Organizing a large site – posts, taxonomies & facets, oh my!

Ever been on Amazon, searched for shoes and then filtered results to show women’s and red? Yep, WordPress can do that.

How do you set up an informational site that has over 700 pages and is constantly growing? How will anybody find anything? By crafting the menu and template pages to show categories of items and allowing the user to filter the results. Through the use of custom taxonomies, template pages with custom queries and a faceted search result, we’ll walk through how a site can be setup so that it can grow and maintain it’s consistent structure. Even if your project only has 70 posts, being able to cross-reference them with multiple terms so that no matter how they look for things, the information will be found, is very powerful.

This session will be useful for site owners, designers, devs and UX people who are looking for new ways to organize content that go beyond endless hierarchical dropdown menus.

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