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Sep 6, 2007

Styling Using Categories In WordPress

Lorelle’s two month party is on, and this month it is about WordPress. I have used a nifty technique to use WordPress category slugs to use different styles for posts in different categories. It not only keeps the HTML code clean, but also helps in making it scalable without performance loss. [Continue]

Jan 10, 2007

Using Categories And Tags

Wordpress allows you to categorize your blog posts. There are also some plugins that let you work with tags. Seemingly both of them can be used for the same thing - qualify your posts. [Continue]

Dec 2, 2006

Tagging and Cataloging

Chiara Fox explains what tagging is all about. She highlights differences between tagging and traditional categorization. Tag brings metadata to the masses. [Continue]

Feb 25, 2006

Wordpress - Categories As Tags?

The post about Global Tags encourages Wordpress users to use categories as tags. Tags are extremely important for making content available and also to connect the blogging community. Implementing tags as categories is great, but using categories only for tags can kill many other possibilities. [Continue]

Feb 12, 2006

Wordpress - Multiple Heirarchical Categories To Rescue

The advent of Content Management Systems (CMS) has seen the usage of computers move from handling data to handling content. So, what is the difference? Content is data with a context. [Continue]