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by geoff tims

Posted: 3 years ago 7 replies

WEB DESIGN

Hi, i am trying to sort my site out and have come across problems

Two pages I am trying to sort out is the following

https://www.in2town.co.uk/skegness-lifestyle-magazine/

https://www.in2town.co.uk/skegness/

The first one is a page and the second one is a category. I want to add five areas of lincolnshire on my site so they are unique, but i am not sure if i am doing this right as i am seeing my category and my page having some of the same content.

Have i set up this page wrong. should i be having the skegness page as a category page only, or have i done it right

#category #pages

Monetize

3 years ago

Originally Posted by geoff tims

Your site looks really nice and you have done
a great job.

In WP, you have pages and posts. Categories
are where you place your posts into, and you
can place a post into more than one category
which is probably why you are seeing the
same posts multiple times.

The Newspaper theme might be adding to
the confusion.

To setup the five areas of Lincolnshire I
would create child/subpages under the
main Lincolnshire page.

Here's a couple of links to WP tutorials. You
could also watch some YouTubes on this.

https://www.wpbeginner.com/beginners...s-in-wordpress

https://www.wpbeginner.com/beginners...e-in-wordpress

Thanks
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geoff tims 3 years ago

thank you so much for this. I employed someone to help with the site and they made a complete mess of it, so i am trying to sort everything out. I had to totally redesign the site and start from scratch. my problem I am concerned about is duplicate content and the way it is found in Google.

I added manchester as a test to the site

when you search for it, you get the category page https://www.in2town.co.uk/manchester-news/

and you get the main page which is the correct page https://www.in2town.co.uk/manchester...tyle-magazine/

what I am saying is, is this ok, or should i not have https://www.in2town.co.uk/manchester-lifestyle-magazine and instead just have the category page, or am i doing things right
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- geoff tims 3 years ago
  
  here is another example
  
  this page here is a page for london https://www.in2town.co.uk/londoner-magazine/
  
  then this is the category page which i tried to design like the page above. https://www.in2town.co.uk/london/
  
  So, i am just wondering which way i should be doing it before i add more places for lincolnshire. should i just have the category showing as the page under the menu for say like lincoln, or should i be doing it like i have been doing it where i have a category and also a page
  
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Monetize 3 years ago

The problem with hiring WordPress developers
is that some of them don't know what they are
doing, leaving us to fix things or hiring someone
else.

You probably need to outline your site on paper
and hire another developer to set all of that up
for you. That is what I would do.
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Andy Charles Poenas 3 years ago

is it wordpress? CMS ? or ordinary web design with manual ?
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akheerabhuuta 3 years ago

can someone suggest that Wordpress hosting is best choice or not? Olehana arabic
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- Chandana Raghunath 3 years ago
  
  This would depend on your use case - WordPress comes with free hosting for all of their plans and the amount of storage varies with each plan. I use Business Plan in most of my WordPress websites and it comes with unlimited Storage. I haven't had issues with their hosting services.
  
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