The Blog of G

Work continues apace behind the scenes here getting the house in order. It’s slower progress than I expected though.

I’ve now spent 2 days sorting and tidying up the ‘Categories’ for my posts. I’m down from almost 400 to exactly 200 as I type and I’d like to get that number a lot lower, as I still have more categories than posts on here.

Why? I hear you ask, well it goes back to when I first started blogging and my lack of understanding of categories and tags, I thought they were the same thing and as I wanted to make sure that my ramblings could be found on search engines I was very liberal with the application of categories and as tags were less accessible to me, in wordpress at that time, I ignored them.

This was a monumental mistake of epic proportions. Essentially, categories help organise the posts on your blog where as tags are what search engines look for to help them organise the massive amount of data that they contain.

So once, I have sorted out the categories to my satisfaction, I have to apply tags to all my old posts. Thankfully, one of the many new features that WordPress now includes is a “category to tag converter” so once all the categories are sorted out, I’ll be looking into that a bit further to see if it will help me out in my quest to sort this mess out.