Hi folks:

Sorry, bear with me, I'm a newbie trying to learn MT at nights and on weekends, so perhaps my brainpower isn't what it should be... I'd like to use MT, but not so much as a blog but as a really cool, easy to use CMS. The kind that happily spits out HTML pages that are great to spider, great for fast loading, and so on. (I love this already for all that)

Here's my conundrum: I want to build my site like this (I'm making up series names here: and each Article needs to be its own page)

Series: Automoblies
- Article 1
- Article 2
- Article 3 (etc.)

Artichokes
- Article 1
- Article 2
- Article 3 (etc.)

So I set the system to do posts by individual entries (great) and then Catagories. But of course, when I run a "catagory" page, it just appends the initial catagory entry ad infinitum (or so it seems)... I really want/need these to be separate pages, so I can do at least basic search engine optimization on each one.

If I do each "article" as an individual entry - then don't I have to pretty much hand-code a list of them to make up a "catagory"? Preferably, you'd go to Automobiles > Article 2 > and see a list of other Automobile articles automatically updated on the sidebar...?

I'm planning on over 1,000 separate articles in at least 200 different series in the next year - so, I *really* want to get this "right" out of the gate.

Is this possible? Can I get the Catagory thing to spit out the Catagory entries each on a separate page, or...? How would you tackle this?

Thanks kindly for your help,
Ranger

I'm not sure what you mean by this:


By default, the category pages will give you the full text of each entry assigned to that category. You can change it so that it gives you a LIST instead of the full text, if that's more helpful.

But I'm not sure if that's what you are looking for...

Kristine

Hi Kristine:

If that does what I think it does, that would do - how would I accomplish that task?

Thanks kindly for your help,
Ranger

Your category archive page will automatically only give you entries for that category, just use MTEntries. The link for each entry will go to your individual entry.

On the individual archive you will need to use the Related Entries plugin to list the other entries in that category.

Does this help?