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Categories provide a helpful way to group related blog posts together
Follow the steps in this guide to create and categorize your posts and display them on your website.
In this guide
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About Categories
Categories keep your posts organized and easy for your readers to navigate.
You might want to create categories for different topics you cover on your blog
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For example:
A food blog may use categories for Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner, and Dessert.
A company may create categories for News, Promotions, and Product Releases.
A graphic designer may have categories for Illustration, Video, UX Design, and Logo Creation
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No matter the topic of your blog, categories keep your posts in order as your blog grows
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Create Categories
New blogs start with one default category called “Uncategorized”
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To create your first categories, follow these steps.
Visit your site’s dashboard.
Navigate to Posts → Categories.
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Under “Add New Category” add the following details:
Name:
The name is how it appears on your site
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Parent Category:
Categories, unlike tags, can have a hierarchy.
You might have a Jazz category, and under that have children categories for Bebop and Big Band.
Totally optional.
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Description:
The description is not required, and prominent by default.
However, some themes may show it.
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Click the “Add New Category” button to create the new category
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Add New Category section with fields for Name, Parent Category (drop-down) and Description.
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Add New Category
Choose a Default Category
When you create a new post, it is automatically assigned the default category.
All posts must be given a category.
The default category is Uncategorized.
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You can follow these steps to change it.
Make sure you have visited Posts → Categories and created the category you want to set as your default,
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Visit your site’s Dashboard.
Navigate to Settings → Writing.
Under “Default Post Category” select the category from the drop-down list.
Click the “Save Settings” button.
Categorize your Posts
Now that you have created some categories, as described in the previous section, the next step is to add those categories to your posts:
Visit your site’s dashboard
Click on Posts.
Click on the post you want to assign to a category.
Open the post settings sidebar.
If you do not have the sidebar on the right, click the Settings icon in the top right corner to bring up the settings.
This icon looks like a square with two uneven columns:
The settings icon in the top right corner
Scroll down to locate the “Categories“ section.
Click the checkbox next to the category you want to assign to the post.
Click the “Save” button to apply the changes to that post.
You can remove a post from a category by unchecking the box next to the category name.
Categories shown in the post settings.
It is possible to quickly create a new category here by clicking on “Add New Category” below the list of your existing categories.
Categories will appear with the selected category or categories at the top of the list and the remaining categories in alphabetical order.
You can select multiple categories for a single post.
However, posts with more than 15 combined categories and tags will not appear in the WordPress.com Reader.
Display Categories on Your Site
After categorizing your posts as described in the previous section, you may wish to display those categories on your site to make it easier for your visitors to find what they’re looking for
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There are several ways to do this:
List your categories in your site’s navigation menu.
Visit Add Categories to a Menu to learn how.
Display a list of category names, commonly shown in a sidebar or footer.
Insert the Categories List block to do this
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Display posts of a particular category on a page:
WordPress automatically creates these pages for you – see below
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Insert a Query Loop, Post Carousel, or Blog Posts block that you can filter to show posts of a specific category.
Category Pages
WordPress automatically generates a category page for every category on your site.
This page displays all of the posts assigned to that category and automatically updates with every new post you publish with that category.
The category page will have a link in the following format:
https://yourgroovysite.com/category/category-name
To visit any category page on your site, use the above URL and:
replace yourgroovysite.com with your website’s address.
replace category-name with the name of your category.
You can also visit a category page by viewing a blog post on your site as a member of the public and clicking on the category name, typically displayed at the top or bottom of the post.
The design of these category pages is controlled by your site’s theme.
If your theme supports the Site Editor (Appearance → Editor), you can customize the category page design by editing the Archive template.
If a category page displays a message such as “not found” or “nothing found”, no published posts are assigned to that category yet.
After you assign at least one public post to a category, it will appear on the category page.
Edit or Delete Categories
Deleting or editing a category will not delete or modify any posts assigned to that category.
To edit or delete a category follow the steps below.
Visit your site’s dashboard.
Hover your cursor over the name of the category you want to edit or delete.
Click the “Edit” link or the “Delete” link.
Editing a category allows you to change the name, slug, parent category, and description.
Deleting a category is permanent and cannot be undone.
Bulk Delete Categories
If you have a large number of categories that you wish to delete and it would be tedious to delete them one at a time, you can use the bulk delete option.
In your dashboard, navigate to Posts → Categories.
Check the boxes next to the categories you want to delete, or check the box next to “name” to select all but the default category.
In the “Bulk actions” drop-down, select the Delete option.
Click the Apply button to delete the categories.
Use Categories to Get Discovered
People can add specific tags and topics in their WordPress.com Reader for topics they’re interested in following.
Then, when your post uses a category they’ve added to their topics, they’ll see your post in their Reader.
Therefore, assigning tags and categories to your post increases the chance that other WordPress.com users will see your content.
However, you don’t want irrelevant content on the topics listings or search, and neither do we.
That’s why we limit the number of tags and categories used on a public topic listing.
We recommend adding a maximum of 5 to 15 combined categories + tags to each of your posts.
The more categories you use, the less likely your post will be selected for inclusion in the topics listings.
Learn more about Topics here.
Find the Category ID
You may need to provide the Category ID for access restrictions on specific membership plugins or to implement custom CSS on a particular category page.
You can find the category ID by going to Posts → Categories.
Scroll over the category you need a category ID number for, and click the Edit link under the category.
You will be taken to the Edit Category screen.
Then, the Category ID for that category is visible in the page URL after tag-ID at the top of your browser screen:
In the URL, the numbers after “&tag_ID=” are highlighted to show the Category ID.
wordpress.com /support/posts/categories/
Add and Edit Categories in WordPress | WordPress.com Support
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