193 – Organizing Your WordPress Content

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Is there a plugin for that?

With more than 50,000 plugins in the WordPress repository, it’s hard to find the perfect one. Each week, I will highlight an interesting plugin form the repository.

For more great plugins, download my 50 Most Useful Plugins eBook.

This week’s plugin of the week is Types. Types is a plugin that will allow you to easily create custom post types and custom fields for your WordPress site. It can save you adding custom code to your WordPress theme to create a custom post type.

Listener Feedback

Followup to last week’s episode by Robert to share that the plugin Quick Pagepost Redirect Plugin does a great job of redirecting old urls to new WordPress urls.

Organizing Your Content WordPress Content

In today’s episode we dive into the different ways to organize your WordPress content, both on the dashboard side of things and on the front end of your site.

Keeing your content organized makes it much easier for your visitors to find what they are looking for when they come to your site.

Here’s the things discussed in this episode:

• Posts
  • Organized in Reverse Chronological order
  • Categories
  • Tags
• Pages
  • Static content
• Media
  • Reverse order it was uploaded
• Custom Post Types
  • Food Example
  • Soups, appetizers, desserts