Site planning and navigation strategy: Stucked

[laurentcastilho]

Subject: site planning and navigation strategy

Hello,
Im currently developing a small project of my own called tour.pt (Portugal), I’m still stuck on site planning and navigation so I need someone to shine a light on the matter.

main page: blog featuring latest posts in each category from all cities + a select city option

Should cities be main categories or pages? I assume they will have to be pages..

so, tour.pt/city-1-page > displays featured posts about city-1, the problem is, I would need a custom menu for this specific page:

where-to-stay | eating-out | see&do | about-city-1 | trivia

because each city is unique and "where to stay, eat and do" options change from city-1 to city-2.

Any thought that might help?
P.S. IM USING Genesis

Thanks

[David Chu]

Bom dia,
That's an interesting and difficult question. It is possible to have a city be a Category, and Posts in that Category (with restaurants or other things in that city) would be visible.

The problem is that if you have many cities, then you have maybe too many Categories, and if you have too many Posts in a Category, you will only see a few of them at once.

Another way to do it would be to have a page, say, Lisboa, and then have sub-pages as its children for Musica, Restaurante, etc. Then you might end up with a lot of dropdowns in your menu. 🙂 So you could use a mega menu if necessary.

So it's complicated! Instead of going crazy with that, you could try a directory plugin like this or this. There are also various entire WordPress themes that are built for directories.

I hope that helps!
Tchau,
Dave

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