{"id":1123,"date":"2014-04-11T09:09:32","date_gmt":"2014-04-11T14:09:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hdmzweb.hu.mtu.edu\/cookingbooks\/?p=1123"},"modified":"2014-04-11T09:09:32","modified_gmt":"2014-04-11T14:09:32","slug":"tagging-and-categories","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hdmzweb.hu.mtu.edu\/cookingbooks\/?p=1123","title":{"rendered":"Tagging and Categories"},"content":{"rendered":"

On our WordPress blog we have two ways to organize our posts: tagging and categories. WordPress has these two tools for different reasons and to help make our blog better I did some research into both tagging and categories. I’m only going to talk briefly about each so I want to make it clear there is a lot of inforation about there if you are interested. In depth information about tagging can be found here<\/a>\u00a0and here<\/a>. Information about categories can be found here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

To put it simply tags are similiar to categories but they are much more specific. Categories are there to organize content while tags are there to make a post unique and stand out among the other posts. Categories also help a reader better understand what can generally be found on a website while tags help search engines find specific posts.<\/p>\n

Therefore when choosing what category to put your post in you should be thinking in the most general terms about your post and a post should only go in one or two categories. Meanwhile it is not uncommon for a post to have more then three or more tags. Useful tags are usually only one to three words long, point our unique aspects of a post, and stay focused on the topic in the post (note: in more casual settings it has become popular to have a seperate conversation in the tags. This shouldn’t be done in more professional settings).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

On our WordPress blog we have two ways to organize our posts: tagging and categories. WordPress has these two tools for different reasons and to help make our blog better I did some research into both tagging and categories. I’m…<\/p>\n

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