[Suggestion] Post Categories

[RichToms]

I thought this would be a nice progression for this project, I'm typically finding that I want a category for a blog post and not just a list of tags

I understand that tags can be used in it's place

[themsaid]

I think having tags is enough, you can assign one or many tags to your post :)

[Menelion]

@themsaid I'm new to Wink, so please bear with me. As for categories, they can be parts of fancy URLs like my.blog/travel/trip-to-cyprus, or: my.blog/recipes/my-favorite-soup, where travel and recipes are category slugs.

[Lloople]

You can do that with tags as well. But be sure to assign just one tag per post or you would end up with duplicate content for SEO

[Menelion]

@Lloople Sorry, but semantically tags are other thing than categories: category is something broad, like "travel", "gadgets", "clothing", "recipes"; tags, on the other part, are useful for searching, and one tag per post has kinda little sense.

[themsaid]

Ignore the wording, use tags as categories or as tags, wink isn’t enforcing how you do it 🙂

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[alvarezskinner]

What i have ended up doing, is having a hardcoded array which has the tags that i consider or use as categories, and then in a foreach loop thru the tags, display as the category the first tag that is in that array and if not call it "general" category, not "pretty", requires you to be careful when adding tags, but its the only way i can think about, as i have several tags per post and then categories.

Seems like we have gotten to use to Wordpress and its categories and tags, i believe Ghost does the same as well? 😀

[devonzara]

I agree that tags are different than categories, but I don't think categories need to be implemented as a separate feature.

Instead, we could make use of the existing tag system by simply adding an is_category or is_topic boolean to each tag; and for those who wish to nest them, you could add a parent_id. I think this would be a simple solution that doesn't bloat Wink but acts as a compromise for those who do wish to have that added capability.

Until then, I too have hard-coded an array of tag slugs to act as categories for navigational purposes while retaining the ability to assign multiple tags to a post. Definitely not an ideal situation, but it suffices for the time being.

[vimalmistry]

I like this package but I can not use because there is no category functionality.
Tag is fine. Let' me explain

I have blog I am posting things like
news, snippets, tutorials etc => this are categories or we can say type.
Tag like laravel ,vuejs ,react etc can be used in any post. but Type is only one for per post.
Post => belongs to one => Category/Type/OrList
Post => many to many => Tags

[connecteev]

Agreed!