madrooter

Wouldn’t it be possible to use ultimate tag warrior (UTW) to achieve a directory?

Tag union could be achieved using:

https://mydomain.com/index.php?tag=usa+texas+houston

This would then retrieve all posts tagged with usa, texas, and houston.

The possibilities for using wordpress and UTW as a directory seem apparent. However, no one seems to have done it… An opportunity?

Have you considered using either categories or tags for this?

By scouring various sites on the net, I’ve found that it’s possible to navigate directly to pages which are the subject of a tag union or tag intersection. For anyone else out there who may need help with this too, here is an example:

Tag Union – “fish” and “crumpet”
The url to access posts containing both “fish” and “crumpet” tags would be:
https://mydomain.com/index.php?tag=fish+crumpet

Tag Intersection – “fish” or “crumpet”
The url to access posts containing “fish” or “crumpet” tags would be:
https://mydomain.com/index.php?tag=fish|crumpet

Unfortunately, I don’t think urls such as those described above are particularly search engine friendly, however I’d love to hear the opinion of someone who knows more about SEO than I do.

Cheers

I’d love to hear some expert opinion on this too. I was considering using tags instead of categories, however I have read some posts suggesting that the Ultimate Tag Warrior plugin will not be forward compatible with future versions of wordpress. Additionally, to navigate to specific tag pages (that have a union of tag 1 and tag 2) requires a url such as:

https://mydomain.com/index.php?tag=tag1+tag2

I don’t think this url would be particularly search engine friendly. So, these two factors (the lack of forward compatibility and the inability to navigate to seo url’s kind of scared me off using tags as a potential solution.

So I’m back to seeing what wordpress can do out of the box.

I’d love to find out how many categories I can create and fill with posts before wordpress will break or have its performance seriously impaired. I know some people will be saying to themselves something like why would anyone in their right mind want to have so many categories? But I do. I just do!

Anyone with this knowledge, please help. Would 1,000 categories break wordpress?