Categories vs tags for WordPress

After 1 month since the launch of mobile.islikethat.com, I have been creating many blog posts. I thought I did a good job in carefully placing the post into categories and tags. Well, I was wrong. I have not been creating categories and tags properly related to the way i would like to organize my content.

The idea of categories is a more hierarchy way to store your post. I would be using categories as the main sections of my site. The categories will contain not more than 10. This will allow my blog contents to be more focus on the topics

For tagging, it is the in thing for blog site. So we tag a post with a related word(s) that best describe this particular post. I prefer to use the tag as the sub section of my site. So for each category, I have many tags. And each post can have more then 1 tag.

Oh. As of now, WordPress does not provide by default a page in the admin to manage your tags. So visit here to download the Simple Tags plugin.

Example here on how i organize my categories and tags on mobile.islikethat.com I have a main category call Google. Under this category, I tag many post with Adsense, Google Map, Google Earth as so call sub category. This way, it simplify the way my site content is structured and allow you to find information easily. :D

Today i spend some time to reorganize my category and tags. Better now? Happy that I achieve something. Have you achieve something recently?

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