Tags and Categories – What You Need to Know

on Thursday, January 29, 2009

We’ve been getting a lot of questions asking the difference between WordPress Tags and Categories. So:

  • Categories are the fundamental way WordPress displays and organises content. Categories are used for navigation within your site and its design, Categories are often used in Top level navigation (the nav bar in your website) as a way to easily get to related content quickly and efficiently. A category is singular and can only have one purpose.
  • Tags are a way of connecting related content within WordPress. Use Tags after you have Categorized. Apply tags to content you wish to link, then – depending on your design or theme, users can navigate between your posts from tag to tag and obvious connection can be made. Tags can be applied to multiple posts and as frequently as desired.

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  • The “Tag Cloud” widget | HomeQuest Group

    March 26th, 2010 at 11:49 pm

    [...] A “tag cloud” is a list of the most common tags in a website or blog.  A tag cloud widget is available to HomeQuest hosted IDX users, which places a clean looking tag cloud of your own on your site.  Each tag is a link to the blog postings with that tag.  To use the Tag Cloud widget on your site, follow the instructions below.  Click here to see more information on tags. [...]

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