[Hamara-users] content, tag cloud vs categories and if tags then need tag cloud and also which type ?

[shirish]

Hi all,

Now that we have been using wordpress a bit, what do people think in 
terms of content ? Right now most of the blog posts are event coverage, 
should we limit the blog posts to only events done by hamara or are 
there any other topics that people would want to know or either 
contribute to ?

I would like to see more people putting their views about where they see 
hamara going or where they want to take it. It isn't a community if only 
Vikas and I are putting up blog posts, so would like to see some more 
and different content from people within the team at the very least. 
Anybody from the community who's reading this is of course invited.

For e.g. I would like to see wordpress be ready to be used in a single 
command.

The rest of the blog post could be about the existing way in which you 
are putting the whole Wordpress stack, if there were any specifics which 
would make it easier for lot of people to start using without much 
setting up to do.

Maybe some add-ons that should be installed by default if you pull in 
wordpress, some things which needs to be in recommends and some which 
are in suggests.

The above is just an example, there are and would be lot of ways we 
could improve on existing ways and means.

The second query I have for people is should we have tags or/and 
categories.

Now a simple or uneducated difference between the two is tags are simply 
words or keywords that come to you when you are writing or reading a 
blog post. The idea of tags is that it is easier for people to find 
content about it. A good/bad idea about tags is that sooner or later you 
have to make a taxonomy so some relationships are defined.

Categories is more the father or grand-father of tags in the sense that 
it is and used to be official but it doesn't have the free-wheeling 
casualness that tags have.

There is a spoken or unspoken rule that you can have many tags but 
cannot have too many categories as supposedly that makes it confusing.

If we do end up using tags then we would need to generate a tag cloud.

See https://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/wp_tag_cloud

Also, we would have to do some work with making the search a bit more 
tag or category friendly depending on what people think is good.

Maybe Sam would share some of his inputs in this.

-- 
Regards,
Shirish Agarwal,
Community Lead,
Hamaralinux.org