On 11/23/05, Abhay Kumar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > 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? > > If the main navigation of your blog (sidebar) is based on tags rather than > categories, you are basically deviating from the core idea of simplicity. > Categories are what one would consider a primary hierarchy and tags are far > too specific. > > > 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. > > Why not just make those 5-6 into categories?
That's my point - it is being suggested that Wordpress should have either categories or tags - not both. I'm suggesting a scenario where tags and categories should exist together. > > > 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. > > A tag cloud is a great idea if you want to show all of the subtopics that > you > > > > > 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. > > I still don't see the problem with having reviews as a level 0 category and > movies as a level 1 category. There is a clear hierarchy in your example. > Perhaps you have a different example where this is not the case. I do, > however, see the utility of multiple categories in permalinks. The example I gave somewhere in this string of emails is as follows: Category: Movie Reviews (or: Reviews -> Movies) Blog entry: Harry Potter Tags: harry potter, movies, films, fantasy, wizards, magic I think that's the perfect example of how both work together. > > An example would be category 0 having 300 entries and category 1 having 500 > entries. If 100 of the entries are common to both categories, a permalink > structure with an 'AND' would be useful to find those 100. This would be > useful only if category 1 was not a subcategory of category 0. > > > > In my opinion, tags empower the user whereas categories limit the > > > user. Thoughts? > > Definiately disagree. I feel both have their usefulness and they are > exclusive of each other. > > Cheers, > > Abhay > _______________________________________________ > 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
