CptnJack

Yeah, it does make sense… unfortunately. So let’s attack this from a different perspective then. I think I’ve made the same error here that the people I support make to me. That is, telling me what solution they think they need instead of telling me what the problem is so I can come up with a solution.

You know my end result, maybe in 6 months or so, is to have some pages (that are now the main content) in a menu item and have the new content be the pages and posts I want people to see immediately. Let me get a little more specific. Maybe if you understand the situation, you will see a better way to do this.

Let’s say I have a site dedicated to training managers. You have to login to get to any of the content and once in, you have 10 or so pages that serve up the content. The training is for managers. The managers register and then go through the topics. The front page says “manager’s training”

Enter in the cart before the horse…

Now lets say I want to train workers instead because the managers aren’t ready, and they won’t be for about 6 months. I want the workers to be able to hit the main site at domain.com and basically see some different things, all new content (so I won’t make this mistake again). I’ll have menu items for training “warehouse,” “accounting,” “marketing” and “managers” as an example.

The final outcome is to have a welcome page, maybe with time pertinent information (posts) on a front page like “upcoming employee holiday Friday April 18th” or whatever. There would be a training menu with submenus for warehouse, accounting, marketing and managers” (but I would leave the managers menu turned off for a few months)

What I did was build a site for a specific, higher level group and now I want to expand it to a lower level group and hide the higher level content until it’s ready to be used. When I say hide, it’s not sensitive information, it’s just not pertinent right now. So by hiding, even putting it in an area with no links called managers would work, if it’s stumbled upon, it’s not the end of the world.

So that’s the problem, the solution doesn’t really matter to me, as long as the end result is achieved. So I guess the question is really: What the best way to achieve this outcome?