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Wedding website structuring headache help warriors

by dubhlinn
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Hi Guys,

Looking for a little direction with a WP site.

I am about to start work on a large wedding magazine themed website using WP for a friend. The Site will bring tips and ideas for DIY Brides. I would really like to set this up correct first time around making correct use of pages, categories & tags.

My issue should i create many pages and sub pages to cover the main topic areas of the site?
(Reason i ask this is, I would like to remove the category slug in the url like site.com/category/tabletop-arrangements/) Getting a lot a conflicting inforamtion on the best approach to this.

Or go with categories for the related main pages.
The plan is that she will be able to just log into the CMS and create a post and either just click the correct category and tags if needed.


Example Parent Page : The Wedding Event
Example sub page: Venues
Example sub page: Vendors
Example sub page: Favors
Example sub page: Tabletops

Having a major brain fart on this one as i just went and created 48 pages including subs. I have created a mirror replica of categories 48 again.

Using the Genesis theme/framework if that helps. Should i no index the tags or categories or both? So that they will not end up outranking the content? Some folks here recommend different actions for this??

Your thought's help and tips are appreciated.
#headache #structuring #warriors #website #wedding
  • Profile picture of the author arpitagarwal82
    Instead of using subpages, create a well structured category list.
    Create limited numbers of parent categories and then several child categories.

    Use noindex for categories and tags initially. Once you have added a lot of content for each category and tag, make them visible in search engines (i.e. remove noindex ). Also display excerpt (instead of full post) in tags and category pages.
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    • Profile picture of the author wayne71
      @arpitagarwal82, very good point. However, I don't understand the reason behind setting and unsetting, noindex. Can you explain that to me.

      @dubhlinn, Wordpress documentation suggest that you use /%year%/%postname%/. So your url will look this way www.yousite.com/2012/your-blog-post/.

      Also, the way I picture this is you having these categories in the navigation (I could be way off). However, it that is the case, then, when the authorized user logs in and creates or edits a post then they can assign it to the appropriate Wordpress Category. So when someone clicks on the Category that are now the menu links, the visitor to the site will see all of the posts associated with that particular category.

      Make sense?
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  • Profile picture of the author JRat
    Thanks arpitagarwal82! This actually answered a question I had too about SEO and blogs.
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  • Profile picture of the author mgreener
    arpitagarwal82's suggestion is good.

    Create each category and then drill down, for example.

    Category a
    related topic a1
    related topic a2
    etc

    Category b
    related topic b1
    related topic b2
    etc

    Category c
    related topic c1
    related topic c2
    etc

    Make sure that each page/post is only listed in 1 category, no more.

    Also, assuming that you want your site to be more long term, don't use the /%year%/ in the permalinks.
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    • Profile picture of the author outwest
      Originally Posted by mgreener View Post

      arpitagarwal82's suggestion is good.

      Create each category and then drill down, for example.

      Category a
      related topic a1
      related topic a2
      etc

      Category b
      related topic b1
      related topic b2
      etc

      Category c
      related topic c1
      related topic c2
      etc

      Make sure that each page/post is only listed in 1 category, no more.

      Also, assuming that you want your site to be more long term, don't use the /%year%/ in the permalinks.
      heading towards a silo structure it seems
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      • Profile picture of the author Istvan Horvath
        Originally Posted by outwest View Post

        heading towards a silo structure it seems
        Every well organized content (read: properly categorized content) in WP is - by default - the closest thing to a silo structure as it can be.

        Just need to remove the link "leakage" from it and you are good to go.

        People just like to over-complicate and mystify the simple concepts :rolleyes:
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  • Profile picture of the author outwest
    permalinks should be set to custom

    /%category%/%postname%/
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  • Profile picture of the author shantanu
    can you show one basic format of your website which you are ON
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