Organising Posts with Categories

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  hetherington101 · Member · Sep 5, 2015 at 4:43 pm

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  I need assistance in understanding how to organise my posts for a photography portfolio site, where each post is one assignment (a gallery), with a Home Page front end ”Photo Library style” in a bricks and mortar layout of featured images.

  I need to attach the following types of meta data to each post:

  Priority
  Eg: High, Med, Low
  (Not seen by users, but so I can sort posts to put the better assignments higher on the home page)

  Discipline
  Eg: Location, Studio etc

  Sector
  Eg: Sport, Fashion

  Use:
  Eg: Editorial, Advertising

  I will probably move over to WP.org and get some professional developer help to customise a theme and add a bit of custom code where needed (e.g. the Priority function). For now I need to understand the various ways this could be set up, and which is the best.

  Discipline is not a Parent Category, its a description of what the category is. So its not like having a Food Category, then sub categories Pizza, Mexican etc. Every post will have a category assigned from ALL of the four types above.

  So does this mean a post should simply sit in multiple categories such as High Location Sport Advertising?

  I could have Parent Categories of Disciplines, then within each of those Disciplines have subcategories for Sector, and a sub-sub category for Use. That seems to create an exponential series of child sub-categories. But it would allow me to show all Location Sport Editorial images under one category. Whereas a non-subcategorised menu would not be able to drill down, and only offer

  all

  Location,

  all

  Sport and

  all

  Editorial.

  Have I understood correctly, and is there anything I’ve missed.

  I’m naturally saving Tags for assignment specific terms such as World Cup 2014, Claudia Schiffer, All Day Free Beer (in my dreams)!

  P.S. There’s nothing at my site to look at.

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  musicdoc1 · Member · Sep 5, 2015 at 11:50 pm

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  Hi,

  I need to attach the following types of meta data to each post…

  Metadata is inaccessible on WordPress.com sites. See the relevant response by timethief in the forum topic Where I can add metadata tags for my blog?

  So does this mean a post should simply sit in multiple categories such as High Location Sport Advertising?

  It’s possible to have categories which are combinations of other categories, but certainly not necessary. I’m not sure I understand what you mean, and how you intend to incorporate this idea.

  I could have Parent Categories of Disciplines, then within each of those Disciplines have subcategories for Sector, and a sub-sub category for Use. That seems to create an exponential series of child sub-categories.

  I’m not sure how “Location” or “Studio” are examples of a “Discipline.” Be that as it may, categories, sub-categories, and so on should be organized logically, with as few divisions, and be as simply arranged as is practical.