Comments on: Why Tags Are Better Than Categories

By: mhg

mhg — Tue, 05 Apr 2011 20:47:32 +0000

Thanks for this article. Best regards from germany

By: Ravi

Ravi — Mon, 04 Apr 2011 08:47:59 +0000

Very Good Article. Thanks JeevanSAthi

By: miketopher

miketopher — Fri, 18 Feb 2011 04:29:44 +0000

ok so i just realized that the post in which i was being redirected to upon using my old permalink url. the permalink itself was message up… errrr.

the post i was redirected was mysite.com/free-content-the-post-name

i must have added the words free-content to the url in the New Post page.. by accident.. um i hope i make sense.. ok well ill get to what matters most….

now i change my permalink category base and when i try to use my old one, i am not redirected as you stated WP now does.. its simply an invalid page… so did they take this option away now? i use wp 3.5.. and it would be nice to auto redirect all links from my old cat base to my new cat base..
thanks! :-p

By: miketopher

miketopher — Fri, 18 Feb 2011 04:03:47 +0000

i had my category base set as i.e / “hello”

so when i go to mysite.com/hello/free-content

i get a list of posts which i posted in free-content category….

i changed my category base from hello, to goodbye. and now when i go to
mysite.com/hello/free-content “my now old cat base”

instead of forwarding me to
mysite.com/goodbye/free-content “my now new cat base”

i get forwarded to
mysite.com/free-content-OneOfThePostsInTheFreeContentCat

not only is my new cat base, “goodbye” not in the url, but there is no cat base at all and it combines the cat “Free-Content” with one of the posts piece of url…. im confused.. any idea?
thanks a ton!

By: Scott Saunders

Scott Saunders — Sat, 23 Aug 2008 22:29:00 +0000

Thanks for the tip. Being new to WP and blogging in general, I just thought categories were the way to go. I will definitely start tapping into tags instead.

By: Northville Real Estate Blog

Northville Real Estate Blog — Sat, 09 Aug 2008 22:34:27 +0000

Categories are better if there is just one writer, if there are multiple writers than tags are more useful in my humble opinion

By: ATHENA

ATHENA — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 22:54:23 +0000

I realized this problem after i blogged for the first month. I think I was lucky to change it right then. I used to treat categories as they were tags… soon after i found it messing up my tag cloud (personally i love tag clouds, i think they act like a charm on a blog, only when they look nice tho)
so i decided to start using my tags well. I used the simple tags plugin like many others. and use the wordpress “tag cloud” template tag to make limits on it so tht it doesnt show all of my tags but only the most used ones! =)
Thx for this post, it makes me feel I did it the right way

By: goldfries

goldfries — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 13:40:47 +0000

I think that whether or not a category would be useful or useless or somewhere in between, really depends on your blog.

I think a personal blog would probably rack up too many categories. I’ve seen blogs with a super huge list of categories and it quite doesn’t make sense already.

On the other hand, on my site the categories are exactly what I write about so it’s all fine and dandy. People would know where to click to find the article they need.

That being said, I’m also looking into implementing tag clouds to add value to the site.

By: TefemodoWhisse

TefemodoWhisse — Sat, 02 Aug 2008 21:56:04 +0000

Very nice!!

By: Dave S.

Dave S. — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 02:13:02 +0000

Interesting article.

I’m not a fan of tag clouds. I find they usually take up too much room and they look cluttered.

Does the wordpress search take tags into account? For example, if I type in a search term that is also a tag, will the search display posts that have that tag?

Thank you for sharing your knowledge on your blog.