Post by account_disabled on Jan 3, 2024 1:45:05 GMT -5
I no longer remember how many times I changed the blog categories. And I'll edit them again. I started with a few and ended up with 14. Too many, in my opinion, even if there is no maximum number, in theory. As your blog starts to grow, it's normal to add topics. It happened to me on Blue Pen. But every now and then I like to tidy up, group some categories, eliminate some others. That is, giving a more homogeneous appearance to the blog . The error of the “Uncategorized” section Or, worse, the one called “Uncathegorized”. WordPress has that category by default. It is impossible to delete it, but it can be renamed.
I renamed it Scripture, because it was my main topic at the time. A post archived in “Uncategorized” is not archived anywhere. What does it cost you to give a name to that archive? The names of the categories are a kind of map for the reader : they serve to help Special Data him orient himself in the blog , to understand what the hell he's talking about. The fallacy of a thousand similar categories Let's take an example. Here I have the “Reading” category, which includes both articles about reading and articles about books. I could have exaggerated and created the categories "Beautiful books", "Italian books", "Evening readings", "Books to read" and so on, freeing up space for the imagination. I see several blogs that use this method, but in my opinion they are all categories that are best combined.
In some foreign blogs I see something like "Content marketing tips", "Content strategy", "Content creation" and so on, when "Content marketing" would be enough. The “non-categories” categories Which ones are they? Here on Penna Blu they are there and I'm deleting them. They didn't immediately appear obvious and, in fact, when I created them, they seemed logical to me. Thinking about it, then, I understood that, after all, those categories weren't real categories , they didn't archive anything, they didn't thematize anything, above all. What matters to me is to respect a certain semantics , because it is the basis of understanding. So I want to archive my posts within semantic sections, which make readers immediately understand what they will find there. category.
I renamed it Scripture, because it was my main topic at the time. A post archived in “Uncategorized” is not archived anywhere. What does it cost you to give a name to that archive? The names of the categories are a kind of map for the reader : they serve to help Special Data him orient himself in the blog , to understand what the hell he's talking about. The fallacy of a thousand similar categories Let's take an example. Here I have the “Reading” category, which includes both articles about reading and articles about books. I could have exaggerated and created the categories "Beautiful books", "Italian books", "Evening readings", "Books to read" and so on, freeing up space for the imagination. I see several blogs that use this method, but in my opinion they are all categories that are best combined.
In some foreign blogs I see something like "Content marketing tips", "Content strategy", "Content creation" and so on, when "Content marketing" would be enough. The “non-categories” categories Which ones are they? Here on Penna Blu they are there and I'm deleting them. They didn't immediately appear obvious and, in fact, when I created them, they seemed logical to me. Thinking about it, then, I understood that, after all, those categories weren't real categories , they didn't archive anything, they didn't thematize anything, above all. What matters to me is to respect a certain semantics , because it is the basis of understanding. So I want to archive my posts within semantic sections, which make readers immediately understand what they will find there. category.