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A place to document practices on the wiki and collect issues/suggestions/to-do items for the physical space at DoES Liverpool
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Make the blog posts more discoverable #1141

Open amcewen opened 5 years ago

amcewen commented 5 years ago

The new website that @Helen-8 and @willcrobinson built is a huge improvement over the old one; and rightly has a focus on explaining our services to new visitors.

However, it's nearly impossible to find any of the blog posts which are more than a few weeks old. Once things drop off the "Latest News" links the only option for finding them seems to be the date-based archive links on the right-hand side of the individual blog post pages.

I regularly have to hunt around looking for links to talks/slides about DoES or the financial blog posts. I'd post links to examples, but can't face hunting them down now...

It'd be good to find a way to surface some of this, so I can find things when I want to email a link to someone, and also so that new visitors who want to explore beyond the initial offering can find some of the colour to help fill in what the community is like and show why we're not just-another-co-working-space.

willcrobinson commented 5 years ago

I've set up an archive page for the previous weeknotes (https://doesliverpool.com/weeknotes/) and I've added a link to this page below the most recent posts on the front page. Is that what you had in mind?

amcewen commented 5 years ago

Hehe, thanks @willcrobinson but I think that's almost the exact opposite of what I'm after :-D I'd like a way to be able to browse through the posts-that-aren't-weeknotes - there are far fewer of them, but I think they're more useful in the long-term for people to look at (posts about the finances that @johnmckerrell writes; the slides and notes from my Festival of Maintenance talk about how we use github; etc.)

willcrobinson commented 5 years ago

I think tags might be the answer - I've added a page to the site (https://doesliverpool.com/weeknotes/tags) that lists all tags. I've not linked to this page from anywhere as yet. If we can get into the habit of tagging all posts to the site then this should make finding old posts really easy.

willcrobinson commented 5 years ago

Looking to change the Weeknotes page so that it just shows the title, date and categories. Could also add descriptions to each of the categories on /weeknotes/categories/.