Need some advice, please

  • pschnetz

    (@pschnetz)


    12 years, 11 months ago

    I am in the process of starting a quotes website. I have my quotes ready to go in .csv. I will be using the following fields: Author, Quote, Topic and Tags.

    I have already figured out how to batch upload my very large file (tens of thousands of quotes) using csv-importer plugin in conjunction with Yoast SEO plugin and including the SEO custom fields in my csv file. That part is under control. Here is where I need some help…

    I have been reading about taxonomy, categories and tags and would like some advice. How should I set up my posts? Should the quote be the content, the author be the title? I’m pretty sure that the keywords I extracted (4-6 per quote) I will import as tags. What I am worried about is being SEO friendly and having reasonable to look at and understand URLs.

    I was thinking of creating two tier 1 categories: AUTHOR and TOPIC. Tier 2 under AUTHOR would be one category for each letter of the alphabet and then I would assign the appropriate author to each letter. This way I can easily create an author index on my site…

    The TOPIC category would have about 70 tier 2 topics. Not all of my quotes are assigned to a topic as of yet but I will work on that over time.

    Should I instead create my own custom taxonomy? I really have no idea about those implications…I do know the method of batch importing my csv file is capable of handling custom taxonomies so the option is there. Will custom taxonomies hinder my use of other plugins that are out there (ie, can I still create my author index page per letter of the alphabet?).

    I am just looking for someone with experience to comment because I sort of need to do this correctly the first time I upload. How would you structure this site? I have never used custom taxonomies and am wondering whether this is a good fit or whether the existing categories is good enough for what I need to do…

    Also, on every post I will be showing the tags so that you can click on any tag and it will display all posts with the same tag. I was hoping I could also do the same with the topic category and also the author. If I use the existing categories structure this is automatic, correct? But if I use my own custom taxonomy would this still be automatic or would I need to do some heavy coding (I am not a programmer…)?

    I truly appreciate the advice hopefully coming my way 🙂

    Thanks!

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  • David Choi

    (@wpthemes777)

    12 years, 11 months ago

    I have seen the following methods to tackle the quotes problem:

    1. Title for the quote excerpts, quotes in content, use tag or custom field for authors.

    2. Title for the quotes, no content, use tag or custom field for authors.

    3. No title for quotes (blank), quotes is the content, author is a custom field. There is no single page, only list of quotes. Here is a free theme that does that, Tumbler style:

    http://demo.themezilla.com/?theme=launch

    Scroll down half way and you will se the quote sample.

    4. Using plugins, that only uses custom fields. Something like

    http://perfectspace.com/perfect-quotes-a-wordpress-plugin/

    WPyogi

    (@wpyogi)

    12 years, 11 months ago

    This might be helpful – http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/pods/

    Thread Starter pschnetz

    (@pschnetz)

    12 years, 11 months ago

    Thanks for the input. I already have a theme ready to go. My main concern is how the URLs will look and what my best option is for good SEO.

    If I use the standard categories and tags will the url always be something like http://www.xxxxxxx.com/category/author/william_shakespeare ? If I use a custom taxonomy will the category be removed from the url?

    I am thinking of:
    Quote as content, excerpt as title, author as custom field, and my extracted keywords as tags, my topic as custom field.

    I want to make sure the author name doesn’t get repeated in the url and that it just all makes the most sense it can 😉

    Thanks again.

    I looked at the PODS and that looks awesome and promising, although it also looks like overkill, but I will probably use that since I am just beginning, thanks for that link!

    Moderator keesiemeijer

    (@keesiemeijer)

    12 years, 11 months ago

    If I use a custom taxonomy will the category be removed from the url?

    When you register a custom taxonomy it will take the slug of the taxonomy you registered. Example custom taxonomy ‘quote’:
    yoursite.com/quote/term
    You can also use the “rewrite” argument to have it rewrite to something else: 'rewrite' => array( 'slug' => 'myquote', 'hierarchical' => true )
    yoursite.com/myquote/term/childterm

    http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/register_taxonomy

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