Chapter 5
Creating Categories and Tags
IN THIS CHAPTER
Exploring content archive options in WordPress
Creating and editing categories
Creating tags and editing them
WordPress provides you many ways to organize, categorize, and archive content on your website. Packaged within the WordPress software is the capability to automatically maintain chronological, categorized archives of your publishing history, which provides your website visitors different ways to find your content. WordPress uses PHP and MySQL technology to sort and organize everything you publish in an order that you and your readers can access by date and category. This archiving process occurs automatically with every post you publish to your site.
In this chapter, you find out all about WordPress archiving, from categories to tags and more; how to distinguish between categories and tags; and how to use categories and tags to create topical archives of your site content.
Archiving Content with WordPress
When you create a post on your WordPress site, you can file that post in a category that you specify. This feature makes for a nifty archiving system in which you and your readers can find posts that you’ve placed ...
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