Two Entry Points to WP?

  • Harvey

    (@harvey)


    20 years, 9 months ago

    Difficult to put this question.

    My site is here, http://www.otsumamimusic.com.

    The 4 posts you see on the front page are of music events happening in West Japan and is always kept up to date with 4 events in the future every 2 weeks.

    In the future, I would like the page to also feature events in East Japan.

    However, generally speaking, vistors who want to see info on West Japan don’t want to see info on East Japan (because they cant attend anyway) and vise versa.

    I would like, to be able to have say… 8 posts available. And if the users clicks “East Japan” they will be shown the 4 posts in order that are about East Japan. If they click West Japan, they will see the 4 about West Japan.

    I am currently using categories to sort the type of music event. Jazz, Rock, Pop,whatever.

    I was thinking maybe if I used the categories to organize the location fo the event instead… this might work.

    Any other ideas?

    I guess I could set up 2 wordpresses… one for each category… but there must be a better way!

    Thanks for any help

    -Harvey

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  • tomhanna

    (@tomhanna)

    20 years, 9 months ago

    You can have more than one category per post, so it’s not an “either or”. You can leave the Jazz, Rock, Pop, etc. and just add East and West. Then for each post you pick two categories, one for location and one for type of music.

    You might consider making a main category called Location with subcategories of East and West and a main cateogry called “Type” or something with subcategories of Rock, Pop, etc.

    Or, you could make categories of East and West with subcategories for each type of music.

    tomhanna

    (@tomhanna)

    20 years, 9 months ago

    If you set up the type of music as a main category and the location as a main category with subcategories, you could use wp_list_cats to make a menu item called “Type of Music” and another menu item called “Location”. There’s a feature called “child_of” that lets you only show categories that are under another category.

    child_of
    (integer) Display only the categories that are children of this category (ID number). There is no default.

    http://codex.wordpress.org/Template_Tags/wp_list_cats

    So, if Location was your category 1, you could do this:

    <h2>Location</h2>
    <?php wp_list_cats('child_of=1'); ?>

    Then if “Type of Music” was your category 2, you would do this:

    `<h2>Type of Music</h2>
    <?php wp_list_cats(‘child_of=2’); ?>

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