Categories and tags are two powerful tools that you can use in WordPress to organize your content. Categories help you group your posts by topic, and tags can help you group your posts by any keyword that you specify.
1. Categories are a great way to organize your posts by topic.
2. You can use tags to help you group your posts by any keyword that you specify.
Categories and tags are important in WordPress because they allow users to organize their content in a way that makes sense to them. Categories let you group posts by topic, and tags let you group posts by topic and author. You can also use tags to categorize your posts using the “Categories” dropdown menu on the post editor screen.
In this article, you’re going to learn how to add categories and tags in WordPress.
1. Both Allow you to organize content
2. Categories are best used for broad groupings of topics Tags are much more specific topics that you want to use to associate related content.
- Eg1. Recipe == category then, Chicken recipe, panner recipe etc. will be tags More Tags can be cumin seeds, ginger, Turmeric, Red Chilli, Bay leaf,
- Eg2. Chicken Recipe == category then, Kadhai Chicken, Chicken Lollipop, Chicken Dum Biryani etc. will be tags
- Eg3. Self Help == Category then, Communication Skills, Leadership quality, Confidence, Motivation etc. will be tags
- Eg4. Communication Skills == Category then, Body Language, Verbal Communication, Non-Verbal Communication, Written Communication etc. will be tags
3. The use of tags is entirely optional but each post must have at least one category.
4. But, You Can assign more than one category
5. Default is “Uncategorized” which makes no sense to your readers.
How to Change the default Category in wordpress?
First You need to have At least one more category, apart from “Uncategorized” Next, goto settings and then writing from the dashboard. The first option is default post category. Change there from the drop-down option.
6. Capital letters do not change a tag. Example, “BlogMonk” is the same as “blogmonk”
7. categories can be parents or children of each other. But, tags in WordPress don’t have that structure and are often used quite randomly. Eg. Recipe and Chicken recipe both are category then, Recipe will be parent of Chicken recipe
8. If you add too many tags to posts, you will end up creating duplicate content or thin content which is bad for SEO. eg. hot food, super hot food, spicy food, super-spicy-food, mouth watering food, spicy mouth watering food.
