Joyful Abode

Right now, all of my posts about food have the tag “food” whether or not I have included the recipe (or technique, as it sometimes is). If it has the recipe or technique, I also include “how-to” as a tag. But I also use “how-to” for tutorials like the jewelry storage board or recovering your office chair…

Basically, I need to devise a tagging system that will work better to help people find posts about a certain topic in the long run.

I was thinking I’d still use “food” but add “recipes,” get rid of “how-to” in favor of “tutorials,”… and then I realized that over time, I might get so many recipes posted that it will be hard to sift through them all. Should I tag differently, adding “pasta,” “chicken,” “pork,” “salad,” etc? I don’t want to have so many tags that they’re no longer useful either…

Should I add tags for different crafts? Right now I have “sewing” and “crafts” but should I add “paper” and “needlework/embroidery”?

Or should I try to make a page which catalogs all of the recipes by category? When I posted a new recipe, I’d also have to update that page, but it might be easier to keep up with than 50 tags.  (Of course, I’d make a tutorial page with the tuts cataloged too.)

Does anyone have any input for me? I’d love to hear it before I try to take on this daunting task… Did you know I’ve written over 200 posts for Joyful Abode so far? AHH! Re-tagging will be a nightmare! But hopefully worth it.

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