How to categorize
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I apologize for coming back so often with questions but I’m fairly new at this and have a whole lot to learn yet.
I wrote a variety of posts all currently under “uncategorized”. I don’t even know if I’m going to be asking this question properly so bear with me. I’d like to set up various categories like ….
Government
Politics
People in the News
(who knows what else)Then I’d like to to cross reference articles so they’d be easier to find later. Is there a way of doing this? I don’t know what heading to look under in the FAQ area to find something related to this. Thanks for your help and again I apologize for being a bother.
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Well – you create the categories either like so: http://faq.wordpress.com/2006/10/23/post-options-categories or by going to categories and create.
Make as many as you like, but use your head: you can have parent categories like “Sport” and then child categories under that like “golf”, “flyfishing”, “football” etc.When you post a post, you choose the appropriate categories; it is reccomended that you assign no more than 12 categories to one post. This is because spammers put loads of categories on totally pointless stuff, and ends up in categories and taglists that are irrelevant. See?
So – create your categories – government, politics, go to an already made post and edit, and choose your categories.
Categories will in a way cross reference for you, if you add a category cloud or list to your sidebar.
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Here I go with another question…
In my efforts to set up categories for my posts I noticed a tab labeled “Tags”. Does this have to do with the categories?? Are the “Tabs” a sub-category or the other way around?? Or maybe “Tabs” have nothing to do with categories at all????
BTW, is there an area where these issues are separated so we can pick out a certain subject without sending endless time having to click here and then click there and still not find what we want. Sometimes the FAQ area can be a bit confusing for someone who is new at this. I hate to bother you guys all the time with what is no doubt elementary issues.
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Never mind – I figured it out – they are separated but related in a way. I think I understand it now. Thanks anyway.
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The FAQ has all sorts of things http://faq.wordpress.com/2007/09/21/the-difference-between-tags-and-categories/
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Dear Flo,
I am a newbie too and was totally confused about the tags-categories thing. (I did the Questions Forum post “Of Tags and Categories and Searches.”)
WP says that tags and categories don’t do much (see the questions/answers at the bottom of the FAQ post that Boblets references above, it reads:
Is there any advantage to using tags or categories or both?
Not here at WordPress.com and not for any search engines, no.).So I am still waiting for an answer on why bother with them. If I find out, I’ll let you know.
Us newbies gotta help each other out…
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The answer in the FAQ just means that there isn’t an advantage to using tags over categories, vice versa, or using both at the same time. The benefits of using tags are the same as categories.
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mtdewvirus is absolutely correct. (It’s nice that the staff here at WP are willing to jump into the Forums and help out.)
Another blogger turned me on to this topic posting that was very helpful:
https://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/is-this-a-contradiction?replies=7
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