I admit to some laziness when I originally migrated my blog over to WordPress. Everything came across as categories, and I continued using them, building up a precarious structure of hierarchical categories for posts.
Now I’m starting in on migrating across to tags. Yes, I could just use the automatic tool for that, but then anything that linked to the category links would link off into hyperspace, madness and the abyss.
So, I’m going back and laboriously tagging past posts, and I’m not entirely clear on the category structure that I’ll be using going forward. Still working it out. Plan:
- Add tags first.
- Make sense of categories later.
Posts from here on will have fewer categories, and I may mess up some tagging until I’m into the rhythm of it. Plus, there’s the chore of slowly working back through past posts (a few each day, here and there) and tagging them.
The lesson here seems to be that focusing on the low-hanging fruit gives you extra problems in the long-run.
Wish me luck.
I think you’ll need time and coffee more than luck.
But GOOD LUCK sincerely anyway!
*uuug* I feel your pain having had to do similar recently – tips! Spelling, capitalization and it’s easier to delete redundant tags later than have to go back and add the one you missed.
If I tag three posts every day, it will take me a year to complete.
Add some trustworthy ex-linden or friends as “authors” e.t.c and they can casually help you tag them.
I moved from Blogger to WordPress over the summer… so I only had Tags… and coming here to Categories AND Tags I was confused a bit… but once I started it was really like the promised land — Categories AND Tags were what I always wanted – whether or not I knew that.
My major “topics” which were Tags on Blogger, became Categories on WordPress. I almost always try to have only 1 category / post… but occasionally I’ll have 2. Also I try to “control” or “limit” the different Categories I use. For tags on the other hand, I just go nuts – I use A LOT for each post, and I don’t care how different they are.
I’m really happy with this set up.
But, yes, the “one button import” is both true and deceptive… it’s impressive how much of your content and structure does come over with a single click… but if you want it to really be done right… there will be *many* clicks to follow. I’ve been slowly working thru the catalog cleaning up. All in all it’s been pretty easy and painless.
WordPress is MUCH better than Blogger. Of course, everyone tells me that I have to use WordPress.org and I’m actually on WordPress.com… so I hope there’s not another big project down the road for me… I’ll stay here for now… ha ha… making it even worse if I move later. WordPress.com has a recent post about about helping you leave if you want to… so maybe the migration to .org if I ever get there will cost more money than minutes… not a bad exchange.
IDK why I’ve only discovered your blog recently, but it’s SO great! Thank you so much for all the informative / useful content!