Categories and Tags in WordPress
The term categories refer to ways of representing a group of interrelated ideas.They are the broadest way of grouping content in WordPress. Considering the broad nature of categories,a post can belong to more than one category in your website. What is most important is accessibility for your readers; this is the essence of aligning post articles to categories.
Tags are ways to denote a specific article or post by using keywords. It is majorly about creating a phrase that describes an article. They are like indexes which are to help users find articles with a website.
Permit me to make an example of this training material you are reading. If I am to assign it to a category, I can assign it to a category like blogging, Content marketing. But if I am to create tags, I will be considering phrases like "tags in WordPress", "categories and tags", etc.
In WordPress, while all articles have a category, not all articles have tags. It is a default setting in WordPress to assign post articles without category to uncategorized. This accounts for why some bloggers will rename their uncategorized as miscellaneous.
Use the Next Page icon as we begin to look into add categories and tags
Thanks for another great post. Something Someone brought up the question of categories and tags during Jay's training on Friday. Jay said it is better to only use categories and not bother with tags anymore. That in his opinion tags were something of the past. I guess visitors to sites are not using tags
Best regards
Andy
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Thank you Andy, @ embaker also called my attention to the same advice from Jay.
But here is my response to him : search engines are becoming much more robust with development or should I call it an advancement in technology.
With technology like artificial intelligence (AI), they are able to create tags on the own and group our various articles but this in my own opinion should not stop us from playing our own part.
As authors and owners of these websites, arranging our jobs with tags and categories will still help put things on track.
I will go through the training and reach out to Jay if there is a need.
I know there is always something to learn from him.
Ayodeji
Also there a lot of other trainings that can be of use to u on the platform.
Below are links to mine Understanding WordPress - Part 2 Understanding WordPress (Part 1): How to Create A Post and add navigation Menu to Your Website How to Create Contact Form for Website Using WPForms Plugin in case you have any further question, I will be glad to assist
Ayodeji
