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Blog Exercises: Dissecting Post Categories

May 13, 2013 – 4:17 am

In a recent article, Noah Weiss shared his struggle to figure out categories and tags on his personal site. I know many of you following these Blog Exercises have also struggled to figure out your categories, so I thought Noah’s site would be a perfect example, He has gratefully given me permission to rip his […]

By Lorelle VanFossen | Posted in Blog Exercises, Blogging, Blogging Tips, WordPress Tips | Tags: blog categories, categories, categories and tags, categorization, content, content management, content organization, navigation, post categories, site organization, structure, tags, web writing, what do you blog about, wordpress, Writing | Comments (3)

Blog Exercises: How to Tag Posts

March 19, 2013 – 4:16 am

Categories are your site’s table of contents. Tags are your index words. While it is simple to explain the two basic organizational and navigation elements of a WordPress site, coming up with tags for each post is a struggle many bloggers battle. Tags represent micro-categorization of your site’s content. It helps the visitor find closely […]

By Lorelle VanFossen | Posted in Blog Exercises, Blogging, Blogging Tips, WordPress Tips, Writing | Tags: blog exercises, Blogging Tips, categorizaton, content, content organization, content tags, how to tag posts, navigation, organization, post tags, posts, structure, tags, tags and categories, web writing, writing for the web, writing tips | Comments (6)

Blog Exercises: Check Your Site Title Tag

March 14, 2013 – 4:40 am

Do you know what the title of your site is? Not the name of your site or the title of your post, but the HTML <title> tag for your site buried in the source code. In HTML, every website is required to have the <title> tag in the <head> of the source code HTML structure. […]

By Lorelle VanFossen | Posted in Blog Exercises, Blogging, Blogging Tips, Web Design, WordPress Themes, WordPress Tips, Writing | Tags: blog exercises, blog title, Blogging Tips, code, html, html title, html title tag, post title, seo, site title, tags, title tag, Web Design, WordPress Themes, WordPress Tips | Comments (10)

Blog Exercises: Know Your Pageviews

March 13, 2013 – 4:28 am

In this Blog Exercise, it is time to learn some website jargon, specifically, what are all the web pages of your site called. I teach web publishing with WordPress and web design courses at two colleges, and I’m stunned that students don’t know at the lack of proper names for all the parts of a […]

By Lorelle VanFossen | Posted in Blog Exercises, Blogging, Blogging Tips, WordPress Themes, WordPress Tips | Tags: author, blog exercises, blog names, Blogging Tips, categories, database, design, front page, generated web pages, jargon, modular, multi-post pageview, multiple posts, names, pages, pageviews, php, posts, single post pageview, tags, template files, template tags, terminology, Web Design, web design names, web pages, wordpress, WordPress Themes, WordPress Tips | Comments (2)

Blog Exercises: Category Cross-Pollination

February 12, 2013 – 4:35 am

In these Blog Exercises, I am faced with a category quandary. For the most part, these are blogging tips, so they should go into my Blogging Tips category as well as Blog Exercises category, right? Maybe right. These Blog Exercises are meant to have some form of order, though they may be done in any […]

By Lorelle VanFossen | Posted in Blog Exercises, Blogging, Blogging Tips, Writing | Tags: blog exercise, blog exercises, blogging, Blogging Tips, body or work, categories, categorization, content, content with intent, format, organization, parent categories, planning, structure, sub-categories, tags, web writing, Writing, writing for the web | Comments (3)

Blog Exercises: Category Counting

February 8, 2013 – 4:39 am

Think of categories and tags this way: Categories are your site’s table of contents. Tags are your index words. In general, most sites should have 5-12 categories max. Each category should represent a “body of work,” a collection of posts related to a focused topic. When you find a blog with dozens of categories, what […]

By Lorelle VanFossen | Posted in Blog Exercises, Blogging, Blogging Tips | Tags: assumption, blog exercise, blog exercises, blog organization, blog writing, Blogging Tips, body of work, categories, content, content with intent, organization, perception, planning, structure, tags, web writing, Writing | Comments (12)

Adding, Deleting, and Changing a WordPress Category

September 13, 2012 – 9:02 pm

Time to add a new category to WordPress? Have enough content within a specific topic and want to add it to your category lists? Changing your mind about a category name and wish to change it? Want to delete an entire category worth of posts because you don’t want to cover that topic anymore? Adding […]

By Lorelle VanFossen | Posted in Blogging Tips, WordPress News, WordPress Tips, Writing | Tags: categories, categories in wordpress, change categories, changing categories, delete category, edit categories, move categories, move category, renaming category, tags, wordpress, wordpress categories, wordpress tags, WordPressDotCom | Comments (42)

Tags Arrive on WordPress.com Blogs

September 21, 2007 – 2:52 pm

With the announcement of the built-in tag feature in the upcoming release of WordPress 2.3, I’ve been waiting for WordPress.com to get tags as we are the beta testers of the WordPress World. Well, today they arrived. At the bottom of your Write Post panel’s editing box, you will see a new form for Tags. […]

By Lorelle VanFossen | Posted in WordPress News, WordPressDotCom | Tags: categories, post categories, post tags, tagging, tags, wordpress, WordPress News, wordpress tags | Comments (58)

Categories versus Tags – What’s the Difference and Which One?

September 9, 2005 – 8:14 am

Categories and Tags are for your visitors, not just search engines. Think of your visitors’ needs first. Categories and Tags are about navigation and sorting, grouping your content to help visitors find related information. Categories and Tags are not fashion statements. Don’t be colorful or imaginative with either. Categories are your site’s table of contents. […]

By Lorelle VanFossen | Posted in WordPress Tips | Tags: blog writing, categories, categorizing, categorizing content, tagging, tagging content, tags, tags and categories, wordpress, wordpress categories, wordpress tags, wordpress tags and categories | Comments (306)

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