Comments on: Clean Up Your WordPress Blog Step 1 – Tags and Categories

By: MichaelR

MichaelR — Sat, 19 Sep 2009 09:54:29 +0000

Nice tips. I will to follow some of the tips but the hard coding I just don’t know. Maybe will continue to use widgets for the meantime.

By: Christopher

Christopher — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 00:05:11 +0000

I agree … anything more then 3 to 5 posts on the index page is a waste of space and a massive waste of load time. (unless of course you are only displaying little snippets)

By: Christopher

Christopher — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 23:55:14 +0000

I enjoy the “idea” of tags also … but I am find the parent-child structure of subcategories t o be a lot more useful for navigation. Selectively being able to hide or display subcategories makes my life a lot more easier and the blog tends to be cleaner since I am not forced to display a massive “word search”.

By: Christopher

Christopher — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 23:51:06 +0000

Hey Turnip … originally that is what I was going to do with this blog …. but then decided to play around with subcategories and kinda fell in love with that. If I was to start a new WordPress blog right now I might be tempted to completely get rid of Tags all together and use sub-categories in the same method as tags …

By: turnip

turnip — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 20:08:40 +0000

If you mean the code to create the searchbox, it’s an edited version of what comes with the original talian theme. It shows you an excerpt and the number of comments for any word entered. I noticed your own search here does the same, but doesn’t display the number of comments. Search boxes are great, but can slow down your site if there is a lot of traffic and everyone is searching your database. In that case I recommend replacing it with a google search box designed to return results from your site only.