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Categories, Tags, and Taxonomies in WordPress

June 30, 2018 Heathers Admin

When I upgraded my Hedden Information Management website to WordPress a few months ago, I took advantage of WordPress’s blog post feature and incorporated a copy this blog into the website (while also keeping its original location on Blogger.com). The difference between categories and tags in the different platforms became…

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One or More Taxonomies

September 23, 2014 Heather Hedden

In the various definitions of taxonomy, one aspect of the definition that is often missing is what constitutes a single taxonomy (or thesaurus) versus multiple related taxonomies (or thesauri). If you hire a taxonomy consultant, they won’t tell you because they will defer to their client’s terminology. If you are…

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Tags and Categories

July 31, 2013 Heather Hedden

What does a taxonomy comprise and how does it work? Professional taxonomists may speak of “terms,” “nodes,” or “labels,” whereas most other people with a basic understanding of taxonomy might refer to “tags” or “categories.” A category is a well understood concept, and social media sites have made the notion…

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