[wp-testers] "Categories"

[Stuart]

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 <nmeans at gmail.com> 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
> wp-testers at lists.automattic.com
> http://lists.automattic.com/mailman/listinfo/wp-testers
>