Sub menu, categories questions

Here’s what I would do in your situation:

About Us: Page
Contact: Page
Products: Category

Once this is set up you can create each product page by adding a new post and associating with the Products category. Each post would contain the following information: “pricing details”, “why product A” and “contents”. For “Location” and “Options Available” I would employ the use of Custom Taxonomies. These can be created by placing the following code into your theme’s functions.php file:

add_action( 'init', 'mf_register_taxonomies' );
add_filter( 'the_content', 'mf_list_locations' );
add_filter( 'the_content', 'mf_list_options' );
function mf_register_taxonomies() {
	register_taxonomy( 'location', 'post', array(
		'hierarchical' => false,
		'label' => 'Location',
		'update_count_callback' => $tax['update_count_callback'],
		'query_var' => 'location',
		'rewrite' => 'location'
		) );
	register_taxonomy( 'options-available', 'post', array(
		'hierarchical' => false,
		'label' => 'Options Available',
		'update_count_callback' => $tax['update_count_callback'],
		'query_var' => 'options-available',
		'rewrite' => 'options-available'
		) );
}
function mf_list_locations( $c ) {
	global $post;
	return $c . get_the_term_list( $post->ID, 'location', 'Locations: ', ', ', '' );
}
function mf_list_options( $c ) {
	global $post;
	return $c . get_the_term_list( $post->ID, 'options-available', 'Available Options: ', ', ', '' );
}

This code will automatically create new inteface panels on you add/edit posts screen as well as automatically display the custom taxonomy terms at the bottom of each post’s “content”.

Hope this helps,
-Mike

mohak.gambhir,

I would refrain from making the characteristics subcategories due to the fact that.

1. Your category interface in the admin section will become cluttered really fast making editing of categories somewhat confusing.

2. If you were to use hierarchical categories, navigation within sub categories can become confusing. I have found that it is best to put only one post in one category, although WordPress supports a many to many relationship between posts and categories, I have experienced small, annoying issues with this in the past therefore I just don’t do it anymore.

IMO, Making the characteristics different pages is a really bad idea. Pages do not fit into the category hierarchy at all and pages are not naturally associated with posts in any way. For best results, please try the solution that I outlined above, I believe that it will solve most if not all of you problems and make it easier for your client to both add new products and develop and understanding for how his website works.

Now each product will have characteristics like location, pricing details, options available, why product A, contents, etc

Saving the Characteristics as Taxonomies allows for easy editing and updating by the client as the taxonomy interfaces display on the page where the client will create or edit a product post.

The characterstics can be visited on different pages by clicking on a sub-menu created individually for each of the products.

This submenu is created automatically for each post that has a characteristic taxonomy applied to it. When a user clicks one of the links that it produces, they will be brought to a page (not a WordPress “page”, but a dynamic page) where you can add a description for the term (location, option, etc). Also, below this description, there will be a list of products that have this term associated.

The client would like to add products on his own later on [is willing to go thru the learning curve]

I believe that my solution outlines the best way for you to execute your scenario with the tolls that WordPress offers by default. In my experience, it is best to try to setup your site by Working with WordPress as much as possible.

Hope this helps to clarify,
-Mike