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Hi friends 👋🏻

This week I'm shining a spotlight on a brand new Resource Library I launched for the team at Listen4Good.

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How to organize your mountain of content

So many nonprofit websites are home to a MOUNTAIN of content that is difficult to access and explore, especially when the starting point is an archive page that shows ten results and "Page 1 of 59" at the bottom. Who's going to start paging through 59 pages of articles, looking for that resource they remember seeing a few months ago?

I rebuilt the Listen4Good website last year, and at the time, we saved a full refresh of the Resources section of the site for a "phase 2" project, to tackle after launch.

In the past, resources had been created as either “Insights” (long-form blog posts), “Feedback 101” items (shorter, educational blog posts), “Feedback Stories & Videos”, “Case Studies”, or “Publications”.

Each of these content formats had its own custom post type in WordPress, and separate page layouts, a setup that introduced a lot of unnecessary complexity.

In this phase 2 project, we combined all of these post types into a single “Resource” post type, and used a set of custom fields and taxonomies to ensure users can still filter and search by topic or content type.

Finally, I built a new Resource Library interface to bring all this content together, with a dynamic Search & Filter panel designed to allow users to explore the library and locate relevant resources.

Take a look at the demo below to see these search and filter components in action:

If your website has a mountain of content that needs a new layer of organization, perhaps you could use something similar?

Until next time ✨

— Ed Harris (your digital strategy guide)

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