy
Hello, Im currently developing a small project of my own called tour.pt (Portugal), I’m still stuck on site planning and navigation so I need someone to shine a light on the matter.
main page: blog featuring latest posts in each category from all cities + a select city option
Should cities be main categories or pages? I assume they will have to be <strong>pages</strong>..
so, tour.pt/<strong>city-1-page</strong> > displays featured posts about city-1, the problem is, I would need a custom menu for this specific page:
where-to-stay | eating-out | see&do | about-city-1 | trivia
because each city is unique and "where to stay, eat and do" options change from city-1 to city-2.
Any thought that might help? p.s. IM USING Genesis
Thanks
1 Answer
Liam Maclachlan
22,805 PointsHey man.
This is never the funnest part of the project :)
Have you thought about setting up each of the top level category (Cities) with a child category of 'featured' that you can manually change as you write a newer post? Then you can simply change the front page to show the posts that are in the 'featured' category.
There is a less maintenance heavy way of doing this and that is with a custom WP loop that will pull the latest blog of each top level category (Cities). If you aren't comfortable with custom WP loops then I would suggest the other option :)
What is the second problem, though? I'm not sure I fully understand. You could use a custom menu that displays a link to the top-level category and then have sub-items of the menu as links to articles based around that city:
- City (top-level category)
- where-to-stay (nested category)
- eating-out (nested category)
- see&do (nested category)
- about-city-1 (nested category)
- trivia (nested category)
Hope this helps. Feel free to ask anything else if I haven't quite got this right :)
Cheers Liam
Liam Maclachlan
22,805 PointsLiam Maclachlan
22,805 PointsCheck these two link out, too. They are great for site planning and keeping in mind the full scope of a project :)
Article - http://www.kaushik.net/avinash/digital-marketing-analytics-ladder-step-by-step-success/
Awesome UX course - http://teamtreehouse.com/library/ux-basics