How would you set up the naviagation of your site? Would you list 100 tags for visitors to choose from? What if you had 500 tags?
I suppose you could select 5 or 6 of your most important tags (news, tech, personal, etc.), and then hardcode links to them in your sidebar, but this is messy. Categories, however, follow a heirachal flow and it's easy to display your top-level categories in the sidebar to present navigation to your visitors. I would then want to assign heaps of tags to my posts without worrying about how my navigation is going to look. With all the tags, I could create a page with a tag cloud, or perhaps include a mini tag cloud in the sidebar. Using the tags would be an additional method of navigating and discovering posts in my blog. Stuart. On 11/23/05, Nickolas Means <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Having just 'tagories' (nice word btw!) would make a Wordpress site > > difficult to navigate and difficult to structure in any meaningful > > way. (in my opinion) > > My thinking is quite the opposite of this. It would get confusing > for readers in the long run if a site had both tags and categories. > If someone really wants to see all your reviews then they can click > on your "Reviews" tag and they'll all come up. If they want movie > reviews, then click on "Movies" in a list of common tags that pops up > in your reviews archive section. Or, properly implemented, > your.url.com/tags/reviews+movies. > > Tags give the user the flexibility of using your site the way they > want to, not the way you want them to. If using both categories and > tags, is there a way to find all News relevant to "Germany" without > finding a post about your trip to Germany last year? If not, then > you're including information that the user probably doesn't want. If > News were a tag instead of a category, then the user could use this > to drill down as specifically as they wanted. > > In my opinion, tags empower the user whereas categories limit the > user. Thoughts? > > Nick > > _______________________________________________ > wp-testers mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.automattic.com/mailman/listinfo/wp-testers > _______________________________________________ wp-testers mailing list [email protected] http://lists.automattic.com/mailman/listinfo/wp-testers
