Motivation
Wordpress offers comprehensive tools for tailoring your content. Categories, for one, allow a reader to focus on content most relevant to him. However, the current category behavior has several shortcomings:
- Requires expertise from the reader (he can't access a "ready-made" blog for his topic)
- Cannot search within a category (or filter by tag, date etc.). This can be referenced in short as no closure.
- Hard to get the RSS feed within a category
- Cannot change blog title when browsing a specific category (to create a look & feel of a dedicated blog)
An alternative approach, opening several separate blogs has other shortcomings:
- Inability to aggregate several topics together
- No single identity for author / subscriber
- No easy exploration of other content offered by same author
Category Sub-Blogs
The solution offered in this plugin is to treat categories as separate sub-blogs. This consists of the following aspects:
- Offer closure while browsing a category: All filtering actions (e.g. searching, filtering by date or tag) only access posts within the currently selected category.
- Following a link from outside automatically selects the relevant category.
- RSS feeds & The blog name change for different category selections.
Specialized Templates
In order to enhance the look-and-feel of separate sub-blogs, it is advisable to use custom themes for your categories. Luckily, this is already a built-in feature in wordress. Read
this.