2 posts tagged "Fly fishing" never appeared in that topic. How come?

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  steveculton · Member · Mar 5, 2013 at 5:03 am

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  Every post I’ve tagged “fly fishing’ has shown up in the fly fishing topic section save for two: Why does that happen? It seems so random.

  Thanks for any insight you can give me.

  Steve

  The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)

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  staff-ozmodiar · Staff · Mar 5, 2013 at 5:05 am

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  Which two posts are they?

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  steveculton · Member · Mar 5, 2013 at 5:14 am

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  “A Good Night for the Five Weight” (posted tonight) and “The Crazy Menhaden three-feather flatwing.”

  Thanks. :-)

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  staff-ozmodiar · Staff · Mar 5, 2013 at 5:33 am

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  It’s not the “fly fishing” tag that isn’t working right. none of the tags for those two posts are found in the topics. For example, searching for Crazy Menhaden doesn’t cause that post to show up and searching for Herr Blue doesn’t make the 5wt article show up.

  The commonality? Both of those posts have a lot of tags and a couple categories, 16 a piece. According to WordPress, that’s too many:

  You are using too many categories or tags. In most cases, there’s no need to assign more than a handful of tags per post. If you use more than 15 tags and categories (total), your posts will not appear on topic pages (because you don’t want to see irrelevant content showing up there, and neither do we).

  http://en.support.wordpress.com/topics/#missing-posts

  And in fact, if you look at another of your heavily tagged posts:

  http://currentseams.wordpress.com/2013/02/24/thank-you-upcountry-sportfishing-and-todays-wet-fly-class/

  …having 15 tags. You’ll see that a search for the tag North Country Spiders (a rare tag for sure) doesn’t return that post in the topic search.

  That having been said, nice blog. Tight Lines.

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  steveculton · Member · Mar 5, 2013 at 5:41 am

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  OK, that makes sense. I want to thank you for taking the time to explain it to me and for your kind words about the blog.

  So, one more dumb question: if I reduce the number of tags on those already published posts, will they show up or am I boned?

  Thanks again!

  Steve

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  staff-ozmodiar · Staff · Mar 5, 2013 at 5:44 am

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  I don’t actually know the answer to that. But I don’t know that you lose anything (in terms of WordPress anyway). You may lose something as far as Google is concerned. But I think I would be tempted to try it and see what happens if it were me.

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  steveculton · Member · Mar 5, 2013 at 5:57 am

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  I did, and we’ll see. I suspect not.

  In any case, you were very kind and helpful, and when I speak of you I shall speak of you well.

  Steve

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  steveculton · Member · Mar 5, 2013 at 6:02 am

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  Hah. Looks like it did work.