[wp-testers] Tags plus categories or tags vs categories

Paul Stamatiou p at pstam.com
Thu Sep 6 22:55:53 GMT 2007


Tags and categories may coexist without issue.

> I assume the use of tags would let
> me do that without me having to create a new category for Ron Paul, a tag I
> might use once and only once.

You've got the right idea.

Paul

On 9/6/07, Bruce Keener <brucekeener at gmail.com> wrote:
> I have seen a lot of comments regarding use of tags instead of categories,
> but I would like to keep my existing categories and occasionally use tags on
> some posts to give the search engines some specialized tags for those posts.
> For example, if I were to write a political post, something different for
> me, and wanted to tag it with Ron Paul, I assume the use of tags would let
> me do that without me having to create a new category for Ron Paul, a tag I
> might use once and only once.
>
> Is my desired use of tags as a supplement to categories doable with this
> beta, or should I plan on replacing categories with tags (and using
> redirects to keep from 404'ing the search engines)?
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Paul Stamatiou
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