The power of taxonomies for better websites [EN] - Ralf Wiechers

WordCamp Athens 2019

Great websites are made of great content. Over time more and more posts, pages and other content types are added to the website. Making it harder and harder to manually connect one content part with other relevant related details.

WordPress for a very long time is providing a very stable system to connect posts to topics. This topics create matching webpages or even content if done right.

Learn with Ralf what taxonomies are and how you can use them to create richer webpages that autoupdate related content.

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1. Ralf Wiechers @drivingralle WordCamp Athens // 18. May 2019 The power of Taxonomies for better Websites
2. Hello Athens! Καλησπέρα
3. Ralf Wiechers @drivingralle
4. NomadLife since 2014
5. Remote & CoWorking for the win
6. WordPress Consultant Cross Media Cloud Chief Technology Officer HomeSweetHome.Travel
7. Professional WordPress since 2010
8. Easy-of-use Plugins Themes Taxonomies Post Types I18n Ecosystem Community WP Super Powers
9. Taxonomies
10. τάξις, taxis Order Arrangement
11. Grouping Classification Taxonomy
12. Grouping of Website Content
13. Blogposts Products Team-Member Grouping of
14. Local news Product Niche Team Groups of
15. Categories Post Tags
18. one Term one Group
19. n Items one Term
20. Categories Work Hobby Family Taxonomy Terms
21. a Connection a Detail a Term
22. Price Author Publisher ... Book Review
23. Taxonomy Metadata
24. Author Publisher Genre Shared details
25. Price Page count Sold edition Individual details
26. Filter by Sort by Taxonomy Metadata
27. Taxonomies are Groups of items with a shared detail
28. Taxonomies in WordPress
29. Categories Version 1.0 // 2004
30. Post Tags Custom Taxonomies Version 2.3 // 2007
31. Custom Menu Some Improvements Custom Post-Types Version 3.0 // 2010
32. Term split Nerd stuff ; ) Version 4.2 // 2015
33. Custom Menu wait wait!?
34. Public true false
35. Categories Post Tags Post Formats public
36. [...]/category/{term} [...]/tag/{term} [...]/type/{term} is_archive
37. nav_menu link_category privat/ hidden/ none-public
38. Internal details Technical helper Advanced use-cases privat/ hidden/ none-public
39. Coding required privat/ hidden/ none-public
40. Categories Post Tags
41. hierarchical: true Child-Terms
42. Categories Work Hobby |- Gardening |- 3D-Printing Family Taxonomy Terms
43. n Post Types one Taxonomy
44. Departments Retail Research Production Team Member Taxonomy Terms Post-Types
45. Departments Retail Research Production Team Member Blogposts Jobs Taxonomy Terms Post-Types
46. public vs. hidden hierarchical vs. flat n Post Types Taxonomies
47. Speed Robustness Expandability Benefits
48. Nice theory!
49. Rank your Archives SEO Hack
50. add a description
53. More content. More fun. CMS
54. Change once. Update everywhere.
55. Power to the content people!
56. Archives are Landingpages
57. Entrypoint about a Topic
58. Jobs Blogposts Team-Member Retail related
59. MENU A Company Website Topic: Retail Aliquam tincidunt mauris eu risus Read more Vivamus vestibulum ntulla nec ante Read more
60. MENU A Company Website Topic: Retail Aliquam tincidunt mauris eu risus Read more Vivamus vestibulum ntulla nec ante Read more Blog- Sidebar
61. MENU A Company Website Topic: Retail Aliquam tincidunt mauris eu risus Read more Vivamus vestibulum ntulla nec ante Read more Topic- Sidebar: Retail
62. MENU A Company Website Topic: Retail Our Retail Team Shop-Finder Love Retail? We are hiring! Aliquam tincidunt mauris eu risus Read more Vivamus vestibulum ntulla nec ante Read more
63. MENU A Company Website Topic: Retail Topic-Ad: Retail Topic-Top: Retail Topic-Bottom: Retail Aliquam tincidunt mauris eu risus Read more Vivamus vestibulum ntulla nec ante Read more
64. Templates taxonomy-{taxonomy}-{term}.php taxonomy-{taxonomy}.php taxonomy.php
65. Widgets Sidebars Customizer
66. Teamwork Make a concept
67. Do it early.
68. 3 Product Categories 930 Bookable Items 17 Custom Taxonomies Home Sweet Home
69. Region Feature Travel Type ... 17 Taxonomies
70. Filter your dream
71. 4 Details 1 Click
72. Country Island Region Municipality Hierarchical
73. hsh_get_country hsh_get_island hsh_get_region hsh_get_sub_region Getter
75. Single view Checkout E-Mails Same Same
76. Widgets everywhere
77. But Gutenberg
78. One day! Not yet.
79. Backend UI
80. Backend UI Templates WP_Query Use WP Core
81. Plugin Developer Handbook Read more
82. Start grouping your content! Now you!
83. Questions? What ... ? Can ... ? Do ... ? @drivingralle
84. Thank you! Ralf Wiechers @drivingralle Cross Media Cloud HSH Stay