[Support request] Site architecture

[Andreas]

Hi,
I run a travel website,

having different content wondering what best setup is.

Consider content types;
Travel continent category (listing of all continents)
Travel continent countries category (listing of all countries within a continent)
Travel country category (listing all content for a specific country)
Travel city category (listing all content for a specific city)

How should I think around what should be posts and pages? (pages seem to have less tagging/categorization options?)

[David]

Hi there,

Pages by default only have Page hierarchy options ie. Parent and Child. ( or Parent > Child > Grandchild > etc. )
Which is fine if you want a very linear structure ie. a child can only have the one direct parent.

Whereas posts have taxonomies such as Categories. And a Category can also have sub-categories, and sub-sub-categories etc.
And a single Post can be put inside as many categories as you want.
And for every category that has posts, WP will automatically create an Archive for displaying the posts within.

What is the best structure to use ? Thats the tricky question and you should consider how you want to display the content and how the user will navigate the content.

For example:

Lets use Posts
1. Create a Category Term for each of your Continents.
2. Create a Category Term for each of your Countries and set the Parent Category to Continents
3. Create a Category Term for each of your Cities and set the Parent Category to Countries

You now have a Continent > Country > City structure
And lets say we write a post on Berlin.
We simply select the Berlin Category.

That post will now be visible in the Berlin Category Archive. But you can also find it in the Germany ( Country ) Category Archive and the Europe ( Continent ) Category Archive.

This method means there are more ways to access those posts.

Now for this:

Travel continent category (listing of all continents)

You may want to:

1. Create a Page for each Continent.
2. On each Continent Page add a list of links to each of your Country archives.

[Andreas]

Thanks for clarifying,

would a url-structure with /continent/country/city/berlin be bad from an SEO perspective and ideally only have /berlin as uri?

[David]

I am no expert on SEO. But most recommendations are to keep the URL shorter. As its easier to read and share.

[Author]

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