Hello there ladies and gentlemen. I’m posting this to everyone in general because I feel that I need some input on how to arrange the categories on the site.
Categories are organizational names for grouping like posts, and as these categories can be nested we should decide on a hierarchy to follow moving forward.
I would like to start using the Tags feature of these posts to display a tag cloud on the front page. Now, WordPress allows a one-way conversion from Category to Tag for those categories we currently use that don’t fit a broad subset of posts, but more an exact description of the posts content (such as School Shooting, or NIU).
Another task would be to standardize categorization and tagging. We have two categories right now that basically mean the same thing (correction: 3). We have Movie, Movies, and Film Review. I think we should decide which category with remain, or perhaps should we have a broad category Movies, with a Sub Category for Film Reviews (or just Reviews).
What do you think?
March 27th, 2008 at 10:16 am
I’m all for minimizing the amount of categories that we have, shaving off the one-shots. We should definitely have main cats for movies, hardware, politics, rant, gaming…and a few others. As well as cats for things like podcast, shotgun theater, and something new shannon and I are working on called “why you keep bringin up old shit?”
Thanks for asking for the two cent
March 27th, 2008 at 11:11 am
I’m slowly going through the uncategorized posts and categorizing them. You may see that the categories are a little more clear, but there are still a lot.
Suggestions, if you please?
March 27th, 2008 at 11:16 am
I guess it depends on how nested we want to get. We could do something like:
Entertainment
>Film
>Reviews
>Shotgun Theater
>Why You Always Bringing Up Old Shit
>TV
>Reviews
>Games
>PC
>Console
>360
>Reviews
>Wii
>Reviews
>PS3
>Reviews
>Portable Devices
>DS
>Reviews
>PSP
>Reviews
News
>Current Events
>Past Events
Politics
>Iraq
>Election 08
Again this may be too in-depth but just some ideas.
March 27th, 2008 at 11:36 am
I don’t think you’re formatting worked out, but I saw it in an email so I get the jist. We can of course add cats as we need to later, right?
March 27th, 2008 at 11:37 am
Well it fucked up all my spacing and indent formatting but hopefully you can get the idea of what I was trying to convey.
March 27th, 2008 at 2:20 pm
“Why you keep bringin up old shit?” should be under Movies/Reviews
March 27th, 2008 at 2:22 pm
strike my last
March 27th, 2008 at 2:28 pm
It has been duly noted, and struck. My complements.
March 27th, 2008 at 2:30 pm
Oh and a point of order:
Henceforth, all future posts relating to the design, redesign, and deployment of web assets, in conjunction with this site, shall be registered under the Maintenance category.
I yield the floor…