Categories and Tags are the two main ways to organize your WordPress content.
Both Categories and Tags are “taxonomies” and they can help you sort your content. However, on a normal WordPress site, both Categories and Tags are only available for Posts. This means that you do not have any options to organize your Pages or other post types … unless you use a plugin such as TaxoPress.
Here at TaxoPress, our plugins allow you to manage Tags, Categories and all your WordPress taxonomy terms. If you use terms correctly, visitors can use Tags and Categories to find content they’re interested in. However, there’s a limitation in the WordPress core: Tags and Categories don’t appear in search results. This makes it hard to…
When you add a Tag or Category to WordPress posts, it is stored in your WordPress database. This makes it possible to WordPress to easily connect terms to your posts. In this guide, we’ll show you where and how WordPress stores your term data. Our team also wrote a similar guide for finding Media Library…
Tags and Categories are a great tool for WordPress users. They can help you organize your site content and improve your site’s search engine optimization. When you start a new WordPress site, Tags and Categories are two of the very first features you will see. We have a detailed guide to Tags and another detailed…
Here at TaxoPress, our plugins allow you to manage Tags, Categories and all your WordPress taxonomy terms. If that sentence doesn’t make sense to you, we’re here to help! Tags are a great tool for WordPress users. They can help you organize your site content and improve your site’s search engine optimization. By organizing your…
For many years, WordPress has offered a feature that quickly added commonly used tags to your posts. This feature was really helpful for users to write a lot of content. Here are some examples from real WordPress users: In this blog post, I’m going to introduce you to the basic “Most Used Tags” feature, and…
Here at TaxoPress, our plugins allow you to manage Categories, Tags, and all your WordPress taxonomy terms. If that sentence doesn’t make sense to you, I’m here to help! Categories are a great tool for WordPress users. They can help you organize your site content and improve your site’s search engine optimization. By organizing your…
Many years ago, before 2008, WordPress would show an “ID” column for important content items. You can see this ID column in the old WordPress screenshot below. Each post has a unique ID that’s used to identify that post in the database. This ID has been hidden for most WordPress users for 15 years because…
TaxoPress is one plugin that allows you to create and manage all the terms and taxonomies on your WordPress site. The “Taxonomies” screen an show all the taxonomies created by WordPress and your plugins and themes. This screen will show Tags and Categories, plus also taxonomies from WooCommerce and other plugins.
In WordPress, there are two words used to talk about the URL of a page: “Permalink” and “Slug”. Let’s show the meaning of those words with an example:
The Tag Groups plugin allows you to organize your WordPress taxonomy terms and show them in clouds, tabs, accordions, tables, lists and much more. The plugin offers many ways to customize the display of your taxonomy terms. For example, you can create custom color schemes for your terms.