{"id":981,"date":"2007-11-20T22:55:04","date_gmt":"2007-11-21T03:55:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/coredump\/2007\/11\/20\/wordpress-tags\/"},"modified":"2007-11-20T22:55:04","modified_gmt":"2007-11-21T03:55:04","slug":"wordpress-tags","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/coredump\/2007\/11\/20\/wordpress-tags\/","title":{"rendered":"WordPress Tags"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So I&#8217;ve been experimenting with WordPress&#8217;s new built-in &#8220;tags&#8221; feature. It&#8217;s pretty neat, but it&#8217;s not 100% awesome.<\/p>\n<p>For one thing, I&#8217;ve got nearly 1,000 posts on this blog so far. Going back and trying to add tags to existing posts is a PAIN IN THE ASS.<\/p>\n<p>Secondly, I find that often the tags I would associate with a post are just the names of the categories I&#8217;ll be posting in &#8211; so what&#8217;s the point? And when you get down to it, tags are basically just categories on crack.<\/p>\n<p>Thirdly, it can be hard to think up tags. I&#8217;m not good at it. I have put a lot of tags in back-articles; I&#8217;m sure I could have chosen better tags for lots of things. And I&#8217;m sure I&#8217;ll continue to choose bad tags that only confuse people. <em>Le sigh.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Finally, and this isn&#8217;t really a jab at the tagging system itself, but the <a href=\"http:\/\/reciprocity.be\/ctc\">tag widget<\/a> I use will completely crap itself if you set the minimum and maximum font sizes to be exactly the same. I thought I would set them to be the same so all the tag links were the same size (I&#8217;m not sure I like the different sized items in the &#8220;tag cloud&#8221; idea), but when I did, I got all sorts of &#8220;division by zero&#8221; errors on the page and I had to switch it back. Not a big deal, really, but still.<\/p>\n<p>So, I will continue to experiment with tags as time goes by. I&#8217;ll let you know how it goes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So I&#8217;ve been experimenting with WordPress&#8217;s new built-in &#8220;tags&#8221; feature. It&#8217;s pretty neat, but it&#8217;s not 100% awesome. For one thing, I&#8217;ve got nearly 1,000 posts on this blog so far. Going back and trying to add tags to existing posts is a PAIN IN THE ASS. Secondly, I find that often the tags I&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/coredump\/2007\/11\/20\/wordpress-tags\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">WordPress Tags<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"webmentions_disabled_pings":false,"webmentions_disabled":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":3,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[3,5],"tags":[101,388,49],"class_list":["post-981","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal","category-technology","tag-blogging","tag-technology","tag-wordpress","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pimUj-fP","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":505,"url":"https:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/coredump\/2005\/05\/30\/wordpressing\/","url_meta":{"origin":981,"position":0},"title":"WordPressing","author":"Keith Survell","date":"May 30, 2005","format":false,"excerpt":"So, I've finally moved over to WordPress. 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