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 video shows you how to use the WordPress import and export feature to move your web content between websites. For demonstration purposes I export content posted on WordPress.com and import it to a self-hosted WordPress site. But you’re not limited to moving content between WordPress installations. The import feature also moves content from other blogging systems like Blogger, TypePad, and LiveJournal.

The video also demonstrates an overlooked import features, the ability convert tags to categories and categories to tags. Read More…

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.
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