This site attempts to support independent trips with associated blogs for the cities for that trip. That is accomplished through the Conditional Menus plug-in that allows posts and pages to display a different menu based on Categories etc. This page will detail the steps necessary to add a new trip to the site and steps to take when you are on the trip and when you finish the trip.
The steps assume the following plugins are installed:
- The Conditional Menus plug-in
- The Post Order By Category plug-in
- The Folders plug-in
- Build the Categories for the trip
- Add a top level Category with the trip name
- Under that Category add all the cities you will visit
- Add a “Pre-Trip (Next Trip)” Category with a unique slug for this trip
- Add a Food Category with a unique slug for this trip
- Create a static Trip Page that will contain a summary of the trip
- Create a Menu named “Trip Name” with the following:
- A Home item that points to the Trip Page
- A Blog item that will point to high level category for the trip
- A series of additional menus for each city category as appropriate
- The last item should be “Food on the trip” that points to the unique food Category for this trip
- Add a sub-item to the “All the Blogs” primary menu
- Trip page (Add the trip date to the Navigation Label)
- Put the Menu Item at the top of the list
- Using the Conditional Menus plug-in option to “Manage Locations” for The Trip menu:
- Select “+Conditional Menu” and select the name of the new “Trip Name” menu
- Select “+Conditions” and go to the Pages tab
- Select the page the The Trip page
- Then select the Category tag and select all the associated Categories
- Make sure to also select the Top level Category for that trip and the Food Category for that trip
- These Category selections are finicky, so make sure they are correct after saving.
- IMPORTANT NOTES: After making a change to a conditional menu, wait a few minutes before you will see the effect. Also, You need to create a post with the categories in it before it will show up in the conditional categories list.
- The next steps rely on the Post Order By Category Plug-in
- Before the trip edit the top level Category and select “Oldest” for Post Order
- After the trip edit the top level Category and select “Newest” for Post Order
- Using the Folders Plug-in, in the Media section, do *either* of the two approaches:
- Create a Media Folder for the whole trip. This is where all the images for that trip are located.
- Create Media Folders named xxx-city, where xxx is a short 3 letters for the trip name. This is where the images for that city on that trip will be located.
- Create a Folder in the Posts and Page sections (if needed) that will contain associated pages and posts for The Trip
- Move the “The Next Trip” Page into this new folder