Comments on: What's the difference between WordPress categories and tags? http://blogmum.com/2009/04/whats-the-difference-between-wordpress-categories-and-tags/ WordPress made easy Tue, 09 Mar 2010 22:55:25 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: | Leaders OF The World WordPress Blog http://blogmum.com/2009/04/whats-the-difference-between-wordpress-categories-and-tags/#comment-1728 | Leaders OF The World WordPress Blog Tue, 27 Oct 2009 14:10:56 +0000 http://blogmum.com/?p=257#comment-1728 [...] Courtesy of Sue Bailey at BlogMum [...] [...] Courtesy of Sue Bailey at BlogMum [...]

]]> By: Sue http://blogmum.com/2009/04/whats-the-difference-between-wordpress-categories-and-tags/#comment-1124 Sue Sat, 05 Sep 2009 11:17:53 +0000 http://blogmum.com/?p=257#comment-1124 Hi Tessa, That's really about user permissions: have a read here http://codex.wordpress.org/Roles_and_Capabilities Editors can change categories; Authors and Contributors can't, so if you set your new users to one of those, they can only chose from categories that already exist. With tags, on the other hand, they can add what they like. You should also check up on the "ability to publish own posts" settings, and consider whether you're going to want to approve every post, or whether you want people to be able to post what they like. Unless you have an exceptionally good vetting system, I'd go for new writers being Contributors. Hi Tessa,
That's really about user permissions: have a read here
http://codex.wordpress.org/Roles_and_Capabilities
Editors can change categories; Authors and Contributors can't, so if you set your new users to one of those, they can only chose from categories that already exist. With tags, on the other hand, they can add what they like.

You should also check up on the "ability to publish own posts" settings, and consider whether you're going to want to approve every post, or whether you want people to be able to post what they like. Unless you have an exceptionally good vetting system, I'd go for new writers being Contributors.

]]> By: Tessa http://blogmum.com/2009/04/whats-the-difference-between-wordpress-categories-and-tags/#comment-1091 Tessa Thu, 03 Sep 2009 04:39:38 +0000 http://blogmum.com/?p=257#comment-1091 I'm so glad I found your site! I'm new to WP and I must say the whole tag/category thing confused me right off. I think it's a little clearer now. I'm wondering though, if you have a blog that say anyone can post to (upon approval, of course) can you set up the categories so there are only a set number of them for the poster to choose from- but they can set tags as they wish. Happy Gardening, Tessa I'm so glad I found your site! I'm new to WP and I must say the whole tag/category thing confused me right off. I think it's a little clearer now. I'm wondering though, if you have a blog that say anyone can post to (upon approval, of course) can you set up the categories so there are only a set number of them for the poster to choose from- but they can set tags as they wish.

Happy Gardening,

Tessa

]]> By: On Wordle and China’s Firewall | Adventures By Design http://blogmum.com/2009/04/whats-the-difference-between-wordpress-categories-and-tags/#comment-611 On Wordle and China’s Firewall | Adventures By Design Tue, 30 Jun 2009 13:01:33 +0000 http://blogmum.com/?p=257#comment-611 [...] my online travels, I stumbled on Sue at Blog Mum’s post about the difference between tags and categories. She quotes Lorelle: “I think [...] [...] my online travels, I stumbled on Sue at Blog Mum’s post about the difference between tags and categories. She quotes Lorelle: “I think [...]

]]> By: Sue http://blogmum.com/2009/04/whats-the-difference-between-wordpress-categories-and-tags/#comment-597 Sue Mon, 29 Jun 2009 12:12:19 +0000 http://blogmum.com/?p=257#comment-597 Hi Richard, It's a Wordle tag cloud - horizontal and vertical settings are just one of the options you can set http://www.wordle.net/ wp_tag_cloud is horizontal-only - I can't find any way directly in WordPress to do a mix of horizontal/vertical: though I guess if you know some Flash, it would be do-able. Maybe one for Roy from WP Cumulus? http://www.roytanck.com/2008/03/15/wp-cumulus-released/ Hi Richard,
It's a Wordle tag cloud - horizontal and vertical settings are just one of the options you can set
http://www.wordle.net/

wp_tag_cloud is horizontal-only - I can't find any way directly in WordPress to do a mix of horizontal/vertical: though I guess if you know some Flash, it would be do-able. Maybe one for Roy from WP Cumulus? http://www.roytanck.com/2008/03/15/wp-cumulus-released/

]]> By: Richard http://blogmum.com/2009/04/whats-the-difference-between-wordpress-categories-and-tags/#comment-596 Richard Mon, 29 Jun 2009 12:06:28 +0000 http://blogmum.com/?p=257#comment-596 So, that tag cloud looks really cool. How'd you get the text to write vertically and horizontally? So, that tag cloud looks really cool. How'd you get the text to write vertically and horizontally?

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