Geeky Weekly » categories http://geekyweekly.com My life as a computer / photo / sound / video game / music / movie / gun geek Sat, 10 Dec 2011 08:23:08 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Tags and Categories http://geekyweekly.com/2008/tags-and-categories http://geekyweekly.com/2008/tags-and-categories#comments Thu, 08 May 2008 00:02:10 +0000 Andrew http://geekyweekly.com/?p=351 Continue reading →]]> Tags have become a big part of WordPress. Back in the day we had categories and that’s it. A user could search the site for keywords, but categorizing a post couldn’t be accomplished without a ton of categories. Recently I added a bunch of categories, reassigned my posts into them and ended up with a lot of categories with only a few posts in them. I had been resisting the movement towards tagging and wanted to hold onto my categories. In WP 2.5 tags have been integrated into the core and it is clear there is a role for tagging.

The main issue I was having with categories is that I was using them to say what a post is about. For example, if I had a post about our wedding, it went in the Wedding category. But once our wedding was over I had like 10 posts sitting in a category that would never be added to. With tags I can place those posts into “Life Stuff” and tag it with wedding. The category becomes a general bucket and the tags describe exactly what the post is about.

I’ve made some theme changes and added a list of tags on each post. I went back through all my posts, recategorized them into my core categories and added tags. Now I have 8 categories and over 100 tags which will be much easier to manage and will keep me from trying to stuff my posts into overly specific categories.

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]]> http://geekyweekly.com/2008/tags-and-categories/feed 2 I Banish Thee Category “Uncategorized” http://geekyweekly.com/2008/i-banish-thee-category-uncategorized http://geekyweekly.com/2008/i-banish-thee-category-uncategorized#comments Fri, 04 Jan 2008 01:00:23 +0000 Andrew http://geekyweekly.com/2008/i-banish-thee-category-uncategorized Continue reading →]]> I went through my posts and found that more than half of them were simply dumped in the “Uncategorized” category that comes with WordPress. I realized that I didn’t like my categories and they were actually obstacles to me posting. I went through and added categories for what I had posted and want to post about in the future. I ditched a few and added catchall categories like “Life” and “Geek” to cover some of those miscellaneous posts. Also any post with a picture I took got stuck in “Photography”. I guess my New Year’s resolution for 2008 is to make my blog more interesting and cover more topics that I enjoy. For example, I love movies, but it seems I haven’t posted once about them. The Movies category is empty and having it there will encourage me to post on that specific topic.

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]]> http://geekyweekly.com/2008/i-banish-thee-category-uncategorized/feed 0 Here we go again, WP Plugin – My Category Order http://geekyweekly.com/2006/here-we-go-again-wp-plugin-my-category-order http://geekyweekly.com/2006/here-we-go-again-wp-plugin-my-category-order#comments Sat, 10 Jun 2006 23:27:42 +0000 Andrew http://geekyweekly.com/2006/here-we-go-again-wp-plugin-my-category-order/ Continue reading →]]> I got quite a number of requests from people asking for a plugin that lets you choose an explicit order for your WP Categories. Geesh, I guess people weren’t content with just being able to set an order for the links and link categories. Check it out at http://geekyweekly.com/mycategoryorder/ or hit the little button underneath my header image that says “WP – My Category Order”.

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