Structuring a Television Commentary Blog

ORGANIZATION METHODS IN WORDPRESS

PAGES

Static Content

Infrequent changes, consistently relevant

Frequently navigated information

Do not utilize Categories and Tags

Good Example: A page with information about you and your TV blog

POSTS

Regularly updated content

Archive for future use/indexing

Show in RSS Feeds

Consistently update with relevant content for users and search engines

Good Example: Regular blog posts about the current weeks’ viewing schedule

CATEGORIES

Internal Structures

Useful for ordering via widgets and loops

Helpful for SEO with proper permalinks

Good Examples: “Episode Recaps”, “TV News”, “Actor Info”

TAGS

SEO!

Internal Searching (Flickr, Youtube, Gmail)

Limit Tag Usage - Relevant, not repeated

Good Examples: “Sarah Michelle Gellar, Buffy, Angel, Joss Whedon”

Bad Examples: “Buffy, buffy, buffy the vampire slayer, vampire slayer”

CUSTOM POST TYPES

Custom theme building

Ease of use for end-user

Creates top-level dashboard navigation

Multiple levels of arguments for display

Examples: “TV Shows”, “Networks”, “

TAXONOMIES

Grouping/Classification

Based on a single point of information within a Custom Post Type

Not useful for qualities that are similar/unrelated

Good Examples: “Actors”, “Titles”

Bad Examples: “Season Number”, “Episode Number”

POSTMETA

More Finely Tuned Grouping

Useful for additional queries

Ability to further sort while searching

Not useful for baseline queries

Good Examples: “Episode Number”, “Season Number”, “Character”

FURTHER NOTES

Hierarchical vs. Non Hierarchical

Not consistent for all sites

Not all organization necessary in all cases

A full site scope is needed to determine proper structure

Better to plan ahead accordingly than attempt to integrate later

THANK YOU

David Laietta

WordPress Development and Consulting

david@davidlaietta.com

@davidlaietta

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