Categories Acting as Tags.
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I’ve just noticed something for the first time, and I think it might be accidental.
When you decide which categories your post will belong to, it says so in the post. But should you click on these “Categories” from the post, to directly see other posts in the same category on the same blog, instead you will be taken to the “Tags” page of wordpress.
Regardless whether you click the “Photos” tag or Categories, if you do so from the top of a post, you’ll be taken to http://en.wordpress.com/tag/photos/ . where if I’m on a specific page, I expect the Categories’ entries to take me to categories, even if not done from the widget.
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The categories and tags listings in the post area both lead to the wordpress global tags pages. There aren’t any global categories pages and even before tags were implemented here, it was still the global tags pages.
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@geekornery: Tags and categories function in exactly the same way. And that’s why you shoudn’t be using the same word or phrase as both a tag and a category.
Also note that if you use too many tags and categories per post, you get excluded from the global pages. A safe limit is around 10.
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This covers using too many tags or categories: http://support.wordpress.com/global-tags/#missing-posts .
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This is exactly what I’m talking about.
Categories from one’s widgets do NOT work the same as Tags, for example, the word “Book” from my Categories widget leads to http://geekorner.wordpress.com/category/book/
All I ask for is that the Categories on the actual post lead to the same place. The global tag page belongs to tags. The categories belong to the blog. I want when I click a category, to see other posts filed under the category _in the same blog_.
This is weird, because on two places in the blog, the “Categories” behave, and lead to two different locations.
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All I ask for is that the Categories on the actual post lead to the same place.
Well, unfortunately, this is how wordpress.com works. The global tags and categories are just ‘tags’, while the local tags and categories are separated into categories and tags. There is no way to change that. You can use the INove theme, which allows you to turn off the global tags with the post, so you only have the local category and/or tag widget in the sidebar. Or you can use the paid CSS Upgrade to make them disappear, provided you know how to work with CSS.
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If you are thinking of going the CSS upgrade route, do know that there are only a handful of themes here where the tags/categories listings in the post area can be hidden without hiding other desirable things such as the author and/or date, and/or comments link. I would try it first by using the free preview function at appearance > edit CSS to see how your theme is configured.
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“Categories from one’s widgets do NOT work the same as Tags”.
Sorry, you’re wrong: categories AND tags in the sidebar lead to your relevant posts; categories AND tags under your posts lead to the global pages. If it wasn’t so, the ones under your posts would simply be redundant. If you don’t that to happen, you can select the middle option under Settings>Privacy.
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