And maybe, 'How to Restrict Yourself to Posting in a Prescribed Category' could be handy, too.

While it's not hard to see that a multi-author web-shop may choose to herd writers into specific categories, the ideas & tools described in this article sound like they can be adapted & deployed to provide important values for solo authors & webmasters, too.

Categories in WordPress are flexible, but they can seem uncooperative at times, too. Though making the category-system flexible is a good thing, it may not offer the structure we'd like to have, for some roles.

Navigation of extensive and/or complex content was identified as a big challenge, early in the Personal Computer era. The arrival of the Internet, and websites, exacerbated rather than resolved this challenge. Categories, and enlightened use of them, can/could help a lot.

For example, right here on WPTavern, one of the leading guides in the WordPress firmament, the main way to navigate is the same way they did it in Pharaonic Egyptian, the early Roman & Greek civilizations, and the Shang Dynasty of China.

It's sobering, that with all our resources, we have devolved to mainly scrolling & pagination. WPTavern could be printed out on bound sheets of dead-animal parchment (by enslaved scribes, using goose-feather quills and compost-tea ink), and access to the content (navigation) would be virtually identical to the digital-electronic website.