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Originally Posted by bashfulbanshee
Basically, I want it easy for people to browse for reviewed books that are already archived posts. I know that I don't personally go through the posts in an archived month manually.
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Tagging and using wordpress' categories, which you are already doing, do that for you, although maybe not exactly in the way you want.
The tags/categories are wordpress universal, meaning the tag link goes to a listing of all wp posts (generated from both .com and .org, I believe) with that tag. For instance, click on your tag 'old time radio' in the first post.
The downside of wp.com is your category and tag links in your posts go to the universal wp link, not your own blog. For instance, your category 'Frida Reviewed' link in individual posts isn't linking to
http://fridafantastic.wordpress.com/?cat=54473982 , but when people use any category or tag from your
sidebar to navigate, they'll see all posts from that tag/category from your blog.
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Originally Posted by bashfulbanshee
So I've already done some trope tagging (which you can see at a glance from the tag cloud), but a better way to get picked up by search engines is to also tag the author's name and stuff. If that's the case, then I can't have a trope-only tag cloud. So I was thinking of making a separate page with a title like "Browse by Trope" and just manually put in the links. It would be time intensive every time I post up a review, but if I were to do that now, it would be a lot easier since I only have two reviews up for now and another one coming in a few days.
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You could put the author name as a category, and continue to tag as you have been. That way, on your sidebar, you can add both the tag cloud and a category list/cloud for easier cross reference. If you use really unique tags/categories, your posts will show up together in the universal list anyway.
With the custom menu function, you could also add a menu navigation link to those categories. You could use the category hierarchy function. Eg. Author: author name. Make Author a category (parent category). Make the author name a subcategory (child category) of Author. In the custom menu, make the Author category a nav page.