# Kudos365

> A local community platform based in the Pacific Northwest featuring news, events, businesses, recipes, quotes, photos, and historical events — organized by category.

Kudos365 showcases local community content across Washington state and the Pacific Northwest. Content includes user-submitted posts, curated historical events, local business listings, community news, recipes, and quotes.

## Content Types

- [News & Community](https://www.kudos365.com/news/community)
- [Events](https://www.kudos365.com/events)
- [Today in History](https://www.kudos365.com/today-in-history) — evergreen page showing today's events at a stable canonical URL; browse by date at `/today-in-history/[month]-[day]`
- [Local Businesses](https://www.kudos365.com/businesses)
- [All Categories](https://www.kudos365.com/categories)

## Categories

Categories follow the URL pattern `/categories/[id]-[slug]`. Current categories include:

Art, Auto/Boat/Air, Babies & Kids, Books & Literature, Charity & Causes, Community, [Cooking Recipes](https://www.kudos365.com/categories/961-cooking-recipes), Economy/Financial/Business, Education & Literacy, Environment/Energy/Sustainability, Family, Fashion, Food & Drinks, Gardening, Government, Health Insurance, Health/Wellness/Nutrition/Aging, History, Home & Household Tips, Humor, Jobs & Careers, Life Stories & Memories, Lifestyle, Music, Nature/Plants/Wildlife, Other, Pets, Philosophy & Spirituality, [Photography](https://www.kudos365.com/categories/918-photography), Poetry, Professional Services, Public Interest, [Quotes & Proverbs](https://www.kudos365.com/categories/1086-quotes-proverbs), Real Estate, Reviews & Opinions, School Activities, Science/Tech/Astronomy, Society & Politics, Sports & Fitness, Travel & Outdoors, Wine, World

## URL Structure

### Posts
- Individual post: `/news/[id]-[slug]` — canonical, indexed
- Short URL: `/news/[id]`
- JSON: `/news/[id]-[slug].json`

### Historical Events
- Individual event: `/today-in-history/events/[era]-[month]-[day]--[id]` — canonical, indexed
- JSON: `/today-in-history/events/[era]-[month]-[day]--[id].json`

### Historical Feed Pages
- By date: `/today-in-history/[month]-[day]` — e.g. `/today-in-history/march-26` (indexed)
- By month: `/today-in-history/[month]` — e.g. `/today-in-history/march` (indexed)
- By year: `/today-in-history/[year]-[era]` — e.g. `/today-in-history/1998-ce` (not in sitemap for now)

### Geo Feed Pages (not indexed)
- `/[state]/[city]/[content-type]` — e.g. `/wa/seattle/news/community`

Geo feed pages are canonicalized to their parent and are not indexed. Historical feed pages (date, month, year) are self-canonical and indexable; year pages are simply omitted from the sitemap for now. Individual posts and events remain the canonical content units intended for search and AI consumption.

## API / Structured Data

Individual posts and historical events expose JSON endpoints via `rel="alternate"` link tags. Append `.json` to any canonical post or event URL.

### Historical Event JSON fields
- `id`, `name`, `year`, `era`, `month`, `day`
- `iso-date` — ISO 8601 date including BCE dates (e.g. `-0047-03-26`)
- `precision` — date precision level (e.g. `year-month-day`)
- `description` — full HTML content
- `canonical_url`, `url`
- `breadcrumbs` — Schema.org BreadcrumbList
- `schema` — Schema.org `Thing` with `additionalType: HistoricalEvent`, `temporalCoverage`, publisher, and collection membership

### Post JSON fields
- `id`, `headline`, `type` (e.g. `photo`, `news`, `recipe`, `quote`, `event`, `biography`)
- `content` — full HTML content
- `content_plain` — plain text version
- `description` — meta description
- `published_at`, `updated_at`
- `url`, `short_url`
- `image` — Imgix-optimized image URL
- `author` — name and profile URL
- `likes_count`
- `categories` — array of name/URL pairs
- `schema` — Schema.org `CreativeWork` with author, image, datePublished, interactionStatistic, and subject

## Sitemaps

- [Sitemap Index](https://www.kudos365.com/sitemapindex.xml) — top-level index (referenced in robots.txt)
- [Static & Historical Feed Pages](https://www.kudos365.com/sitemap.xml) — static pages plus month/day feed pages
- [Historical Events Sitemap](https://www.kudos365.com/sitemapindex-he.xml) — individual event pages