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22nd October 2010 (1 year ago)
what I am looking to build is a king of review site and I am quite unsure how to do it.
I can#t make up my mind if I should use the normal psot/categories solution or go with custom psot types and taxonomies.
The results should look close to this:
domain.tld/city/suburb/restaurant/italian/ginos-place/ or
domain.tld/city/restaurant/italian/ginos-place/ for places within the city itself without a suburb...
might cause quite a lot of subcategories...
so should I go with categories and subcategories or custom post types?
what I am looking to build is a king of review site and I am quite unsure how to do it.
I can#t make up my mind if I should use the normal psot/categories solution or go with custom psot types and taxonomies.
The results should look close to this:
domain.tld/city/suburb/restaurant/italian/ginos-place/ or
domain.tld/city/restaurant/italian/ginos-place/ for places within the city itself without a suburb...
might cause quite a lot of subcategories...
so should I go with categories and subcategories or custom post types?
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22nd October 2010 (1 year ago)
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Hiya Ovidiu
I don't think it'll make much difference as far as the hierarchy for this project goes. Either can get the job done.
If you plan to use regular blog posts as well I'd recommend using the custom post types just so you can style the reviews (and entry page) independently.
starting with: domain.tld/city/suburb/restaurants/italian/ginos-place/ and custom post types,
that makes city a custom post type, hierarchical to be able to make suburb an entry of the same custom post type. same goes for restaurants. finally ginos-place would be an entry, right?
now I fear it will be quite complicated to be able to browse:
domain.tld/city/suburb/restaurants/italian/ => holds a listing custom post types
domain.tld/city/suburb/restaurants/ => holds a listing custom post types
domain.tld/city/suburb/ => holds a listing custom post types
domain.tld/city/ => holds a listing custom post types
as far as I know there is no built-in way to browse custom post type archives and that is what these are, right?
I found another website that has a similar structure but haven't figured out what structure they use yet: http://plazaa.de/berlin/restaurants/italienisch/zia-maria/ I'd be more than happy with that structure... seems they use categories and custom fields to filter for suburbs...
thanks Ulrich.
I definitely don't need to go that far as to have subsites for what I am aiming at, although I understand that site structure, I mean if they are growing like crazy, they can add more content to their subsites, which I definitely don't need.
Will go ahead and test your suggestion. will be back here if I hit trouble :-)
I think the best structure would be to make four levels of categories for /city/suburb/restaurants/italian/ and ginos-place a custom post type entry.
sorry to bug you again but I just realized that with custom post types/taxonomies the permalink structure is "lacking". Of course I could use an additional plugin to try and solve this but did you mean to use "categories" as in connecting real post categories with a custom post type called "places" or create hierarchical custom taxonomies and use them as categories?
'cause these custom taxonomies won't let me display them as the above examples :-(
Its important for me to create a nice permalink structure here as in the examples above. Any more advice?
I am very interested in finding the developer who did this site. I'm working on a project in the US I would like to utilize this structure and theme for.
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Sales & Support Lead — 22nd October 2010 (1 year ago) #
Hiya Ovidiu
I don't think it'll make much difference as far as the hierarchy for this project goes. Either can get the job done.
If you plan to use regular blog posts as well I'd recommend using the custom post types just so you can style the reviews (and entry page) independently.
Let us know what you decide!
Member — 23rd October 2010 (1 year ago) #
starting with: domain.tld/city/suburb/restaurants/italian/ginos-place/ and custom post types,
that makes city a custom post type, hierarchical to be able to make suburb an entry of the same custom post type. same goes for restaurants. finally ginos-place would be an entry, right?
now I fear it will be quite complicated to be able to browse:
domain.tld/city/suburb/restaurants/italian/ => holds a listing custom post types
domain.tld/city/suburb/restaurants/ => holds a listing custom post types
domain.tld/city/suburb/ => holds a listing custom post types
domain.tld/city/ => holds a listing custom post types
as far as I know there is no built-in way to browse custom post type archives and that is what these are, right?
I found another website that has a similar structure but haven't figured out what structure they use yet: http://plazaa.de/berlin/restaurants/italienisch/zia-maria/ I'd be more than happy with that structure... seems they use categories and custom fields to filter for suburbs...
Developer — 23rd October 2010 (1 year ago) #
http://plazaa.de/ is a multisite install.
http://plazaa.de/berlin/ is a subsite.
http://plazaa.de/berlin/restaurants/ is a category.
http://plazaa.de/berlin/restaurants/italienisch/ is a sub-category.
http://plazaa.de/berlin/restaurants/italienisch/zia-maria/ is a post.
I think the best structure would be to make four levels of categories for /city/suburb/restaurants/italian/ and ginos-place a custom post type entry.
Member — 23rd October 2010 (1 year ago) #
thanks Ulrich.
I definitely don't need to go that far as to have subsites for what I am aiming at, although I understand that site structure, I mean if they are growing like crazy, they can add more content to their subsites, which I definitely don't need.
Will go ahead and test your suggestion. will be back here if I hit trouble :-)
Member — 27th October 2010 (1 year ago) #
sorry to bug you again but I just realized that with custom post types/taxonomies the permalink structure is "lacking". Of course I could use an additional plugin to try and solve this but did you mean to use "categories" as in connecting real post categories with a custom post type called "places" or create hierarchical custom taxonomies and use them as categories?
'cause these custom taxonomies won't let me display them as the above examples :-(
Its important for me to create a nice permalink structure here as in the examples above. Any more advice?
Member — 27th September 2011 (7 months ago) #
I am very interested in finding the developer who did this site. I'm working on a project in the US I would like to utilize this structure and theme for.
http://plazaa.de/ is a multisite install.
http://plazaa.de/berlin/ is a subsite.
http://plazaa.de/berlin/restaurants/ is a category.
http://plazaa.de/berlin/restaurants/italienisch/ is a sub-category.
http://plazaa.de/berlin/restaurants/italienisch/zia-maria/ is a post.
Ulrich, if that is you, please let me know.
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