Rapidweaver Blog: difference between categories and tag cloud

Hey all,

can someone explain the difference to me? To me, they both do practically the same.
Please enlighten me how to use these two correctly :slight_smile:

Cheers,

Stevie

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Interesting that you should bring that up. I used to use both categories and tags. Now I just use the tags. I guess you can look at it like Categories and Sub Categories. If you need both, you use both. If you don’t, you don’t have to.

Hey Lisa!

Thanks for the clarification. That’s pretty much the same conclusion I came up to.
Tags look much better to me, since they are more intuitive. I think I will stick with those, too! :slight_smile:

Cheers,

Stevie

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You can use them similarly and you can use them differently. For instance, if you’re selling clothes, you may have categories: mens, womens, childrens and then individual tags: shirts, pants, dresses, shoes, etc. that may be in both categories.

That’s just one example but I’m sure there’s loads more.

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I see, that’s a great example. However, will the tag cloud get smaller, e.g. will the category filter unused tag items?
If it does, then categories and tags together make great sense.