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12/01/2023 07:29:47 PM (3 years ago)
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jorbin
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  • Ticket #60000

    • Property Keywords needs-moar-alot added
    • Property Reporter changed from joostdevalk to jorbin
    • Property Component changed from Editor to General
    • Property Summary changed from Deprioritize categories to alot of tags is too many

  • Ticket #60000 – Description

    initial v1  
    1 In the old days of blogging, we used categories. Nice, hierarchical structures which we all understood how they worked. However, as I was recently discussing the many issues around tags and categories with @matt, he made a strong point: people coming into blogging these days might understand tags a whole lot better than categories.
     1[[Image(https://core.trac.wordpress.org/raw-attachment/ticket/13237/alot-of-bugs.gif)]]
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    3 We also agreed that the fact that by default, WordPress ships with two taxonomies, (categories ''and'' tags), is less than ideal from a new user UX perspective.
     3Previously:
     4- #50000
     5- #40000
     6- #30000
     7- #20000
     8- #13536
     9- #13237
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    5 So I'm proposing a change (for which @matt should actually get credit as he said it first in our conversation): we should (slowly) deprioritize categories. To start, on the pre-publish checks, we should not suggest people add a category to their post if they've never done so, or if they only have posts in the "Uncategorized" category.
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    7 I'd also suggest removing the Categories panel if that's the case. Would love to hear other opinions, or see implementations :)
     11Changed with thanks to @joostdevalk. See #60001