Great Power Comes From Using Category Pages for Our Many Child Topics

One of the reasons static web sites are such a pain for new content creation is that you must format the page for your new content, and format again every time you add new content. By using the default functionality of WordPress, we'll see that all we have to do is create the content, images and text. WordPress can take care of all the page creation for us.

In this image, we're looking at a "page," not a post. However, once we create this parent page for "About DemoTown," we will have numerous sub-topics that will not require us to format a page for the content posts. See that I've chosen some sub-topics shown as text links at the top of the page. Attractions, Business, Shopping, etc. They will not be created as child pages. They will not show up in the side page navigation box. However, they will show up in the Category Drop Down box. Why do this? I can get my visitor to these topics with just the two clicks, one to "About DemoTown," and one to the specific link. That's good enough, and it means that I can add new content and have WordPress build my pages for me.

You can use text links to these topics, as I have here, or you can use an HTML button creator to have nice looking button images. It's your choice, but I didn't want to take the time to do buttons for this demo. Check out the real page for suggested text to go with the links. This page is meant to guide the visitor with information about what they'll find at the various links about DemoTown from this page.