Using Tags and Categories

September 24, 2009 at 8:32 am 1 comment

Tags and categories are different ways to organise your blog contents.

Tags
Tags allow keyword search within your blog and the WordPress community at large. Tagging is a broad Web 2.0 concept that cut across many Web 2.0 applications. The idea is to leave the organising of the large multitude of user-generated contents to the Web 2.0 community themselves. User-based classification by tagging is also known as folksonomy.

Tag Cloud
This is essentially a list of tags used that appear on Web 2.0 websites. Often times, the more commonly the tag is used, the larger the font appears hence indicating its popularity.

Categories
Categories are used in WordPress to set the framework of the blog, such as to divide topics into sub-topics. Hierarchy can apply to categories e.g. under the category of “Camera”, one can include sub-categories of “SLR Camera”, “Lightweight Camera” and “Camera Phone”.