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    • ThridHour
      ThridHour last edited by

      I manage a wordpress based site that is needing to under go a site architecture overhaul. the site is christ.org and one of the problems is it has 89 pages but really only 4 are navigatable (not a word apparently).

      The site also has over 400 posts so categories and parent pages are both definitely needed. One option is I convert a lot of the pages into posts, but would that happen to break any links pointing to those pages turned posts? Or another option is to keep the pages and posts and create a bunch of subpages, then I would most likely end up with similarly named categories and top level pages. I would guess the name of the category needs to be unique from page titles right? And not just unique but very much differentiated than any page title (not posts but page titles).

      Maybe what I need to do is convert the pages that are not really unique into posts and put them in the category it fits with. And then keep those that are unique as top level pages.

      The architecture needs some serious work I think 🙂 Any help would be greatly appreciated.

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      • DennisSeymour
        DennisSeymour last edited by

        I would suggest keyword research and planning out how you want them to flow. You will also need to look at your permalinks since you are using wordpress as you might prefer to show the category in the URL

        Easiest path would be to just let the post name be the permalink, excluding categories in the url, then you just move them to their respective categories.

        Take your time and carefully plan everything out first, you will also need to fix the old URLs to point to the new ones so don't forget that.

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