A little long perhaps (sorry) but - 'why Wordpress in not the perfect CMS, out of the box'
My site began in 2003 as a 3x per year magazine, a collection of articles in Spring, Summer and Autumn - all was (naturally) html. In 2004 I added a (blogger) 'diary' for things outside those defined timeslots. In 2005 I self-installed wordpress and kept it in a separate directory, in 2007 I started the process of delivering the 'magazine' also through wp.
Pages have hierarchical organisation - no problem I thought. The hierarchy is (eg):
Parent - Summer 2007 (http://www.burgundy-report.com/wp/index.php/summer-2007/)
child -->Article 1
child -->Article 2
child -->Article 3 etc.
My homepage is still html (for now) so Summer 2007 remains a top-level page.
This is fine when you have a small number of pages, but now i have over 200. Articles fall into similar categories, eg regional profiles, or producer profiles, but I can't list them ouside of the article hierarchy because you can define only one parent.
Enter the plugin page-category-plus. Assigning a category to pages meant that I could deliver a page like this: http://www.burgundy-report.com/wp/?page_id=6037 Unfortunately that list is now static as the plugin doesn't work with wp 3.0 (needed for new taxonomy pages). The author no longer supports its development.
Can anyone come up with function to deliver categorising options for pages, or is there a real wp or hybrid approach to pages with multiple hierarchies?
Thanks for listening
Bill
(wp.3.0-alpha, hybrid 0.71, skeleton)
