WordPress.org

1. SCARECROW
   Member
   Posted 5 years ago #

   Hey all,

   I have recently moved my site design in a bit different direction. I have made the site in a more "magazine" style with "editions" which are actually one post, with multiple pages to simulate sub pages.

   There are a few instances where this has downsides, like comments are for the whole edition and not just a singular story in that edition. Also the pages include page 1, which is a sort of intro page to that edition.

   Other than that, I am fairly happy with it - this is my latest iteration of WP dating back a couple of years now.

   Take a run through it and let me know what you think:

   http://toddlambert.com

   Thanks!

   -- Todd

2. Samuel B
   moderator
   Posted 5 years ago #

   I like it a lot. The index is short and sweet :>) and it is very readable. Good job.

3. moshu
   Member
   Posted 5 years ago #

   The design is beautiful, clean, elegant.

   Now I'm thinking aloud: couldn't you use categories for "editions"? I mean you could name your categories 'one, two, three... etc' (and even play with the cat slug) and then define the category base for permalinks as "edition" - so you could end up with:
   example.com/edition/nine or example.com/edition/9
   Just a thought.

4. SCARECROW
   Member
   Posted 5 years ago #

   Thanks for the kind words, guys.

   moshu, you make a good point on the categories... I had thought along those lines once before, but I should probably think about it again, as you may have a point.

5. alainS
   Member
   Posted 5 years ago #

   Nice one. Nothing to add. :)

6. SCARECROW
   Member
   Posted 5 years ago #

   Ok, I have re-thought the methodology a bit more, and decided that the route I was going was not ideal - moshu made a great point - and so now I have re-done things to be based on categories now.

   The only thing I don't like is that I get an extra section in my url structures now - when linking from the "wp_list_categories" based menu - while the actual urls are next to the root domain - toddlambert.com/edition10/

   So I have both toddlambert.com/editions/edition10/ and toddlambert.com/edition10/

   I don't thing that should raise any issues with duplicate content penalties.. but who knows.

   Lastly, I have not found a good method for keeping just the last 5 categories listed for navigation. Using "wp_list_categories" there is no "limit=" so for now, I have to hand-code, using "exclude=" which totally sucks.

Topic Closed

This topic has been closed to new replies.