Re: [pyblosxom-users] categories vs tags

[will kahn-g. <wi...@bl...>]

Tags are not part of PyBlosxom core.  The only way to get tags
functionality is with one of the various tags plugins out there.  I use
the one I wrote which is in git master.  Categories are part of
PyBlosxom core.

Since tags are implemented as a plugin, you can add additional
functionality to the plugin to get what you're looking for.  It
definitely doesn't do any of the things you're asking about currently.

On my blog, I use categories and tags.  Tags for user navigation and
categories for loosely breaking up all the entries in my blog into
smaller sub-directories on the file-system.


On 12/21/2010 04:37 PM, Dieter Plaetinck wrote:
> The way I see it, tags have only advantages over categories.
> So once you use tags, what use is there still for categories?
> Is there anything that you can do with categories, but you can't with
> tags?
> 
> one thing i'm especially interested in: how useful are both tags and
> categories for splitting up contents, even in rss feeds?
> 
> let me clarify.
> suppose i have a blog about real life, technical stuff, and linux.
> 
> with categories, i could create a structure like:
> /
> /life
> /tech
> /tech/linux
> 
> with tags, i could have tag 'life', 'tech' and 'linux'
> 
> Suppose i would do a post about a linux conference, with
> categories, that's both '/life' and '/tech/linux', but i can only pick
> one; but if i use tags I can use both 'linux' and 'life'
> 
> But anyway, my real question is: is it possible to give people rss
> feeds for specific parts of the site? for categories: a /life feed, and
> a /tech feed, for tags a feed for the 'life' tag and a feed for
> "any tag minus life"?
> I assume the latter is not possible, which is exactly why there is
> still a use for categories?
> 
> Furthermore, it would be cool (and useful) if anyone could
> request a url like <baseurl>/rss20/!life/!bsd/music; which would feed
> all entries except the ones who have tag 'life' or 'bsd', unless they
> have the 'music' tag.
> 
> Another thing, it could be useful to incorporate category-functionality
> into tags so that if i tag something as 'tech/linux' it will also show
> up when i list everything with tag 'tech'
> 
> 
> Dieter