Tags and Categories in WordPress 2.3

  • Tec

    (@kyou)


    16 years, 6 months ago

    I was wondering, does WordPress treat tags and categories the same?

    I have a Books category and from importing from UTW, I also have a books tag. Now I want all my categories with the proper casing but my tags with lower case. So when I installed one of those tag management plugins, I saw that my book tag was in proper case and when I changed it to all lower case, the Books category became all lower case.

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  • chrisjim

    (@chrisjim)

    16 years, 3 months ago

    Tagging is quite different to categorizing since it is based on keywords,

    Here are, in my opinion, the main differences between tags and categories, from the “tagger” point of view.

    1.categories exist before the item you are categorizing, whereas tags are created in reaction to the item, often in an ad hoc manner: I need to fit the item in a category, but I adapt tags to the item;

    2.categories should be few, tags many;

    3.categories are something you choose, tags are generally something you gush out;

    4.categories help you classify what you are talking about, and tags help you share or spread

    for details see Wikipedia’s articles Tags and Folksonomy!

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