What is the best way to create blog series?

  • Jaja..

    (@jaja-1)


    12 years, 5 months ago

    Hello guy is need some advice..

    I’m busy creating a new blogging website and was wondering what is the best way to create a series structure.

    This structure is what i like best and would like to keep.
    —
    example.com/ (homepage)
    example.com/about (all pages)
    example.com/2011/11/post-name (all posts)
    —

    I would also like to bundle some blog posts together because i’m planning about writing one post every 2 or 3 days.

    Lets say i create 5 different blogging series that will all get around 10 to 25 blog posts attached to them. Every blogging series will be a step by step training, thats why i would like to bundle them and need a smooth navigation to follow up the posts 1 Next post –> 2 –> 3 –> 4

    Other then writing blog posts attached to blogging series would also like to keep the option to post a normal blog post or Aside blog posts once in a while.

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    At this point a was thinking of making one Custom Post Type and calling it SERIES, this way i keep the regular POSTS (admin menu option) for posting normal and Aside blog posts.

    Only one problem i face right from the start.
    When registering the SERIES Custom Post Type i face the URL problem.
    example.com/series/first-blogging-series (all series posts)

    I don’t like the series slug in the url. Yes i can delete-/hide it but i don’t get back my date /2011/11/ permalink format.
    This is what WordPress really needs when you have a (bigger) blog with lots of blog posts (performance reasons)

    What could i do best?

    I don’t mind creating a custom page template for listing all blog posts from a single blogging series.
    Maybe this way i could hide the category page?

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  • esmi

    (@esmi)

    12 years, 5 months ago

    Why create a custom post type? Why not simply file these posts under specific categories and add category RSS feed links to the category templates to allow people to subscribe to them?

    Thread Starter Jaja..

    (@jaja-1)

    12 years, 5 months ago

    I was thinking of having total control about the page lay-out too, give each blogging series a different feel-/touch.

    And with Custom Post Types i can add new template files with unique code like [ this blog post is part of <?php code; .. ?> series ] and some other intro’s.

    This way i could group all posts nicely together (also inside the admin) and use one category ID to force the Next & Previous navi. to stay on the current blogging series.
    If you add a second category or a few different categories to a number of blog posts inside one blogging series the next & previous navi. fill find some kinda ‘backdoor path’ because of the different category ID and jump to some other blogging series or category post.

    I really love this Next & Previous navigation that comes with WordPress but it’s very difficult to control. Because if you use the category ID to exclude some ID’s to force this navi. to stay on one series, you will lose the entire category function.

    I wish we could make our own Next & Previous navi. to a blogging series and add pages to them just like the Menu options works inside WordPress. Create new menu – Drag&Drop pages to the list and add them to a blogging series.

    probably i’m thinking too difficult about this.

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