Now into many years of using EE, I’m having a self-created site organization problem.
My site has two weblogs (as EE calls them). One weblog is my “blog” which operates in the traditional blog sense; the other weblog is my site’s editorial columnists who write full-length weekly columns. The weblogs are called: “weblog1” and “writergroup”. It’s all one site. Just two different main “departments” if you will.
My “weblog1” weblog (the normal blog) has several topical categories, like say, “dogs” and “cats” and “bugs”.
My “writergroup” weblog (columnists) is divided into a category for each columnist (“Nancy Brown”, “Fred Green”...). That way, I could easily provide readers with a link to just the columnists as a whole; and furthermore provide readers with a separate “Fred Green” archive, and so on.
Seemed like a good plan at the time!
Here’s the organizational problem:
I would like to be able to further categorize columnists’ columns (in the “writergroup” weblog... each with their own category, remember) into the same categories I use for my blog (“weblog1”) weblog. So for example, say I write a blog entry and categorize it under “dogs”. Then columnist Nancy Brown writes a column in her “writergroup” (category “Nancy Brown”) about dogs. I want to be able to categorize her column under my site’s “dogs” category so I can ultimately show my readers all the blog entries and columns available on my site that have to do with “dogs”.
But I can’t! My “weblog1” categories can’t be shared by my columnists, who are each in their “writergoup” weblog’s separate categories.
So I can’t organize all the “dog” topics under one category link.
So:
Do I need to reorganize my site in some fabulous new way I haven’t thought of to accommodate this? (Ugh)
Am I mentally missing a point or an available EE feature or function?