Categories vs Tags
Posted on September 9, 2005, by Conor O'Neill, under Blogging, Wordpress.
I’ve been using Wordpress Categories as sort of generic Technorati tags. When I remember, I add some post-specific actual tags. I haven’t really been that clear on the difference to be honest.
Lorelle has a big posting on it. And I’m still confused!
Top-tip: Don’t try reading anything technical after spending your lunchtime installing Oracle and testing ETL tools. Maybe I shouldn’t try setting up an automated backup of a subversion repository this afternoon after all.
I think I’ll just continue to make it up as I go along on this tagging mularky (malarky, malarchi, mullerky???)
Lorelle on September 9, 2005
Categories are created by you in WordPress. Tags are created by Technorati and other tag oriented sites and you manually add them to your site by typing them in or with plugins.
You can have a category called “Widgets, Wires, and Wobbles” which will never show up on any Technorati tag list, but “widgets”, “wires”, and maybe even “wobbles” might be tags.
WordPress automatically sets categories to be recognized as tags. But you can go further and add your own.
Remember, tags and categories are to help people navigate your site and find more and related information. You don’t have to use them, but it can help once you reach the 500 or more post range, increasing navigation options.
Does that help? And try not to do “too” many things that require 90% of your brain for each task.
Can lead to melt down. hee hee