The articles listed below cover ways to make the best use of tags in WordPress. Click the headline to read the full article.
I just spent a full day reviewing and rationalising the tags on this site – and reduced them from 82 to 49. Here’s why: Categories and Tags are WordPress’ filing system and, as anyone who’s worked in an office will tell you, having a good filing system is crucial to being able to find important [...]
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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:
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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, [...]
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WordPress categories and tags are important tools that should lead readers to related articles, keeping them on your site for longer. And, used properly, they can be important SEO tools. Here’s what they are and what they do: Categories Categories are like filing cabinets. Typically you would set up one or two categories when your [...]
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