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The Difference Between Pages and Categories

by Martin on 26 August, 2009

in Wordpress

Here’s an interesting question I saw today: what’s the difference between pages and categories in WordPress?
Categories and pages are both powerful elements of WordPress, but they’re very different.
One is part of the WordPress filing system, the other is for displaying important (but static) information to your visitors.
Here’s the answer I offered:
Discover different ways to get [...]

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How to Use Tags To Keep Your Readers

by Martin on 18 February, 2009

in Internet Marketing

I wrote a post here about the difference between categories and tags but, when I reviewed it this week, I found that it’s incomplete.  So here’s an update.
In that post I talked about categories being like filing cabinets, containing all your posts on a given subject area.
What I didn’t say, and should have, is that [...]

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How to Use Wordpress Categories Creatively

by Martin on 12 February, 2009

in Wordpress

I came across an unusual question this week:  The questioner wanted to know how to assign blog posts to specific pages that would be displaid in the blog menu.
Their blog is a cookery blog and they wanted to be able to write a post that would be (for example) an Italian recipe, and allow searchers [...]

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The Difference Between Categories And Tags

by Martin on 25 August, 2008

in Wordpress

Another question I’ve seen quite often in the forums recently is about the difference between categories and tags.
These are mostly asked by people blogging on Wordpress, so I hope a simple explanation here may help.  This post is focused on Wordpress, but the logic would still apply for other blogging platforms that offer both tags [...]

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