{"id":408,"date":"2023-02-28T02:22:23","date_gmt":"2023-02-28T02:22:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.webystrata.co.uk\/?p=408"},"modified":"2023-02-28T06:03:41","modified_gmt":"2023-02-28T06:03:41","slug":"wordpress-add-category","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.webystrata.co.uk\/blog\/wordpress-add-category\/","title":{"rendered":"WordPress &#8211; Add Category"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In this chapter, we will study about how to\u00a0<strong>Add Categories<\/strong>\u00a0in WordPress. Category is used to indicate sections of your site and group related posts. It sorts the group content into different sections. It is a very convenient way to organize the posts.<\/p>\n<p>To access the Category section, follows the mentioned steps \u2212<\/p>\n<p><strong>Step (1)<\/strong>\u00a0\u2212 Click on\u00a0<strong>Posts \u2192 Categories<\/strong>\u00a0option in WordPress.<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/manage.webystrata.co.uk\/index.php?rp=\/images\/kb\/166_category.png\" alt=\"WordPress add category\" width=\"1000\" height=\"890\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Step (2)<\/strong>\u00a0\u2212 The\u00a0<strong>Categories<\/strong>\u00a0page is displayed as shown in the following screenshot.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/manage.webystrata.co.uk\/index.php?rp=\/images\/kb\/167_category-1.png\" alt=\"WordPress add category\" width=\"1000\" height=\"419\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Following are the details of the fields on Categories.<\/p>\n<ul class=\"list\">\n<li><strong>Name<\/strong>\u00a0\u2212 Enter the unique name of categories.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Slug<\/strong>\u00a0\u2212 A word chosen to describe your post. It is specified in the tags URL.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Parent<\/strong>\u00a0\u2212 By selecting the parent category from dropdown, you can set the particular category as sub-category or can keep it as None.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Description<\/strong>\u00a0\u2212 Add brief description of your category. It is optional.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Step (3)<\/strong>\u00a0\u2212 After filling all the information about Categories, click on\u00a0<strong>Add New Category<\/strong>\u00a0button.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Step (4)<\/strong>\u00a0\u2212 After clicking on\u00a0<strong>Add New Category<\/strong>, the new created category will get displayed on the right side of the page as shown in the following screen.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/manage.webystrata.co.uk\/index.php?rp=\/images\/kb\/168_category-2.png\" alt=\"WordPress add category\" width=\"1000\" height=\"404\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this chapter, we will study about how to\u00a0Add Categories\u00a0in WordPress. Category is used to indicate sections of your site and group related posts. It sorts the group content into different sections. It is a very convenient way to organize the posts. To access the Category section, follows the mentioned steps \u2212 Step (1)\u00a0\u2212 Click [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":409,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[17],"class_list":["post-408","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-wordpress-complete-tutorials","tag-wordpress-complete-tutorials"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.webystrata.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/408","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.webystrata.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.webystrata.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.webystrata.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.webystrata.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=408"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.webystrata.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/408\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":410,"href":"https:\/\/www.webystrata.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/408\/revisions\/410"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.webystrata.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/409"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.webystrata.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=408"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.webystrata.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=408"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.webystrata.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=408"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}