Categories
Categories is under Site Features in the left-hand menu. It holds the list of categories you can tag News and Political News with, and use to filter the homepage feature sections.
Categories are a setup job you do once and then add to occasionally.
Adding a category
- Click Categories in the left-hand menu.
- Click Create New.
- Type the Title — the category name.
- Click Save.
There is no draft. Saving is immediate.
Using them
Categories don't do anything on their own. You assign them when editing a News or Political News item, or an entry in the A-/B-/C-Features or Promo collections — look for the Categories field on that item.
So the order is create the category first, then tag things with it. If a category isn't in the list when you're editing something, it's because it hasn't been created yet.
Documents work differently — they use a free-text Tags field instead of Categories. See Documents and folders.
How many to have
Fewer than you think. Aim for something a visitor could read in one glance — if two categories nearly always get used together, they probably want to be one.
Renaming
Edit the title and save. Everything tagged with it stays tagged — you're changing the label, not the tagging.
Deleting
Deleting removes the category from everything tagged with it. The articles and entries are not deleted — they simply lose that tag.
Check what's using a category before removing it.
Who can do what
Admins, Editors and Authors can create and edit categories. Only Admins and Editors can delete one.
Related
- News
- Political news
- Editing the homepage
- Documents and folders