From the course: WordPress Developer Tips: Information Architecture and the Template Hierarchy

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What is IA and the template hierarchy?

What is IA and the template hierarchy?

This WordPress developer tip revolves around two key terms in web design and in WordPress development. IA and the WordPress Template Hierarchy. So before we dive in, let me explain briefly what these two terms mean. IA is shorthand for information architecture. If we ask Wikipedia, information architecture is the structural design of shared information environments, the art and science of organizing and labeling websites, intranets, online communities and software to support usability and findability. This is all a really fancy way of saying information architecture is the drafting out of the structure of the website and its content. Meaning before you create any content you should draw a diagram that shows each of your pages or each of your pieces of content. And draw lines between them so you can clearly see how each page relates to the other. And see the pathways your user will go through when she goes from one page to the other. And that way you can ensure that if a user lands on…

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