I happen to think that tags very much outweigh categories. If you are a big blogger, it’s difficult not to make your categories too specific. If they are too specific, you’re already tagging, basically.
Here on the blog, I’ve been facing this dilemma: block out some of my creativity and my want to make things very organized by using categories, or, use tags and when clicked have my users not see all of my posts under that tag, but every post by every blog on WordPress.com under that tag.
It’s a real catch-22. And I don’t know what to do, other than to just use neither.
This brings up a real issue with WordPress.com. Even though your blog runs on a free platform, you don’t have complete control over it. I’m not asking for that much control here. I just want to have the tag links go to my blog’s local tag page, not WordPress.com’s public tag page… heck, even a simple option in the Admin Panel to control such a thing would do! I realize and totally understand that allowing certain customizations may come with unintended security risks for the entire WordPress.com blog network.
Of course, I’m not too happy with this. But I suppose I’ll live with neither, at least until there’s that option. Maybe I’ll contact WordPress.com about adding such an option.
