What are the differences between tag and category?

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This post is a translation of the material What is the difference between tags and categories? , originally published on the Yoast blog. The content was authorized for publication on the HostGator blog.

Tags and categories help structure our content. You can often find them in visual metadata, such as in blog posts or in a list of clickable links in a website's sidebar.

Tags are sometimes represented as a tag japan cell phone number list cloud, although most sites avoid using this element nowadays. There is a clear difference between tags and categories, but many users confuse the two.

Generally, this is not important for the end user. However, for example, in WordPress, there are some benefits to using categories for certain segmentations and tags for others. Here, I would like to explain the difference between tags and categories.


WordPress Taxonomies
WordPress uses taxonomies to group content. The most common default taxonomies in WordPress are categories and tags, but it is also possible to create a custom taxonomy.

A taxonomy can be defined as an “ordered classification.” This indicates some hierarchy or structure, which is often applied to categories.