Hi guys, Right now I'm facing a problem which I cannot solve by myself. Perhaps you've been in the same boat and would like to advice me what to do. I am running a general music blog in wordpress with the latest news in the industry. I've created many categories (mainly artists). Now I have the idea to create a mini-fansite for a specific artist. I've named it as a category "artist x fansite". When clicking on the "artist fansite x" I would like to appear 5 different categories related to this artist for e.g. category: artist x music category: artist x tourdates category: artist x news etc. Problem is that all the other categories appears in the sidebar in this specific created "artist x fansite" category. What do you guys suggest me to do in order to have a mini-site like described with specific categories related to the artist x page? My thinking was to just hide the categories in the category ("artist x fansite"). Or am I thinking with huge side road and is there a better solution for this purpose? Thanks in advance! Oh, and by the way! I've found a couple of hide categories plugins, but none of them were able to hide categories in a specific category, it just can hide the general categories through the whole wordpress blog. (as far as I could try it)
You could always use the multisite option and have this new fan site completely seperate admin-wise from the rest? If you'd rather keep the admin for both together, you could also use the relatively new custom taxonomy feature to make essentially a seperate categories list. The default "categories" widget wouldn't display these but if you can find your way through a tutorial for setting them up in the first place you can probably handle the code to make them show up in your sidebar If you're leaning toward the second way, this is about the best tutorial I've found on the subject so far http://net.tutsplus.com/tutorials/wordpress/introducing-wordpress-3-custom-taxonomies/
Categories can be nested below the primary category and you can tell wordpress not to display them by modifying your template. The bigger problem is that your site navigation will be come so deep that they may not be found by search engines or people. You would probably be better off just creating a subdirectory on the same domain then linking to that subdirectory which would contain it's own WordPress Installation for that artist.