I’m preparing to do a little house cleaning on my website. I’m wanting to consolidate some categories and move articles around to get them nestled into their new categories easily. Essentially, I have some how become confused and logged articles in different categories, however, both categories have the same definition. Therefore, in an attempt to become more productive with my blog, I’m asking, “How should I organize my posts?”
I’ve had discussions with David, Travis and Chris about a variety of ways to sort and keep posts organized, yet none of these methods have been incorporated on my own website. Why is this? Laziness, you better think again!
It isn’t necessarily because I am lazy but because I am that and so much more. Moving posts around is not as simple as just a few mouse clicks and three lines of code. Granted it could be, though it isn’t for me. I believe I need to research the categories and find out which ones are more predominant in the larger scheme of things. Which category is going to be best suitable for future updates and maintenance?
As an example, I am wanting to sort my wordpress resources so that they are more easily found and navigateable. Right now I have direct links to each theme and plugin. I’m wanting to create something, similar to /wordpress/themes and /wordpress/plugins etc. This will allow me to setup a Wordpress section per se. Ideas?
Here are some questions I would like answers for:
- Should I sort and organize my posts simply as tags
- Should I treat Wordpress’s built-in category(s) as tags?
- Should I say farq it and put everything in one category?
- Stop smoking crack..
I’m joking about the crack, everyone knows I’m a meth-head. Kidding again! Seriously, joke. But no, really, seriously. I’m curious what would be a great way for me to keep the information on this website clutter-free and easy to find. Rants and Opinions are similar.. Meat and Potatoes versus Everyday, seems a bit redudant huh?
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3 Comments Cleaning house, how should I organize?
Jorge Quinteros
February 27th, 2007 at 6:04 pm
1I should really practice what I preach but as a fellow blogger myself, I find it easier to find relavent topics through ‘Catergories’.
Donna
February 28th, 2007 at 6:54 am
2I like categories for ease of use, but I’m not sure you will ever be done with changing and resorting. I’ve changed mine several times in the short time I’ve been blogging. You write on such a wide variety of topics, I can see the dilemma. Try starting with a few very broad categories and then divide those into a few more. I need to do that but time is at a premium for me right now. Good Luck!
Oh yeah, and 1 thank you would have sufficed. LOL
Travis
February 28th, 2007 at 10:30 am
3In your fourth paragraph, you briefly mention a good idea… so good in fact that’s exactly what I did six months ago.
I feel for a site like yours you might be better off utilizing both WP categories as well as some sort of tagging system. Your readers will appreciate it as it will provide an easier way to navigate through this website.
The only thing else I would say is to make sure to future-proof your URI’s so that people visiting from “old” links will still find the article they are looking for. (I’m sure you’re already on this one)
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