[wp-testers] "Categories"

[Sean Hayford O'Leary]

Hmm... I'm tempted to say "have an option to turn it on and off", but
I know I'd get another five e-mails about messying up WP. :-p

So are you also saying that categories should be opened up in that you
would not be required to classify a post under a given category?

On 11/23/05, Nickolas Means <nmeans at gmail.com> wrote:
> I agree with your argument that native code is more stable through
> upgrades than plugins.  At the same time, why introduce a second
> function just like one already present.  If tags were to be
> introduced as part of the WP core code, then categories would need to
> be locked down.  Mandatory one-and-only-one category per post (as
> Matt mentioned, like Sections in Textpattern).  If categories were
> not locked down, you would essentially have the same function twice-
> over with very minimal differences in functionality.
>
> Changing the functionality in this way (one cat. per post) would
> break most of the WordPress blogs currently in existence.  Most, if
> not all of us, have at least one post in multiple categories.  I
> personally don't want to go through my blog and move all that over to
> a tagging function when what I've got works well and there's a plugin
> out there that doesn't break anything to do what you want to do.
>
> If you want to discipline yourself into using only one category per
> post, then by all means do so, but it's not something that should be
> forced upon the entire userbase.  And without forcing it on the
> entire userbase, all you've done is implement redundant functionality.
>
> Nick
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