I just backup everything and converted all my categories into tags. I figured it’s a upgrade or die thing. I am already pretending to be using tags for a really long time. My URI points to /blog/tags/ but they are actually categories in disguise. I don’t really find categories have useful and it’s quite restrictive in the sense that you keep having to plan out what categories to create, what goes where and stuff. After a while it gets really tiring and blogging becomes less fun.
Today all my categories are gone and they all go into Uncategorized. Eventually when I have the time, I’ll sort the them into categories, but it’s a hard chore so I probably would take a year because I’m really slow in organizing things.
This is not the first time I plan for an overhaul of organization. It’s part of my plan to make things future proof. I believe that tagging would stay for the long run and more and more support is given by the WordPress community.
Now WordPress says “You have 1,767 posts, 15 pages, 10 drafts, contained within 1 category and 346 tags.”
I got really annoyed looking at my TextLink Ads being full of spam. It looks horrible and I am contemplating if I should continue to support them or drop their services. Google ads appears to be better earning too.
Also I wanted to do a redirection from beconfused.com/blog/tags/ into just beconfused.com/tags/. I intend to remove the word ‘blog’ from all URIs and do a permanent redirect.
But before the redirection happen, a new layout will roll out. The new theme aims to future proof //beconfused and continues to decrease reliance on third-party plugins. It probably will roll out on coming Monday. So stay tuned.
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