Assign Categories to Comments – HOW?

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    kellemora · Member ·

    Hi Gang

    Although I’m new to this, I’ve read over 60 hours of these forums looking for answers.
    Found most of what I was looking for too, which is good.

    However, I had to completely recreate my blog and add new ones to get things working.

    Rather than explain the things I tried in the past that didn’t work, I’ll say only what I have now.

    The main blog is Lugocu.wordpress.com, it links to a separate blog for the Puzzles, another blog for the Solutions and yet another blog for the Hints n’ Clues. This was the ONLY way we could get the blog(s) to work properly. Using Pages did not work at all for this.

    It took recreating these blogs a total of three times before it worked smoothly.

    However, here is the problem I’m currently facing.

    I cannot find any way to assign Categories to the various Comments.

    For logical reasons, I cannot use the Posts section for public posts as it would interfere with the posting of the daily puzzles, solutions and hints. Therefore I set up a PAGE that is used for visitor posts and comments.

    I know this works because I’ve had ONE comment, but that’s it.

    I do know that we cannot see our own posts when searching Tags, apparently not so when we are using Blogs either, as all I ever get is No New Posts, No New Spam, your lucky.

    I’m using Categories for the POSTS made of the puzzles and solutions. One of those Categories is Sudoku. Since I couldn’t see anything, I asked an outstate friend to join and use the Tag Surfer and put in Sudoku. None of my blogs appeared at all. However, if they did a google search for Lugocu, it came up at the top of the google listing and they could then find my page. They can also find it using the URL to the page lugocu.wordpress.com, but cannot find it using any of the categories.

    This might explain why I’ve had no hits to my page. Surprising considering the popularity of Sudoku these days vs the number of users here.

    My recent announcement (found under comments) without a category, will probably never be seen by anyone.

    In other words, WHAT am I doing wrong here?

    Thanks
    Kell

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    raincoaster · Member ·

    You cannot assign categories to comments, for a start.

    Have you searched for any blog promotion, hit increasing tips? Because you don’t appear to be following any, including leaving properly formatted links. Use the whole URL including http or link your name to your blog on your Profile page under “website”.

    The more esoteric your blog setup, btw, the less accessible by definition and the lower your hits will probably be.

    Your recent announcement will be read by more people if you put the link to it in here, for starters.

    Have you read the other threads (there are several) on blogs not showing in global tag pages?

  • Unknown's avatar
    kellemora · Member ·

    Hi Raincoaster

    Thank you for your reply!

    I’ve read enough to know that you cannot see your own tags in areas like Tag Surfer.

    I have read the sections on promoting your web site and plan to do that after I know it’s working properly, just in case I have to change it yet again a 4th time.

    Doing tag surfing on the word Sudoku normally only brings up blogs in Japanese or Chinese of people trying to hawk books it looks like and one Oriental gal who tells of the puzzles she worked that day.

    As I said, I’m totally new to this type format so knew there would be quite a learning curve for me. I’m 60 years old besides, so have not learned this stuff other than by trial and error methods.

    What they say you should NOT do in the FAQ’s has turned out to be the ONLY way it will work. And what they tell you you should do, don’t work at all.

    For example: They prefer you use Rich Text in lieu of Word documents. I have both options at this end and Rich Text format would not show the grids. Word doc will, but without the highlighting. And apparently we can’t use html either which would make it so much simpler.

    If you looked at my blog, you can see why I don’t want user POSTS on the puzzle pages.
    Although I originally had only the lugocu.webpress site, the three where the puzzles, solutions and hints are shown are done using POSTS instead of PAGES in order to make use of the Categories feature and appear in the Tag Surfer listings. So I do have the original page I could use for POSTS and set that up in the set up area to cause it to open to a Home Page and leave the Post area as the main posting area rather than hidden on a page.

    My son who lives in Florida is fairly well computer savvy, but is not familiar with blogging either. He’s the one who told me that using Tag Surfer did not bring up any of my pages or puzzles.

    He asked me a question that I couldn’t answer too, and that was, “how on earth do you find things on there other than things that are tagged?”

    For example: If I knew someone had a blog but didn’t know what tags they are using, how would you ever find them? Questions like that.

    Do me a favor and let me know if when you type in Sudoko in a tag search if my Lugocu pages show up. If so, then I may just change my announcements from a PAGE to a POST on the main Lugocu page, since it directs folks to the puzzle blog.

    Thanks

    TTUL
    Kell

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