Categories and tags are important tools in your content management arsenal. You use them to organize your posts and provide a better user experience to your site visitors. If you’re new to WordPress you might be confused about when to use one or the other. This screencast explains the differences between categories and tags, and provides some general guidelines for when to use each type of metadata. As a bonus, this video also shows you how to convert categories and tags. So, if your categories and tags are out of control, there’s still hope that you can restore order to your site.

To bring yourself up to speed be sure to watch the companion screencasts on using categories and using tags.
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This screencast introduces you to WordPress categories and category management. Categories are used to classify and organize WordPress posts. If you use categories well, you’ll help your readers find the content they’re looking for, and you might also improve your search engine ranking.

This video also includes some tips for working with the default category.

WordPress tags, the other tool for organizing posts, are covered in a separate video. Read More…

It’s been said that links are the currency of the blogosphere. Once you start blogging you’ll want to setup a collection of links to sites you read and recommend. Links help build community among bloggers, and they can also help new bloggers get noticed by peers (a good blogger will almost always follow a new incoming link and check out the site doing the linking).

This screencast demonstrates the WordPress Links module. You’ll learn how to create and organize links, and how to position them in the sidebar on your site.
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