Alex's Adventures on the Infobahn - tagshttps://www.bennee.com/~alex/2010-01-17T19:17:00+00:00the wanderings of a supposed digital nativeCleaning up the tags2010-01-17T19:17:00+00:002010-01-17T19:17:00+00:00alextag:www.bennee.com,2010-01-17:/~alex/blog/2010/01/17/cleaning-up-the-tags/<p>When I first converted my old blog to Wordpress I used tags for all the old categories. This was probably the wrong choice as tags present more subtle meta-data about a post. After manually updating a whole bunch of posts I discovered Wordpress already has useful "Tags->Categories" and "Categories- …</p><p>When I first converted my old blog to Wordpress I used tags for all the old categories. This was probably the wrong choice as tags present more subtle meta-data about a post. After manually updating a whole bunch of posts I discovered Wordpress already has useful "Tags->Categories" and "Categories->Tags" tools to help with the clean-up. So now my tag-cloud is a little less dominated by the generic "general" and reflects the distribution of posts a little better. It remains to be seen if this is a good thing.</p>