This morning I was discussing blog taxonomy with my good friend Andy Cottingham. He was asking me to clarify what the difference was between categories and tags in WordPress, and how they should be used.
Generally speaking, the basic difference between categories and tags is as follows; categorization is a formal, rigid, and hierarchical taxonomy, whereas tagging is designed to be informal, flexible, and flat.
For this blog I have decided to use only one category (or in my case subject) per post, but many tags. As I get into developing my site with the Sandbox, you should begin to see how this approach can provide a very simple but dynamic information architecture.
I’ll be blogging more detail about this in the coming weeks.
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