Category
The Screen Options allow you to choose which dashboard metab...Each postPosts are time-oriented content in WordPress—usually news,... in WordPress can be filed under one or more categories. Thoughtful categorization allows contentContent consists of text, images, headings, and other inform... to be grouped with other similar content and aids in the navigationNavigation is the term used to describe text on a page that,... of a site. Categories usually have a hierarchy and are intended to be the “home base” of a piece of content. In comparison, tags usually don’t have a hierarchy and can easily be applied across multiple categories. Here’s a simple example of how a set of pets might be tagged and categorized.
Pet categories
- Cats
- Dogs
- Rabbits
- Birds
- Fish
Pet tags
- Friendly
- Professionally trained
- Adoptable
Notice that it’s difficult to have a pet be two of the same categoryEach post in WordPress can be filed under one or more catego... (you can’t be a cat and a dog at the same time), but it’s pretty easy to apply two tags to the same pet (it can be both friendly and professionally trained). Generally speaking, if you’re working with a set of content, your types will be in categories, and your traits will be in tags. In the case of a set of degree programs, you would likely have a category for master’s degrees, and you might have tags for “online” and “in-person”—ways you can complete the classwork for that master’s degree. In the case of a set of newsPosts are time-oriented content in WordPress—usually news,... articles, you might have Alumni News and Research News as categories, and “technology” and “arts”—subject areas that could apply to both alumni and researchers—as tags.