Can anyone bring closer the difference between categories and tags in tx_news to me? So far I have used only categories for the news section. for example, improve the internal filter by organizers or venue. In the meantime about 130 categories have gathered.
How can I use meaningful tags?
It is hard to differ because it always depends as well on the use case as well but I will try.
Categories
Categories are shown as a tree structure, therefore a category has always a parent category (if it is not a root category) and categories on the same level. Categories can be translated.
Tags
Tags are not sorted at all. Tags can not be translated currently (patch pending).
Example
Imagine a news website with typical categories like Sport, Web and Politics. Those categories can have sub categories to get a tree like that
Sport
- Baseball
- Basketball
Web
- IT
- Trends
Politics
- Party 1
- Party 2
Tags can now be used to add additional information which can be then used later for filtering, creating landing pages, .... Those tags could be
You could add as many tags as you want, just as hashtags you are used at twitter or facebook, instagram, ...