Categories, Tabs, and Sub-categories.
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I am new to WordPress blog and am trying to understand how to use some of its structural features.
My blog is hhservicco.wordpress.com with theme “Digg 3 Column”. I am trying to figure out the following.
I want to have tabs across the top (as now) and figured out that these tabs correspond to “Pages” in the dashboard.
Q1) Am I right that each tab limited to one post? Where if I want to have subtopics show under that tab I edit them on to the page, or link to <more>?
Q2) Is there a relationship between categories and the tab/pages? I note that the tabs are across the top and categories are down the left column. Yet both tabs and categories can form types of information into groups. What can be said about the different purposes of tabs and categories?
Q3) I added a sub-category to one of my categories and it did not show up in the category list in the left-hand column of the blog. What do sub-categories do and how to what purpose can I put them?.
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Please read the FAQ entry titled “Pages and Posts”. They are different things; the tabs correspond only to Pages. Pages cannot be categorized/tagged.
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Of course raincoaster means the tabs correspond only to POSTS.
And your blog doesn’t seem to be http://hhservicco.wordpress.com – please give the correct URL.
Categories and tags serve two purposes: help a visitor to your blog isolate particular topics (if you have the Categories and Tag Cloud widgets in your sidebar), and help bloggers find blogs/posts of interest to them via search engines. When you click on a category or tag in your sidebar or bottombar, it takes you to all of your posts filed under that category or tag; when you click on a category or tag under/over a post, it takes you to the global wp.com pages. (A post shouldn’t have more than a combined total of 12 categories and tabs or you get excluded from those pages.)
All posts have to be filed under at least one category, while tags are optional. Categories should be the general subgroups of your posts (by topic), while tags should be more specific keywords related to the content of a particular post; as far as search engines are concerned, no difference. For these two reasons there’s no point in having a tag identical to a category. Subcategories (optional) are further subdivisions of your topics. A category you add (no matter if it’s a “parent” or “child” one) won’t show up in the sidebar unless there are posts filed under it.
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Uh, no. Tabs correspond only to Pages. Static Pages.
Posts show up on the blog page and in the Recent Posts widget, if used.
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Oooooops! Saw your “pages cannot be categorized/tagged”, thought you were referring to that, and mistook both your and Stan’s page tabs for tags. Sorry!
(I’ll console myself with having given bonus info on cats and tags…) -
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Thanks for the explanations. I misspelled the name of my blog, now: hhservico.wordpress.com.
I plan to eventually change the name to SamplingPlansBlog.WordPress.com by starting a new blog and copying the old one to it — if that is possible.
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Yes, it’s possible, as long as your URL hasn’t been taken yet. You might want to register it as soon as possible. You can also just change the displayed name and keep the URL the same; less fuss. Do that on the Settings General page.
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