{"id":7213,"date":"2004-10-08T10:51:24","date_gmt":"2004-10-08T17:51:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/2004\/10\/08\/categories-2.html"},"modified":"2004-10-08T10:51:24","modified_gmt":"2004-10-08T17:51:24","slug":"categories_2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2004\/10\/08\/categories_2.html","title":{"rendered":"Categories"},"content":{"rendered":"

Someone once said “Time is what keeps everything from happening all at once.”<\/p>\n

Categories on my blog are a way to:<\/p>\n

    \n
  1. Categories intentionally group the posts for convenient retrieval at a later date. The retrieval could also be done by using the Search function, which is more flexible, but which also requires key words be the same across the posts one is looking for. Still, I tend to Search first, and fall back on Categories later.\n
  2. Very secondarily, categories can cue a reader as to what to expect (especially when put at the top of a post). <\/ol>\n

    When this blog first started, it didn’t have categories, largely because Blogger didn’t support it at the time. Even after I changed over to MT, it took a while before I did a mass categorization. Since then I’ve occasionally gone in and added categories, shifted things around, etc., but the organization is not as strong (or as thorough) as I’d like. There is no easy and quick way to categorize everything.<\/p>\n

    I’ve come up with a taxonomy of 84 category\/subcategories that I could push all my content into. That number is subject to revision (probably upwards). That’s up from the 35 categories I currently have. It will make it easier to zero in on posts on a certain topic. And it will also let me have full-text category archives (instead of excerpt archives).<\/p>\n

    The question is — should I do all that work? And it will be a lot of work. Even with the faster rebuilds, it will take time.<\/p>\n

    So … what do you think? Is it too much effort? Are excerpted category archives okay? Does anyone here actually use the category archives here? Is Search a better, more complete option? Does anybody know what time it is? Does anyone really care?<\/p>\n

    Inquiring minds want to know!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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