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Textpattern More than Two Categories

June 13, 2008 |

Different content management systems (CMSs) and blogging software have conflicting nomenclature when it comes to the back end. In Wordpress, for instance, an article can have unlimited categories; a review of a restaurant might fall into these categories: reviews, restaurants, New York City, Asian Fusion, and more. This type of taxonomy—in which a piece of text is referenced by a host of keywords instead of falling neatly into a single category—is often called tagging. Bloggers like having lots of categories at their disposal because posts’ topics can be all over the map, making traditional organization structures inadequate.

Textpattern has caught some flack for allowing only two category associations per article because people want to tag their content. There is an easy way around this:

Use a plugin for multiple categories: Rob Sable has developed a plugin called rss_unlimited_categories that enables unlimited category associations for articles. It replaces the dual drop-down menus with a multiselectable list, offering the same functionality as Wordpress. This plugin also enables the output of the categories as a list or tag cloud.