Alternative to Archiving Posts – Follow Up
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I sent the following message on June 11 and received no follow up, so I am still hoping for a resolution to the following issue:
I use my relationshippsych blog to run a class blogging assignment (a university psychology course). From February to May 2016, my Spring 2016 course blogged. In September, my Fall 2017 course will also be blogging. I would like to keep the same URL (i.e., not have to change the URL or make a new blog everytime I do this assignment), but I would like a meaningful way (besides date?) to separate the posts. In retrospect, I could have created a Spring 2016 tag, but this has passed. I don’t want to just delete the posts, because a) I want my students to retain access to their work, and b) I’d like to be able to link to great examples, but they do not need to be as easily accessible as current posts.
From my searching, it appears there is not an ‘archive’ function that would save this chunk of posts as separate from the new incoming posts. If I am right about this, do you have any alternative recommendations using other WP functions that would serve the same purpose?The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)
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I have been thinking about your post. Your instinct to create a tag (or a category) seems right to me.
Start now! Create a category for the upcoming course – Fall 2017. Then create a menu item for Fall 2017, following the description of this process in this document on category pages:
https://en.support.wordpress.com/category-pages/
All posts assigned this category will appear on the Fall 2017 Page – and can be located via the menu item. If students actually write posts, just train them to add that category. They will still be able to use the tags as they have previously.
You can then treat your previous posts as you have in the sidebar widget or use the archives shortcodes to group together your previous posts.
https://en.support.wordpress.com/archives-shortcode/
You can create menu items for your archive pages.
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Thank you so much for your recommendation! I really like the category pages suggestion for going forward – an easy way to access current term posts, without unlinking them from previous posts in terms of thematic categories.
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