More than one Category?

  • Resolved andymason

    (@andymason)


    12 years, 4 months ago

    Hi,
    Got a little navigation question here.
    A site that I am working on needs a homepage menu to take you to country regions, which will be a clickable map, that’s no problem…and there will be a menu on each region for the types of food it is famous for…but

    There needs to be another homepage menu to take the visitor to a specific type of food related to all regions. In other words all the meat or fish posts will be available both as a regional option, or as a collection of all the meat or fish dishes in the entire country.

    Is it right and best to do this with categories and assign each food post to 2 categories. IE:a post about a pork recipe will be assigned to the category for the region and the category for the type of food.

    Will that cause problems in search engines? Is it duplicate content?
    Is there a more elegant way of doing this?

    Thanks
    Andy

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  • vtxyzzy

    (@vtxyzzy)

    12 years, 4 months ago

    Using Categories this way is a common approach to the problem. However, I do know of one potential problem: If posts are assigned to multiple categories, and you view a single post by clicking on its title in a category archive, the ‘Next’ and ‘Previous’ links do not usually ‘stay in category’. Even if they do, you can still ‘jump categories’ when posts are assigned multiple catgories.

    See this article for a discussion of this problem:

    http://wordpress.mcdspot.com/2010/06/02/stay-in-category/

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