WordPress allows you to organize and structure your website content using categories and apply search keywords to help you find that content which are known as tags.
Managing your categories
All our themes use the default WordPress categories to make life easier, to can therefore create,edit and delete categories as normal under the options available in the WordPress admin area.
Show/Hide categories
From time to time you may want to setup categories which are not displayed on your main website content pages, you can decide which categories are visiable using the PremiumPress theme options in the admin under the ‘General Setup’ > ‘Categories’ tab.
Recommendation: Use Only One Category Per Post
It is generally considered best practice to only categorize each of your Posts with one category. This will serve you in two ways. First of all it is less confusing for people browsing your content by category, as they won’t find any cross-over and potentially confusing situations where they aren’t sure if an article they found in two places is really the same or not. The other is potential duplicate content issues, where search engines may find your post in several different places and think you are trying to game the system by adding lots of similar content all over.
Use Multiple Tags Per Post
The default wisdom for tags is to use them to identify sub-topics or minor points of interest inside the Post. So lets say you were publishing a Post that was a review of a 1969 Martin Acoustic Guitar.
If your site was based on music in general, this Post might be categorized as “Instrument Review,” but with tagging, we can get more specific. We might tag this “martin,” “1969,” and “guitar.” Then later you write a review of The Who’s first rock opera, Tommy. This might be categorized as “Album Review,” and then tagged as “the who,” “rock opera” and… “1969.” So these two posts share the same tag, “1969.”
Now we are starting to build some fun navigational possibilities for our users. If we build some Tag-based navigation, people could click the 1969 tag and see all the Posts of things related to that year. This will get more and more interesting as you continue to publish and tag, and may even open up some connections that you didn’t think about.
Don’t Go Overboard!
The whole point of using Categories and Tags is to assist human beings in navigating your site in intuitive ways. If you have 350 different categories on your site and use all of them lightly, this is well beyond the point of useful scanning and browsing. Our advice is to keep the number of your categories around 15 or less and that of your tags at around 100 or less.
