Messing with categories and tags
Wednesday, February 28th, 2007One of the highlights of moving to WordPress from my old Blogger weblog was the ability to categorize my content. I had some fairly well-structured categories defined, and it was good.
Then, WP introduced the ability to add categories on the fly, and it, too, was good — so I thought. But I’ve watched the category list grow out of control as I haphazardly added varying levels of specificity to each blog post. In short, I was using categories like tags. The two are related, but differ in their semantic applications.
I’ve installed a plugin called Ultimate Tag Warrior that should help me better deal with the folksonomy of my blog’s contents.
For now, until I revamp my site template (i.e. look and feel), you’ll see the tags listed in the metatext block on each individual blog post’s page:
I’ll soon undertake the process of switching all of my existing categories into the new tag system; for those of you reading this via my RSS feed, I wouldn’t be surprised if my tinkering causes some recent entries to “republish” in your feedreader.
As for the categorization system, I’m open to suggestions from any interested party. At this point, I’m leaning toward adapting the category structure of Digg (see pic; text behind the cut) to my own needs.
