Title: Archiving Categories Solution
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# Archiving Categories Solution

 *  [amagonagle](https://wordpress.org/support/users/amagonagle/)
 * (@amagonagle)
 * [15 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/archiving-categories-solution/)
 * Hello:
 * Here is what I am trying to accomplish and I am having trouble coming up with
   a solid approach. The site I am working on is a companion site to a print publication
   that mails 6 issues per year (Jan/Feb, Mar/Apr, etc.). The content from each 
   issue needs to be incorporated in the site and archived accordingly.
 * Here is how it should work:
    1. On the home page there is a module that is called“
   Current Issue” with a thumbnail of the cover and 3 links to the “Featured Articles”.
   This is being pulled from a post assigned to “Current Issue”. Below that is a
   link that takes you to a landing page that has a larger cover with all links 
   with excerpts to each post from that issue. Currently I have this in place by
   assigning it a “Current Issue” category and the links are being pulled from posts
   assigned the “Featured” category;
 * 2. I need to have each issue archived by month/year. This is where I am having
   trouble.
 * Should I:
    1. Create categories for each publication month (ie. Jan/Feb) and 
   assign posts accordingly;
 * 2. Create a separate archive page and style accordingly;
 * 3. When posts are no longer in the “Current Issue” remove the assigned category
 * I am looking for any suggestions on best practices for this. I need some ideas
   for a solution that could be pretty simple to maintain, since the editor of the
   publication will be doing the updates. Any guidance or advice is greatly appreciated!

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 * Last activity: [15 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/archiving-categories-solution/)
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