[/caption]When I go to your blog and want to find all the posts you have written about Science or Social Studies – how could I find it easily without looking through all your posts?
What if I wanted to find a post with a poem in it or a picture from Camp Taiwan – how could I find it easily without looking through all your posts?
I would use your categories and tags in your sidebar.
Categories are similiar to a table of contents but for your blog, a kind of general outline that directs visitors to general topics that you blog about. Tags are more like the index page of a book, a list of key words people will use to search for specific terms.
Remember that both serve one purpose: helping your readers find the information they need on your blog.
So all your posts should have 1 Category and many Tags so people can easily find your exciting entries.
That also means that you need to have the Category and Tag Cloud widgets in your sidebar. Appearance -->Widgets, drag to the sidebar
Categories are:
- Writing, Reading, Math, Social Studies, TAS Values, Internet Safety, Travels, Art, Mandarin, etc...
- spelled correctly
- use capital letters on the first letter of each word: Internet Safety
If you need to add a category:
- Open the Dashboard
- Select Posts
- Select Categories
- Type the name
- Press Enter
Tags are:
- smaller identifiers: poems, graph, essay, kindness, respect, Wordle, etc...
- used over and over again
- spelled correctly
- either use capital letters or don't but be consistent on the first letter of each word
Create Tags:
- Open the Dashboard
- Select Posts
- Select All Posts
- Quick Edit
- Type in a tag name or choose fron the most used tags
- Separate them with a comma: poem, cats
- Update
Now categorize and tag each post you have already written:
- Open the Dashboard
- Select Posts
- Select All Posts
- Quick Edit
- Update
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