Category/Tag Confusion

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  pangledon · Member · May 30, 2009 at 6:49 am

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  Okay.

  I have a tag ‘pangledon’ which I use for all authorial posts. I used to use the ‘author’ tag, but when that started linking to anyone else’s ‘author’ posts, I decided to change it.

  I ALSO have a category ‘pangledon’ which I use for all NON-authorial posts.

  However, if you try to click on the ‘pangledon’ category link IN ANY POST THAT IS IN THAT CATEGORY, it automagically goes to the tag link instead of the category link. This is problematic, especially since no post in that category also has that tag. Can anyone help me get this working properly (ideally without requiring a rename of either tag or category)?

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

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  pangledon · Member · May 30, 2009 at 6:53 am

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  Hm. It seems as though there is a lack of link. http://pangledon.wordpress.com is the page I am referencing

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  raincoaster · Member · May 30, 2009 at 6:55 am

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  Tag and category links are identical on WordPress.com. There is absolutely no advantage in using both, and considerable risk, as staff have occasionally interpreted self-referential tags and categories as spam and excluded blogs using them from the global tag/category pages.

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  thesacredpath · Member · May 30, 2009 at 6:55 am

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  We need a link to the blog please.

  In general though you never want to have duplicate tag and category names. It messes things up, and duplicates are also frowned on by the search engines. To fix the issue, you will have to remove either the duplicate tags or the duplicate categories

  Tags and categories, as far as wordpress and search engines are concerned are the same. Having the two different things on your blog though allows you to further organize your posts. Both categories and tags will go to the wordpress global tags pages. There aren’t any global categories pages.

  You can think of tags as “subcategories” if you will.

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  pangledon · Member · May 30, 2009 at 6:58 am

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  If I change my new tag ‘pangledon’ BACK to ‘author’, is there any way to stop it from automagically linking to the global tag cloud?

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  raincoaster · Member · May 30, 2009 at 8:58 am

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  No. That’s the way links work at WordPress.com. Actually you COULD tick the box on Privacy to make your blog invisible to search engines and that’ll take you off the global tag pages, but it’s really not worth it in the long run.