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Working with Categories and Tags / Creating a New Category
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Alright now, actually going ahead and creating your own Custom Categories for your Blog is super easy and super straightforward. There's a couple of different ways that you can go about creating your own categories. Let me show you sort of the, I guess you could say, the official way to create Categories here. I'm looking at my Dashboard obviously. What I'm going to do is I'll head over to the left-hand side and I'll expand the Posts area, the Posts Module here and I'll look for Categories there underneath Posts. Go ahead and pop that guy open. And we're brought into the Categories screen here and, sure enough, you can see Uncategorized sitting there over on the right-hand side. So this sort of right-hand area here, the top right area anyway, of the Categories screen, will list out for you all of your Categories that you have inside your Blog. OK, so I want to go ahead and create a new Category here with you and my particular Blog has a lot of Flash-related content, so I think what I'll do is I think I'll create a Category called Flash, so inside the Category Name field go ahead and type in Category Name, of course I'm using Flash here and below that it just says here: The name is used to identify the category almost everywhere, for example under the Blog post, which you and I just saw, or in the category widget. Now the category widget is that category area that sits over in the Sidebar of your Blog's Theme. OK, perfect. So there's our Category Name. We pop him in there. And then below that, if I just scroll down a little bit, we have the Category Slug and the slug is the URL version, the URL-friendly version of your category name. And normally it would just contain lowercase letters and numbers and hyphens and things like this; there are no spaces or special characters. Now you can use a Category Slug if you want. I usually don't bother, but you can pop something in there if you want. And then below that we have what's referred to as the Category Parent. Now what's interesting here is we can actually create structure for our categories; in other words, I might create a category called Flash and I want Flash to appear underneath, or within, another category that I've created called Adobe and maybe what I'll do is I'll show you how to do that in just a little while but really, the idea here is that you can actually create category structure, if you want. You can read through this description here if you want kind of a better idea of what this is all about, but it finishes off here by saying that this is completely and totally optional. You don't have to use Category Structure if you don't want to. Alright, below that we have a Description for our category. You might want to type this in if you want. You can do this is you like. I don't really bother with it, but some Themes may show your Category Description if you indeed have included a Description for your particular category. OK, now that we're done here I'm going to go ahead and click on Add Category down at the very bottom there and not a whole lot happens, well seemingly not a whole lot happens, until I scroll back up toward the top and sure enough I can see that Flash has been added to my list of Categories. Fantastic. Now, what I'd like to do next is I think I'd like to create a couple of other quick categories here with you, so, I'm going to click back inside the Category Name field. We can create as many categories as we want, by the way, and I'm going to go and create another category called News and Updates. There we are. OK. And, again, I won't bother with the Category Slug and I won't bother with a Parent or a Description, so I'm just going to scroll all the way down and click on Add Category. And once again the new Category is added to my lit of Categories there in the top right of the Category screen. OK, let's do one more together here. I'm going to do one called Shapes. OK, wonderful. No Slug, no Structure, no Description; Add Category. OK, there we are and there's our Shapes Category. So, as you can see, creating your shapes is super easy, actually applying your Categories to your different posts, well, we'll take a look at that and I also want to talk about that RSS Feed as well, the RSS Feed for your individual Categories and we also have another way to create Categories as well, so we should take a look at that.
Tutorial Information
| Course: | WordPress Blogging |
| Author: | Geoff Blake |
| SKU: | 34118 |
| ISBN: | 1-936334-24-0 |
| Release Date: | 2010-05-11 |
| Duration: | 7 hrs / 98 lessons |
| Work Files: |
Yes |
| Captions: | No |
| Compatibility: |
Vista/XP/2000, OS X, Linux QuickTime 7, Flash 8 |
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