Along with categories, tags are a key tool for organizing content on your WordPress website. While categories are general, tags are specific. You use tags to augment categories and provide additional context to your readers.
This screencast will show you how to use and manage tags in WordPress. Categories are covered in another video.
Great videos, very helpful for dummies like me who are going insane trying to learn CSS, HTML, tags, blah, blah, blah.
Thanks for such an organized, measured, and succinct presentation.
Thank you for your Video which provide me helpful
excellent video
I have messed all things up initially while managing tags for my site. Thanks for this video. It surely will help me a lot.
When I add or change a tag, the category automatically changes as well. Same thing happens when I add or change a category, the tag is automatically changed. How do I prevent this from happening?
@martin, that shouldn’t be happening. Are you sure the changes are happening in WordPress and not just on your theme. In other words, when you change a tag, do you see the category change in the post editor? Or is it just on the front end of your website when reading a post? If the later, then this is a theme related issue. If the former, then I suggest taking a look at your active plugins. It’s possible one of those is modifying your categories and tags.
Thanks Kirk. It was a plugin issue. Problem solved.
I noticed that in the Post > Tags area when you hovered over a tag that there is a ‘view’. If I click on this ‘view’, can I hide the tag?
I am not a fan of having the Tag Cloud show on the website although you do say that it also helps with SEO. Thanks
Love these videos
Hi Janet,
Every tag automatically gets an archive page that lists all of the posts assigned to that tag. The View link takes you to that archive page. There’s really no way to hide individual tags. I agree that tag clouds are pretty much a nuisance these days. Most themes display tags somewhere on the post page. That’s actually more user friendly as it give your reader an opportunity to discover posts related to the one they just read. The tag cloud you’re thinking of is available as a sidebar widget. In other words, it’s optional and there’s no requirement that you use it.
@Kirk Biglione – So what you are saying is that if you do not install the widget on purpose, it is not an automatic install. Huh! That means that people do this on purpose. Interesting.