ORGANIZATION METHODS
IN WORDPRESS
Making and Managing Posts and Comments

ABOUT YOUR SPEAKER
 David Laietta
 WordPress Development and Consulting
 Custom Theme Development
 Teaching and One-on-One Training
 david@davidlaietta.com
 @davidlaietta

PAGES
 StaticContent
 Infrequent changes, consistently relevant
 Frequently navigated information
 Do not utilize Categories and Tags
 Good Example: A page with information
about you and your TV blog

POSTS
 Regularly updated content
 Archive for future use/indexing
 Show in RSS Feeds
 Consistently update with relevant content
for users and search engines
 Good Example: Regular blog posts about
the current weeks’ viewing schedule

CATEGORIES
 Internal Structures
 Useful for ordering
via widgets and loops
 Helpful for SEO with
proper permalinks
 Good Examples:
“Episode Recaps”, “TV
News”, “Actor Info”

TAGS
 SEO!
 Internal Searching (Flickr,
Youtube, Gmail)
 Limit Tag Usage -
Relevant, not repeated
 Good Examples: “Sarah
Michelle Gellar, Buffy,
Angel, Joss Whedon”
 Bad Examples: “Buffy,
buffy, buffy the vampire
slayer, vampire slayer”

CUSTOM POST TYPES
 Custom theme
building
 Ease of use for end-
user
 Creates top-level
dashboard navigation
 Multiple levels of
arguments for display
 Examples: “TV
Shows”, “Networks”

TAXONOMIES
 Grouping/Classification
 Based on a single point of
information within a
Custom Post Type
 Not useful for qualities
that are similar/unrelated
 Good Examples: “Actors”,
“Titles”
 Bad Examples: “Season
Number”, “Episode
Number”

POSTMETA
 More Finely Tuned
Grouping
 Useful for additional
queries
 Ability to further sort
while searching
 Not useful for baseline
queries
 Good Examples: “Episode
Number”, “Season
Number”, “Character”

FURTHER ORGANIZATION NOTES
 Hierarchical vs. Non Hierarchical
 Not consistent for all sites
 Not all organization necessary in all cases
 A full site scope is needed to determine
proper structure
 Better to plan ahead accordingly than
attempt to integrate later

COMMENT MODERATION
 Keep Comments From Appearing
Automatically
 Fight Spam and Negativity
 Can Restrict to Registered Users Only
 Restrict by IP or Keywords
 Auto Close by Date
 Hold Comments with links