What to do when you want the category page and landing page to be the same thing?
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I'm working on structuring some of my content better and I have a dilemma. I'm using wordpress and I have a main category called "Therapy." Under therapy I want to have a few sub categories such as "physical therapy" "speech therapy" "occupational therapy" to separate the content. The url would end up being mysite/speech-therapy.
However, those are also phrases I want to create a landing page for. So I'd like to have a page like mysite.com/speech-therapy that I could optimize and help people looking for those terms find some of the most helpful content on our site for those certain words.
I know I can't have 2 urls that are the same, but I'm hoping someone can give me some feedback on the best way to about this. Thanks.
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Hmmm.I'm not sure I'm following what you are doing (or vis versa)
You can check out my site if you'd like, and you can see I have big buckets for things (like therapy.) But I have so many posts under that, I need to make them into child categories. But if I do I can't use the url for the main 'landing' page. (If that makes sense.)
I checked out the link you posted and it looks like when I click on one of your category names I'm taken to a page that has a different url. Is there a reason for that? From what I understand it's best to let users know where they are going when they click on a link. Was there a reason you didn't have the url the same as the catagory they clicked on in your menu?
(I'm still learning so forgive me in advance if I'm missing something.)
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Thanks for the reply Lindsay, but that's the problem I'm running into. If I use the mysite/physical-therapy, etc pages for the detailed content page I won't be able to use that url for the categories of the posts. This is a blog so there are lots of posts that go into that bucket. You can check it out here.
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Hi Noah's Dad,
Would a structure like this work?
mysite.com/therapy (discusses therapy in general and introduces each of the three sub-topics)
mysite.com/physical-therapy (detailed content page)
mysite.com/speech-therapy (detailed content page)
mysite.com/occupational-therapy (detailed content page)
Let me know if I've missed the boat entirely.
Lindsay
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I created a similar structure for this site. There's 4 info categories. I enabled 'categories' for pages and assigned each "landing page" to one of those categories. Under the hood those "landing pages" are actually a child of one of 4 parent pages, which never get shown because the categories take precedence over pages.
Then sub-pages are created which do not have categories but have a parent which is a landing page. From there it's just a matter using wp_list_pages to ensure subpages are linked to each other and their parent landing page..
Wordpress is really flexible, you can also look into creating a custom post type that has both hierarchy and archive capability, which is basically what I did above.
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