Need Advice Re: New Installation

  • wordpressbear

    (@wordpressbear)


    17 years, 2 months ago

    My biggest problem with WordPress so far is the fact that it doesn’t recognize URL’s with capital letters. For that reason, I can’t incorporate it into my websites the way I had planned to, but I think I’ve figured out a workaround.

    First, I want to reinstall it in a specific directory – MySite/Talk. I will then use it to discuss various topics; e.g. MySite/Talk/Economy, MySite/Talk/Economy2. After a period of discussion, I can then merge and edit the related posts to a permanent location (non-WordPress) at MySite/Topics/Economy.

    Before I take the plunge again, I’d like to ask a few questions. When I reinstall WordPress in MySite/Talk, I assume all the WordPress files will be located there, not in the site’s root directory. If I have to create another .htaccess file for WordPress, will I be able to stick it in MySite/Talk as well, or will it have to be located in the site’s root directory?

    I need to figure out a good strategy for categorizing the hundreds of posts I’ll be making.

    I’ve learned how to create categories, publishing posts at MySite/Topics/post and MySite/World/post, for example. If I install WordPress in MySite/Talk, will I be able to create “subcategories,” with posts published at MySite/Talk/World/post, MySite/Talk/Topics/post, etc.?

    Also, can I use tags to display only posts that match those tags? For example, if I add the tags “World, Spain” to three posts and “World, Japan” to four other posts, would I be able to track down all the posts tagged World (7 posts) or only posts tagged Spain (3)?

    Thanks.

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  • figaro

    (@figaro)

    17 years, 2 months ago

    First, I’m not sure why you would want to use capital letters in a url; regardless, I don’t think that is a wordpress restriction…may be something on your server restricting it…for example, see the site I just installed.

    http://educhalk.org/MyWordPressTest

    I assume all the WordPress files will be located there, not in the site’s root directory.

    Correct…if you install in a subdirectory, that’s where all files will be.

    will I be able to create “subcategories,”

    I’m not aware of a way to do subcategories, but you can simulate this by using categories and tags together…read on…

    can I use tags to display only posts that match those tags?

    Yes, when you tag a post, and then click on a tag, then you only see posts with that tag.

    For example, if I add the tags “World, Spain” to three posts and “World, Japan” to four other posts, would I be able to track down all the posts tagged World (7 posts) or only posts tagged Spain (3)?

    Here is where using tags and categories together come in handy. If you use your categories for general things, like “World”, and use your tags for more specific things like “Spain”, or even “World Spain”, then when someone clicks on the World Category, they will see both “Spain” and “Japan” posts…when they click on the Spain tag, then they only see Spain posts. Of course, you could do the same thing with tags…have one tag called “World” and other tags called “Spain”, “Japan” etc…tag your posts accordingly…remember, you can add more than one tag to a post.

    I do something similar on my site at the link below…I try to keep the categories general and the tags more specific.

    http://educhalk.org/blog/

    Thread Starter wordpressbear

    (@wordpressbear)

    17 years, 2 months ago

    Thanks for the tips. They helped clarify things for me.

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