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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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 [...]
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