I couldn’t even write one single post before I had to ask myself a question… how to organize blog posts in categories and tags?
This seems to be highly discussed topic, but I won’t go into what categories and tags are (they’re taxonomies), nor will I dive into SEO-semantics. My question is what to name categories and when to use tags? Should this post be filed in the category WordPress? Or since this blog will be lots of WordPress, can I simply skip that category? Though many of my posts will be pure CSS, which should be it’s own category. Some CSS-posts will be related to WordPress, is it better for CSS to be a tag? Or should WordPress be the tag?
Personally I feel this depends on the type of blog. If you are reviewing movies, genres might be categories, and actors/directors tags. So I wonder, is this blog too broad? Is that why I can’t choose category or tag? Let’s say I make a WordPress category, obviously I should have a plugins subcategory. But on the off-chance I write about a Joomla plugin, where do I categorize that? This is a website running on WordPress. The theme is coded for WordPress. Everything I make and write is basically for WordPress. So a category for WordPress seems superficial.
Then again, if you venture into my site, you may want to only read posts about WordPress… This leads me to the fact that I have to plan my categories in advance. My seven categories. Yes, that’s right. 7. There are only seven stories in the world. And seven deadly sins. If I were to believe in religion, blogging would be a sin, but that would make it eight sins, and then my analogy wouldn’t work… also if blogging was a sin, I wouldn’t be writing this…
So, keeping with human tradition, when ten is too much and five is too little, seven is always believable, I present my seven categories.
- WordPress
- Plugins
- CSS
- News
- Rambling
- …
- …
Already I’m having trouble with this, not only is this only five categories, but a WordPress plugin that changes CSS… that can’t be in three categories. That’s just bad categorizing. If this was a physically located backup log, it would be wasteful to keep a copy of the same document in three different file cabinets. Should CSS be a tag? Or perhaps both a tag and a category? Filed under CSS. Tagged with CSS. Isn’t that just surplussing? So, the category CSS contains CSS that I’ve stolen written myself. And plugins that change CSS are tagged with CSS, while CSS that is for WordPress is tagged with WordPress?
Obviously this post belongs in Rambling, but since I’m discussing pivotal WordPress functions, it’s tagged with WordPress. Will I ever need the category WordPress? Can’t I just tag anything that is WordPress with WordPress?
While writing this post, I went out on an errand. Walking around and being in motion helps me think, which made me rethink the categories. I had to consider the future. So my new categories are below, six of them kinda make sense, while the seventh is vacant… Anywho, I see myself doing some sort of design, logos for instance, which is not related to CSS or WordPress. This frees me to easily post stuff I’ve stolen found on Internet, and neatly keep it in separate categories.
- Design
- Logos…
- Styling
- CSS
- HTML
- Coding
- PHP
- JavaScript
- jQuery
- SQL
- Plugins
- WordPress plugins…
- Rambling
- Anything not useful at all…
- News
- kNews…
- Vacant Futuretech 1 Slot…
So there we have it. Several hours gone just so that I could rethink how to name and organize categories and tags. This is probably not the first time I have done that. And I haven’t even published the new site yet… Lord. I’m spending more time naming this post than I did with the fucking categories…