{"id":1012,"date":"2017-06-01T15:30:20","date_gmt":"2017-06-01T15:30:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/firstsiteguide.com-categories\/"},"modified":"2023-10-04T05:01:58","modified_gmt":"2023-10-04T05:01:58","slug":"wordpress-categories","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/firstsiteguide.com\/wordpress-categories\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Use Categories in WordPress","gt_translate_keys":[{"key":"rendered","format":"text"}]},"content":{"rendered":"
WordPress categories are a way of grouping posts on your WordPress blog<\/a>. They are just one of the taxonomies that WordPress uses to organize content on the website. Since we are talking about taxonomies, this is the perfect time to get acquainted with the term, before you get scared of it. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Basically, that’s all you have to know – taxonomies are a way of grouping things together. You can create as many taxonomies as you need, but that requires custom code or plugins. Default taxonomies, that are used to group posts, are categories and tags.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Even if you are not aware of that, you have already encountered categories on other sites. Usually, they are the central part of navigational menus<\/a>, and they allow you to find content that’s interesting to you. For example, online stores usually have categories that group products that fit into clothes, shoes, technology, art, sport, etc.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Before you start physically adding and managing WordPress categories (which is the easier part), take your time to organize the content in your head and also on the paper. If you’re about to make a website<\/a> with numerous topics of interest, it is crucial that you think about the structure of your site in advance. To follow the same example of an online store, do you need just the clothes category or should you have separate subcategories for shirts, pants, dresses, and so on? We will leave the planning part to you, and focus on how to work with categories and tags in WordPress.<\/p>\n\n\n\nHow to add categories in WordPress<\/h2>\n\n\n