Questions:
Do you use categories on your blog?
If so, how many?
A while back, I stopped using categories on my blog posts. There were simply way too many and I really didn’t see much use in them in a personal blog. They took up a fair amount of time, time that I could use for something else.
Since then, all blog posts have been assigned a default of “general” category.
I may go back to using categories, but if I do, I need to be more selective. WordPress has the capability to assign a hierarchy. For instance, I could assign “civil war” and “Eyes of the Great Depression” under “American History” – certainly something to look into.
Wednesday, I took the first step and whittled down the total number. There is still quite a few – over 80 –, but it’s a beginning. I think I’ll leave it there for now.
Current Categories
- America
- American History
- Arkansas
- Around home
- beliefs
- blog
- blogging
- civil war
- climate change
- Colorado
- commentary
- copyright
- critters
- disaster
- environment
- Eyes of the Great Depression
- family
- festival
- finance
- fitness
- food
- General
- give me a break!
- global warming
- Great Depression
- Haw Creek
- health
- hiking
- history
- holidays
- humor
- Illinois
- in the news
- internet
- Kansas
- Kentucky
- Maryland
- media/news
- Montana
- mountains
- museums
- Nebraska
- New York
- North Carolina
- nuclear energy
- Oklahoma
- on the road
- parks
- people
- perception
- photography
- plants
- politics
- quilting
- racism
- retirement
- running
- RVs
- science
- serendipity
- shopping
- South Dakota
- sun
- sunspot
- tanstaafl!
- taxes
- Tennessee
- tips and hints
- training
- travel
- travel journal
- Utah
- values
- video
- vintage images
- vintage photos
- Virginia
- volcano
- weather
- Wednesday Weigh-In
- West Virginia
- wild fires
- Wisconsin
- WordPress
- work
- writing
- Wyoming
This relook at categories came about as a result of a post on Lorelle VanFossen’s blog, Lorelle on WordPress.
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