The Qwertyrash Blogs

What’s that you say? Yep. It’s okay to go slowish to begin with. In all probability, you will find that you will want to make changes to your nice shiny new blog - especially a couple of months after you begin.

Currently categories are giving me grief. Don’t do what I did!

Try to keep it simple. If you want to get into classifiying stuff, find a tagging plugin, such as WP-Taggerati for WordPress.

When I setup my Go Play AV, portable entertainment player news and reviews site, I went mad with categories because I knew no better. Eg, I wanted people to be able to find all articles for 1GB players.

So I created categories for display sizes, capacities, media formats etc. But now I’ve discovered tagging, that is a better way to go. Number one reason - I don’t have to create a new category every time I come across a new spec. Do you know how many different display sizes there are?!

Secondly, with WP-Taggerati, it automatically cross links to posts using the same tags and then displays a list. Very nice. Especially in a product blog where a reader might want to say list all the 1GB players that have been featured.

I now have some hundred odd posts to go through and convert categories to tags - yuck!

Note: WP-Taggerati does not create Technocrati tags. This will cause you some duplication of work. I use Ecto though so it’s no biggie - although Ecto doesn’t support unknown tags.

I should have planned better and probably got to know blogging a bit better through this blog first. So, there’s one lesson I’ve learned the hard way.

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