Tags vs Categories

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[supersarah]

Absolutely, that makes perfect sense thinking about it. However, does this mean literally going through each category label to find the link and post into a link list? Hmm, I think my brain is melting! I have just finished a big fancy blogger template upgrade (for this read: boring old blogger template plus a few customised sidebar widgets!) and I think this is the next task in my big blog clean up. Off to stuff my face with some more chocolate and wait for the motivation to start!

[Lani]

I need to do a big blog cleanup myself. 

One thing with WordPress categories that can help, if you need a specific category and a general category for the one post, is setting them up as parent/child categories.  You can then use just the specific child category, but the parent category displays all the child posts.  So it works the same way as using two categories, but because the category lists are nested (hierarchical) they make sense to people for navigation.

[SnakyPoet]

supersarah, it probably DOES mean that. Suddenly seemed too much like hard work! Instead I have put an explanatory heading in sidebar: CATEGORIES (MAIN THEMES) ARE SHOWN IN ALL CAPS; Tags (Details) in caps and lower case (which neatly starts a new line at Tags...) and have arranged them by frequency. I think that's sufficiently kind to readers and myself!

[supersarah]

aaah, Snaky, this will work for you and I think its more than sufficient, for me however. Well guess who stopped using tags about a year ago. Hmm, I have a lot of work ahead of me! I just started using tags again today. RECIPE, Vietnamese Lemon Chicken. Along the same basis as CATEGORY, tag.