Tags Over Categories?

by Patrick Ruffini :: January 5th, 2007 5:57 pm

By now, we all know why tags are a better way of categorizing a site than, well, categories. But I didn’t quite expect my own reaction to be this strong two days into relaunching this site with Ultimate Tag Warrior.

Now that I have tags, I have virtually no appetite to use, much less set up, Wordpress’s categories. So, expect to see the rather limited categories now to be replaced by a tag cloud just as soon as there is valuable enough data to support it.

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