The document discusses various organization methods in WordPress including pages, posts, categories, tags, custom post types, taxonomies, and postmeta. Pages are for static content while posts are for regularly updated content. Categories and tags help with ordering and search engine optimization. Custom post types create customized content types, and taxonomies further group custom post types. Postmeta allows for additional sorting of content. The document recommends planning an organization structure tailored to each site's specific needs and content.

1. O RGANIZATION M ETHODS IN W ORD P RESS

2. 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

3. P OSTS
 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

4. C ATEGORIES
 Internal Structures
 Useful for ordering via
widgets and loops
 Helpful for SEO with
proper permalinks
 Good Examples:
“Episode Recaps”, “TV
News”, “Actor Info”

5. 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”

6. C USTOM P OST T YPES
 Custom theme
building
 Ease of use for end-
user
 Creates top-level
dashboard navigation
 Multiple levels of
arguments for display
 Examples: “TV
Shows”, “Networks”, “

7. 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”

8. P OSTMETA
 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”

9. F URTHER N OTES
 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

10. T HANK Y OU
 David Laietta
 WordPress Development and Consulting
 david@davidlaietta.com
 @davidlaietta
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